• Pizza Pizza Records Present: The Big Slice

    June 26, 2019 - By 

    Dundalk’s indie imprint par excellence, Pizza Pizza Records, will host the first ever The Big Slice on Saturday, July 13th. An all-day, two-stage event bringing together eclectic sounds and culture to the Spirit Store, it finds the label curating a bill “specially to include artists that we really love and we are really excited about having involved.” As well as antiques, vinyl and clothes markets on the day, as well as Pizza Pizza Records DJs and art workshops, the following acts will perform. Best of all, entry is absolutely free.

  • Maija Sofia Announces Debut Album, Releases Lyric Video For ‘Edie Sedgwick’

    June 25, 2019 - By 

    Long a favourite here at The Thin Air, Dublin-based Galway artist Maija Sofia has announced details of her forthcoming debut album, Bath Time. Set for release via Trapped Animal Records in the Autumn, news of the debut comes accompanied with Sofia’s exquisite new single, ‘Edie Sedgwick’. Recorded and mixed by Chris Barry in Alfionn Studio, it’s a typically bewitching effort from the musician, marrying wistful lapsteel lines with sparse guitar, cello and Sofia’s skeletal confessionalism. “The song is about the demise of a relationship that was spiralling beyond anything that I could salvage,” said Sofia. “I wrote it during a summer I spent…

  • Monday Mixtape: HEX HUE

    June 24, 2019 - By 

    In the latest installment of Monday Mixtape, Belfast musician Katie Richardson aka HEX HUE selects a mixture of old and new favourite tracks, from Lykke Li to Christine and the Queens, that have “fed into the HEX HUE story in different ways”. So Sad So Sexy – Lykke Li Lykke Li was the first Scandinavian artist I really remember notably hearing loving. I love how much her sound has changed over the years and she has been a big influence on me – partly just by introducing me to a Geographical world of music that I have consistently fallen more and more…

  • Sheer Mag To Play Dublin

    June 19, 2019 - By 

    What do you mean you don’t love Sheer Mag? Get the hell outta here. For those of you in your right mind, you’ll be glad to know the Philadelphia power-punk quartet will play Dublin’s Grand Social on November 5. Tickets are priced at a ridiculously reasonable €15 and go on sale this Friday (June 21) at 10am.

  • !!! Set For Whelans Show

    June 19, 2019 - By 

    The supremely unGoogleable !!! will play Dublin later this year. Otherwise known as Chk Chk Chk or whatever you want to call them, the Sacramento dance-punk heroes will stop off at Whelans on November 21. The show marks 10 years since they last sold out the venue. Tickets cost €25 and go on sale this Friday (June 28) at 3pm.

  • Squarehead Announce New Album, Release New Single ‘Morning’

    June 19, 2019 - By 

    Hands down one of the country’s very best indie bands, Squarehead have announced details of their long-awaited new album. Six years on from the release of the stellar Respect, Roy Duffy, Ian McFarlane and Ruan Van Vliet will release the aptly-tiled High Time via Strange Brew Records on September 27th. Produced, once again, by Lesley Keye, the album – which is said to reflect the personal growth of the band over the last few years – also features keyboardist Ruadhan O’Meara of Magic Pockets and No Spill Blood. As well as the album’s artwork and tracklisting, stream new single, the…

  • Body/Head Set For Dublin Show

    June 18, 2019 - By 

    Body/Head, the American experimental electric guitar duo comprised of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, will perform in Dublin next month. Kicking off Gordon’s exhibition ‘She bites her tender mind’ – which runs in the building’s Courtyard Galleries from July 27-November 10 – the pair will play The Irish Museum of Modern Art on July 27. The performance takes place as part of An Evening With Kim Gordon, which will also poet Elaine Kahn and guitar Heather Leigh. Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, June 19th at 9am, priced €25.00.

  • Premiere: Little Gem Band – Corolla Pinions

    June 19, 2019 - By 

    It’s a fact universally acknowledged that many of the country’s finest forward-pushing acts exist somewhere right on the periphery. Fronted by Andy Walsh, Dublin’s Little Gem Band – a self-proclaimed coming-together of “Earth based creators of music cosmiche” – are one such act. Eponymously named at the city’s independent record label and shop, the band will release a new LP, Friyay 13, both digitally and via limited edition pink cassette on June 21st. Recorded at Jigsaw and mastered by Stephen Quinn at Analog Heart, it will be launched at Jigsaw on the same date, with support from MaryCarl Luyos and School Tour.…

  • Sleater-Kinney Set For Dublin Show

    June 14, 2019 - By 

    Olympia, Washington trio Sleater-Kinney will play Dublin next year. Set to release their St. Vincent-produced ninth studio album, The Centre Won’t Hold, in August, Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss will stop off at Vicar Street on March 1st, 2020. The band last played the venue in 2015 as part of their No Cities To Love tour. Tickets for their show next March go on sale on Friday, June 21st at 10am, priced €33.65.

  • Watch: No Oil Paintings – Something Like The Truth

    June 14, 2019 - By 

    Two years on from the release of their well-received second EP, Too Close to the Sun, fast-rising Belfast quartet No Oil Paintings have returned with their most emphatic single to date, ‘Something Like the Truth’. Across four minutes of ascending, fist-clenched intent, the harmony-driven ‘Something Like the Truth’ firmly positions the four-piece as one of Ireland’s finest, most forward-pushing alternative folk outfits. Accompanied by a stellar video courtesy of By Elephant, the single is equal parts equal parts socio-political and earworming gem focusing on the increasing lack of humanity in modern society. Bolstered by the soaring backing vocals courtesy of brothers…