• Monday Mixtape: The Bobby Lees

    Ahead of their midnight performance at Whelans on Friday July 1st, Macky from N.Y based rock band The Bobby Lees selects the songs that left an indelible imprint on their lives.  “The older I get I find myself becoming more and more insecure about my seeming inability to make a good playlist. Whether that be from my being paralyzed by choice or, inversely, completely lacking in options I’m not totally sure. In the end the result is generally the same. The cynical takeaway from that opening statement would be that I’m preemptively and covertly apologizing for a potentially anathematic listening…

  • Win Tickets to Fight Like Apes

    Ahead of going on sale tomorrow, we have a pair of tickets to give away to the positively unmissable return of Fight Like Apes, live at 3Oympia Theatre, Dublin on Friday, March 24th 2023. To be in with a chance of snapping them up, simply send your answer to the following question to info@thethinair.net What is the closing song on Fight Like Apes’ debut album Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion? Good luck!

  • Track Record: Arthur Itis

    Cork shapeshifter par excellence Arthur Pawsey, aka Arthur Itis, gives a guided tour to the weird and wonderful wax that have shaped his musical life Photo by Celeste Burdon Dr. Roger Payne – Songs Of The Humpback Whale This is a mega-special sound research album that makes for unreal ambient. Dr. Payne is mad for how animals echolocate, particularly owls and bats. He discovered that certain moths know that bats are screaming at them and can evade being munched. He was the first to record Humpback whale songs. Also you will recognise one of our whale friends from Kate Bush’s…

  • Win Tickets to Invaderband in Belfast

    Blessedly, we have a pair of tickets to give away to see easily one of the island’s finest art-rock propositions, Invaderband, at McHughs in Belfast this Friday, June 17th. Helmed by Adam Leonard, and featuring the likes of TTA favourite Chris McConaghy aka Our Krypton Son, the Derry quartet are rising a fresh wave off the back of their 6Music (and elsewhere)-approved new single ‘Cheese Slices’. Check it below and keep an eye peeled for a video premiere soon. To be in with a chance of catching the band – with support from Selador and Matt McCrum – at McHughs,…

  • Kendrick Lamar Announces Dublin Show

    Kendrick Lamar is set to make his Dublin return. Off the back of his new, critically-acclaimed fifth album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, the trailblazing rapper will play 3Arena on Sunday, November 13. Support on the night comes from Baby Keem and Tanna Leone. Tickets for the show – which marks Lamar’s first show in the city since 2018 – are priced from €70 and go on sale at 12pm on Friday, May 20th here.

  • Monday Mixtape: Aoife Wolf

    Ahead of the release of her single ‘The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol’ on Wednesday, fast-rising psych-folk artist Aoife Wolf gives us a guided tour of some of her all-time favourite songs. Photo by Aaron Cunningham Pixies – Monkeys Gone to Heaven I don’t know when the first time I heard this song was, probably in some nineties coming of age film but I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d ever heard. When I started making music it was always my goal to sound like Pixies. I’m acutely aware of the fact that Aoife Wolf is…

  • Irish Tracks of The Week: 25th March

    Here’s the very best Irish tracks to drop this week, featuring Ciaran Lavery, Axis Of, Niamh Regan, Buí, EFÉ, Fontaines D.C, April, The Wicc, Stomptown Brass, Laytha and more Ciaran Lavery – I Am Old Enough To Know What Love Is Axis Of – Blackcomber EFÉ – KIWI ​​ Buí – Walls Stomptown Brass – Let Me Stay The Wicc – Wolf Fontaines D.C – Skinty Fia Niamh Regan – Late Nights Zaska w/ Jess Kav – Calm Down Laytha – Wavey Gamey Fizzy Orange – Oh Carling! Zapho – Tell Your Mother April – When It Comes To You…

  • SoFFT Nights Reveal 2022 Line-Up

    Lisa O’Neill and Tolü Makay are among the names set to play this year’s SoFFT Nights. Making its return to Dunderry Park in Co. Meath across 4-5th June, the festival will also play host to Elaine Mai (with MayKay and Sinead White), Pastiche, Moxie, Kíla, and Séan Fitzgerald with Lankum’s Daragh Lynch across the weekend. Beyond live music, there will also be activities including astronomy talks, bat walks, shamanic journeying, reggae yoga, sound baths, active imagination workshops, music for young children, and site-specific theatre. “We put on the very first festival in the midst of covid in October 2020 and over the course of…

  • Ten Past Seven & Shifting at Bello Bar

    On Saturday, 5th March, Dublin’s Bello Bar hosts one truly righteous double-bill: Kerry instrumental trio Ten Past Seven with Dublin noise-rock levellers Shifting. After myriad months of being unable to do so, both bands will largely perform music from two of the best released on these shores in 2020: Long Live The Bogwalrus and It Was Good respectively. Limited numbers of vinyl will also be on sale on the night. Tickets are €10 on the door and available here. Newcomer? Not to worry. Check out two new live videos of both bands performing – live in Rory from TP7’s shed no less – below.…