• Irish Tracks of the Week – 17th February

    February 17, 2023 - By 

    It’s been another stacked week for Irish music. Here’s the best singles and albums released over the last seven days, featuring Lemonade Shoelace, New Pagans, Iona Zajac, Caoilian Sherlock, Alpha Chrome Yayo, The Wood Burning Savages and more Lemonade Shoelace – Hopscotch In The Sky Alpha Chrome Yayo – All Aboard All Aboard by Alpha Chrome Yayo ​ Iona Zajac – Rubbish Jubilee Caoilian Sherlock – Candidate Candidate by Caoilian Sherlock The Wood Burning Savages – Hand to Mouth Hand to Mouth by The Wood Burning Savages Cobra Truth – Two Lovely Little Pets Henry Likely – Handover Sloucho – Everything/Readymade…

  • Track Record: Dan Walsh (Fixity)

    February 14, 2023 - By 

    In this installment of Track Record, Cork-based multi-instrumentalist Dan Walsh selects the records that have left a lasting impression on his life from The Spotnicks to Steve Kuhn. Photos by John Sheehy The Spotnicks – Spotlight in the Spotnicks Swedish surf rock with spaceman costumes. Absolutely ideal. These guys used radio waves to connect their wireless guitars back in the 1960s. They also put together surf versions of local folks songs when touring the world. Heroes. Bruce Haack – Electric Lucifer Bruce Haack is a big deal and rocks hard with his powerful machines. An incredibly ambitious album for its time…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 10th February

    February 10, 2023 - By 

    Here’s the very best music released across the island this week, featuring Lisa O’Neill, Gilla Band, Chalk, Erica Cody, Badhands and more Lisa O’Neill – All Of This Is Chance All Of This Is Chance by Lisa O’Neill Gilla Band – Sports Day Pôt-pot – A4 A4 by pôt-pot Erica Cody – Cry Baby Chalk – Static Badhands – Movie Nights Derek Ellard and The Future Business – Three Sheets To The Wind Neosupervital – Back To What

  • Gibraltar: The Gates of Hell. Twinned with Ballymena

    February 8, 2023 - By 

    Like every fervently masturbating gamer with a penchant for online poker, a nappy and a shut-in level of social ineptitude – I’ve become a retail trader of stocks. The gamification of finance on apps like eToro has made it such that you can easily understand the white sheets (if you can be bothered to read them) and you can doomscroll the comments for ‘picks’ and to remind yourself that men are the literal worst. ‘Bears’ or ‘Bulls’ adds a beautiful homoerotic wink to the pink-sword measuring duel that is the world of online traders. There’s a cosmic explosion anytime a…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 3rd February

    February 3, 2023 - By 

    On this, the first Bandcamp Friday of 2023, delve into the very best Irish releases of the week, featuring Lankum, M(h)aol, Pretty Happy, Elaine Howley, White Sage, Gurriers, Trá Pháidín, Swimmers Jackson and more M(h)aol – Attachment Styles Attachment Styles by M(h)aol Lankum – Go Dig My Grave Pretty Happy – Conn Boxing White Sage – Car Park Space Jazz Car Park Space Jazz by White Sage Gurriers – Approachable Banrion – Dare to Crush dare to crush by banríon Swimmers Jackson – Stripped Away Stripped Away (Radio Edit) by Swimmers Jackson Elaine Howley – Mark It X Daniel Luke –…

  • The ddr. Radio Logs. Entry #1: Why Radio?

    February 2, 2023 - By 

    In the first of a new monthly series by residents of Dublin Digital Radio, exploring their practice and the craft of radio-making, ddr. co-founder and Time Slip host Seán Finnan asks: “Why radio?” As of this month, Dublin Digital Radio is starting a new column in The Thin Air. Each month, the radio logs will focus on a different resident who contributes to the ever-expanding range of music and sound that has found a home on the station’s stream. Our approach to the column will aim to be as varied as the attitudes to radiomaking found on our platform; residents,…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 27th January

    January 27, 2023 - By 

    Taking in every corner of the island, here’s the very best tracks of the week from This Ship Argo, Perlee, Meltybrains, Myles McCormack, Ailsha and more This Ship Argo – Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks by This Ship Argo Perlee – Lampshade Meltybrains? – You Myles McCormack – To Better All Things To Better All Things by Myles McCormack Jam Hades – The Edge Jam Hades · The Edge Of Regret Ailsha – Sucker Stoat – Let’s Be Strangers Seba Safe – Afterlife

  • The Lay of the Land: A Catch-Up With Landless

    January 24, 2023 - By 

    Ahead of their highly-anticipated headline slot at Letterkenny Trad Week this Friday (27th January) we chat to Landless about their upcoming second album, ten years of their world-beating unaccompanied traditional folk and the contemporary trad folk landscape of Ireland. Hi Landless. We last talked back in 2018, off the back of featuring you as our 18 for ’18 artists. Lockdown notwithstanding, you’ve covered some sizable ground in the in-between. Can you sum up how the last five years have been for you, collectively? Ruth Clinton: The last five years have been a blur of house moves, babies, study, work, and then of…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 20th January

    January 20, 2023 - By 

    It’s a real red letter day for Irish music, with new music from some Ireland’s finest acts. Check out our pick of them, featuring Lisa O’Neill, Arborist, New Pagans, Frog of Earth, David Kitt, CMAT, Danny Carroll, Ailbhe Reddy, Hands Up Who Wants To Die, No Spill Blood and more. Lisa O’Neill – Silver Seed Arborist – Dreaming In Another Language CMAT – Mayday Robbie Stickland – Time To Say Goodbye To My Old Self Time To Say Goodbye To My Old Self by Robbie Stickland Hands Up Who Wants To Die – L’inconnue New Pagans – There We Are John No Spill Blood –…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 13th January

    January 13, 2023 - By 

    The first new track drop of 2023 already has already provided a few gems, with fresh cuts from exciting new records from M(h)aol, Meltybrains, modernlove and many more. Mhaol – Therapy Meltybrains? – Ease That Mind Curtisy x Cillian – 7PM Five to Two w/ JarJarJr – Song 50,000 modernlove. – Ruin Your Night Somebody’s Child – I Need Ya Abe Soare – Oasis