• The Menzingers Set For Irish Dates

    August 14, 2017 - By 

    Pennsylvanian punk rock quartet The Menzingers will kick off a European tour in the New Year with a brace of Irish dates. Culminating in Amsterdam in mid-February, the tour – which will feature support from PUP and Cayetana – will see the foursome play Dublin’s Whelan’s on January 28 and Belfast’s Limelight 2 the following night, January 29. Tickets for the shows go on sale this Friday at 9am. The Menzingers released their fifth studio album, After the Party, at the start of the year. Stream it below.

  • Dublin Quays Festival Announced Festival Venue Breakdown

    August 11, 2017 - By 

    With its aim of “providing a programme of events that catches the imagination of the public, while also giving artists and emerging talent a platform to engage with along the river” Dublin Quays Festival will make its inaugural outing across August 17-20. Taking place in The Workmans Club, The Sound House, The Liquor Rooms, The Grand Social, The Wiley Fox, Sin E and Bagots Hutton, the free, four-day music, art and spoken word festival will host the likes of Squarehead, Old Hannah, Cat Dowling, Birds Of Olympus, Maria Kelly, Fiction Peaks, Kelly-Anne Byrne, Super Silly and Orchid Collective in the aforementioned…

  • Stream: Pat Dam Smyth – Goodbye Berlin

    August 11, 2017 - By 

    The follow-up to the masterfully mournful ‘Juliette’ – a single relaying the tale of a woman attempting to escape an abusive relationship released back in April – ‘Goodbye Berlin’ by Belfast’s Pat Dam Smyth is a song that tackles “being a kid and disappearing down the rock and roll rabbit hole”. Bounding with the raconteur’s inimitable words of wanderlust and genre-bending brand of incisive indie-folk, it’s a sweet tale that “recalls a time where music had pushed him to the brink, defining his relationship with both his past and his future, and the dominant force that songs have always played in…

  • Album Stream: Frankenstein Bolts – Aglow & Spark

    August 11, 2017 - By 

    Wexford duo Frankenstein Bolts are a rare breed indeed. Released off the back of a successful crowdfunding campaign, their new – second full-length studio – album Aglow & Spark finds the pair invoking subtly enraptured brilliance across nine tracks of slickly-produced, wonderfully-realised dream-pop that evokes everyone from Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and The Radio Dept. to fellow Irish acts exmagician, Documenta and SlowPlaceLikeHome. From the streamlined Motorik groove and intoxicated reminiscence of opener ‘Land & Water’ to the balmy electro-pop of closer ‘Short Term Memory’, the album is a confident and bewitching release that will surely rank up there with the best Irish releases…

  • Watch: Montauk Hotel – Sense of Place

    August 10, 2017 - By 

    Five months on from the release of the debut EP – a release we said contained a “real earworming charm” – Dublin quartet Montauk Hotel have unveiled the video to their new sense ‘Sense of Place’. Nicely straddling the line between indie jangle and straight-up pop, the song – their foursome’s strongest and most confident effort to date – is accompanied by a video courtesy the band’s vocalist Claudia Verdecchia. Montauk Hotel launch the single upstairs in Whelan’s on Saturday, with support coming from Beauty Sleep and Exiles. Have yourself a Facebook event page.

  • #CorkLovesMusic Announces Youth and Music Series

    August 10, 2017 - By 

    Organised in association with Cork YMCA and GroundFloor Productions, #CorkLovesMusic has announced its forthcoming Youth and Music series, the first in a string of talk and performance events aimed at younger musicians and prospective music professionals. Taking place in the heart of Cork City, upstairs in the historic YMCA building on Marlboro street on the afternoon of August 19th, experimental foursome God Alone, young folk outfit Sewing Club, Outsiders Entertainment and Rapha will all perform. As well as this, some local music industry pros including rapper Spekulative Fiktion, Eilís Dillon and Overblown’s Jamie Coughlan will all impart some invaluable words…

  • Watch: Wyvern Lingo – I Love You Sadie

    August 10, 2017 - By 

    Back in June we shared ‘I Love You Sadie’, the latest – and quite possibly finest – single from Bray alt-pop threesome Wyvern Lingo. Having called it “another instant gem bursting at the seams with the threesome’s slick marriage of exquisite, RnB-inflected harmonies, groove-laden patterns and their collective ear for a killer hook” we’re pleased to share the track’s slick new video courtesy of Louise Gaffney (who, as you might well know, is also a member of Come On Live Long). One of the Irish songs of the summer? Easily.

  • EP Stream: Music For Dead Birds – Nail & Tooth

    August 9, 2017 - By 

    Long favourites of ours here at The Thin Air, Galway experimental folk twosome Jimmy Monaghan and Dónal Walsh AKA Music For Dead Birds are a band whose lo-fi craft would not have been out of place on the roster of Sam Berger’s Homestead Records in the early 90s. Having first appeared on our radar back in 2011 via The Pope’s Sister – an album we said conjured the likes of Sebadoh and Polvo – the pair have drip-fed a series of releases in the interim, most recently 2015’s Your Brand New Life. New EP Nail & Tooth both marks the band’s 10th year in…

  • Another Love Story Add Final Additions

    August 9, 2017 - By 

    Presented by Happenings and Homebeat, Another Love Story have added the final acts for its fourth annual outing at Killyon Manor in Co. Meath next weekend (August 18-20) With the likes of Katie Kim, Bantum, Tomorrows, ELLLL, Replete, Beach, I Am The Cosmos, Hilary Woods and Overhead, The Albatross already confirmed, David Kitt with Margie Jean Lewis and Jape, Love Olympics, Ships, Seen Your Video, Floor Staff, Vanishing Lakes, MKAI, as well as a host of talks and happenings also round off the bill for 2017. With weekend tickets sold out, some Sunday tickets are still available to buy here. Here’s the full line-up. We’ll be DJing in the Big Stretchy from 14.15-15.00…

  • And So I Watch You From Afar Set For Irish Tour in December

    August 8, 2017 - By 

    North Coast instrumental rock heroes And So I Watch You From Afar have announced they will play four Irish dates in December. Having recently recorded their forthcoming fifth studio album in the States, the band – who are also setting off on a huge European and UK tour across October and November – will play the following dates at the tail-end of the year: December 28: Academy, Dublin December 29: Garbo’s, Castlebar, Co. Mayo December 30: Cyprus Avenue, Cork December 31: Roisin Dubh, Galway Tickets go on sale tomorrow.