• Irish Tracks of the Week – 18th July

    July 18, 2025 - By 

    Another fully stacked week. Here’s our pick of the best new Irish music, featuring fresh cuts from Rún, Patrick Kelleher, The Redneck Manifesto, Bricknasty, Iona Zajac, Data.Soul, Our Krypton Son, Exhalers, Tebi Rex’s curtain call, Kormac & Katie Kim’s new collaboration, an essential Luxury / Feral Torch split — and the title track from President Michael D. Higgins’ debut spoken word album. Michael D. Higgins & Myles O’Reilly – Against All Certainty Rún – Strike It Iona Zajac – Anton Patrick Kelleher – Solar Wind Solar Wind by Patrick Kelleher The Redneck Manifesto – Off The Hook Grushy by The…

  • Féile Na Gréine Unveil 2025 Line-Up

    July 18, 2025 - By 

    More than just returning, Féile Na Gréine is set to roar back into Limerick next month with a line-up and programme that further cements its place as one of Ireland’s most vital DIY institutions. Running from August 15th-17th, the 2025 edition will once again transform the city into a three-day trail of underground sounds, communal energy and fiercely independent spirit. From art spaces and craft breweries to churches and alleyways, the festival’s city-spanning approach remains as refreshingly unorthodox, and beautifully rooted, as ever. This year’s line-up underscores the festival’s boundary-pushing ethos: from the Connemara-inspired shoegaze of Maria Somerville and the…

  • Premiere: Our Krypton Son – Blue Skies Over Curlew

    July 17, 2025 - By 

    If you’ve spent any time with The Thin Air over the past decade and a bit, chances are you’ll be familiar with our long-standing appreciation of Derry artist Chris McConaghy, better known as Our Krypton Son. Since the release of his self-titled debut back in 2012 – a record that remains one of the most quietly devastating and fully-formed debut albums to ever emerge from the North –  McConaghy has continued to carve out a singular path. With Fleas & Diamonds and Modern Ruins, he didn’t just build on that early promise: he expanded it into something deeper and more…

  • Rún Summon Second Single ‘Strike It’

    July 16, 2025 - By 

    Rún’s second single is here, and with it, any lingering sense of mystery around their potential (which was quite literally nil, to be fair) dissolves into something far more powerful. Out now via Rocket Recordings, ‘Strike It’ is a possessed, slow-burning marvel: sludge bass, sky-splitting force and Tara Baoth Mooney’s incantatory vocals summoning something ancient, unholy and vital. Clocking in at under five minutes, it’s a masterclass in widescreen tension and release, capturing a band in full psychic bloom. The single lands two months after the seismic arrival of ‘Terror Moon’ and ahead of their performance at the always unmissable…

  • Bob Dylan Announces Irish Dates

    July 11, 2025 - By 

    Bob Dylan has announced a string of Irish dates for the end of the year, including his first Belfast shows in over 20 years. As part of his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour, Dylan will stop off at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on 19th and 20th November, Gleneagle Arena in Killarney on 23rd and 24th of November, and a makes a return to Dublin’s 3Arena on 25th November. Tickets go on sale at 10am next Friday, 18th July. Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour has been rolling since 2021, and at 84, he’s still taking it on…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 11th July

    July 11, 2025 - By 

    We gently implore you to check out Poor Creature’s highly-anticipated debut album All Smiles, remixes of ØXN’s Cruel Mother by DROKK and Ben Frost, the latest single from NewDad’s just-announced second LP, essential new NewDad, Talos & Olafur Arnalds, Fierce Shook and more. Poor Creature – All Smiles Tonight All Smiles Tonight by Poor Creature ØXN – Cruel Mother Remixes ØXN – Cruel Mother by ØXN Hamer Place – All That I Knew Was Blue All That I Knew Was Blue by Hamer Place NewDad – Rooibos Talos and Ólafur Arnalds – A Dawning Fierce Shook – Up and Down…

  • The Thin Air Podcast: Laurie Shaw

    July 10, 2025 - By 

    In this episode, the final in the series, we meet Laurie Shaw. Laurie’s been producing albums at a prolific rate for many many years and in this interview, we talked about the 2022 release Sceptre, focusing on the album’s lead single ‘Captain’s Log’. A loose, swashbuckling song, ‘Captain’s Log’ gave us an opportunity to chat about Laurie’s approach to DIY recording, how he visualises his albums, and when all’s said and done – trying not to be worried about it too much. You can support Laurie’s music here: https://laurieshawofficial.bandcamp.com/ Tracklisting: 1. Captain’s Log 2. S Club Party (by S Club…

  • Irish Tracks of the Week – 4th July

    July 4, 2025 - By 

    It’s Friday so that means yet another week of incredible Irish tracks, from For Those I Love to Efa O’Neill’s Place:Ireland compilation plus new releases from Laurie Shaw, Pebbledash, Lōwli, Padraig Cooney & Bedtime Now, Stoat, Cruel Sister and more. For Those I Love – No Scheme Various Artists – Place: Ireland Place: Ireland by Place: Laurie Shaw – Magnetosphere Magnetosphere by Laurie Shaw Stoat – I Contain Multitudes I contain multitudes by Stoat HBE.UK + Moonfish + Leo Miyagee – Vintage Chaos Pebbledash – Cartography Cartography by Pebbledash Pádraig Cooney & Bedtime Now – The Hardest Thing The Hardest…