Following his support of Bruno Mars at 3Arena on Sunday, April 30, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals will perform a special live PA at Dublin’s Academy. Head’s up: the appearance is a short, three-song set including a DJ set. Still worth it, right? Tickets, which are priced at €26 (inc. booking fee) go on sale Thursday at 10am. Sitting on the fence? Watch this.
Wicklow based ambient hip-hop duo Gumshoe have returned with ‘Forgotten Weapons’, their fourth release since they breezed into existence last year. The track is another glistening slice of spacious, throbbing electronics and sliced up vocal samples. The pair’s penchant for lush atmosphere is once again on display here as it was on their previous cuts ‘Yom Kippur’ and ‘Ninbasu’. It is accompanied by a suitably trippy and at points unnerving video directed by Sean Gallagher and starring Miriam Keegan. As she ventures through an eery forest, a darkened house and a hallucinatory mental landscape, the haunting flutes and bass create a sizzling…
Set to play their first live show of 2017 at new-fangled Dublin festival SPECTRUM on Saturday, “post-nothing” duo White Collar Boy talk to Brian Coney about progression, their forthcoming new album and the importance of festivals like SPECTRUM. Go here to buy Full Weekend Tickets to SPECTRUM or here to buy Tickets to the White Collar Boy gig. Your debut album, Permanent Haze, is set for release later this year. How was the writing process for the release? Most of the tracks on the record have been kicking around for the past few years and slowly developed into more finished cuts at our space…
Tomorrow – Wednesday, March 8 – The Thin Air staff will be participating in Strike 4 Repeal so we shall refrain from posting and sharing content in solidarity with the Repeal the 8th movement. As the strike also coincides with International Women’s Day, to mark the occasion we have compiled a 100 track, 6-and-a-half-hour playlist celebrating the many incredibly talent female performers our island has to offer from Lisa Hannigan, Heathers, Hvmmingbird, Saint Sister, Roisin Murphy, ELLLL, Naoise Roo, Die Hexen and BARQ to Aoife Underwater, LYRA, Nina Hynes, September Girls, Jealous of the Birds, DOTT, Sleep Thieves, EVVOL, Wounded Healer,…
Last week, we premiered the video for Dublin experimental jazz-punk outfit Tongue Bundle‘s track ‘Bobby’, the first to be revealed from their forthcoming album Peppery Talk. Now, with the album set to drop this Saturday March 4th, the group have unveiled yet another teaser in the form of ‘Now That Album’s Funny/No Plans Bastard’. The sample-heavy frenzy, reminiscent of The Books, Air and the dark, tripping urbanity of UK dub outlier Burial is yet another startling cut from an album that is shaping up to be one of the most interesting to come out of the country this year. Tongue Bundle will launch Peppery Talk on March 4th in The…
Having bonded over their love of North Coast post-rock machine And So I Watch You From Afar, Belfast-based “math-punk” duo Charlie Cairns and Danny McClelland WASPS released their debut single, ‘Godzilla is Dead’ back in December. Three months on, the pair are back with ‘Future Endeaours’, a three minute burst fusing almost ballad-like heart with zealous, intricate instrumentalism. The single is released on March 17 and launched at their first headline show at Voodoo in Belfast on March 18. Have a first listen below.
The Answer kicked off their Irish Tour at the Limelight in Belfast with support from Maverick then down to the Academy in Dublin. Photos by Liam Kielt and Lucy Foster.
Last week Dave Longstreth, founder of American indie outliers Dirty Projectors, made an announcement; “It’s been 4 years, 7 months and 11 days – long enough.” With that Dirty Projectors, the most revealing album of the project’s discography, was shared online three days earlier than its original release date. Everything about Dirty Projectors is new, it signifies a journey of coming to terms with a new identity. Longstreth is solo – both professionally and personally – for the first time since the infancy of this project, which he began in 2003. None of the previous members of the band are present…
Featuring a triumvirate of Italian artists, Riccardo Giacconi, Invernomuto and Luca Trevisani, with guest curation by fellow Italian Manuela Pacella, Lost in Narration is an exciting new exhibition on in Belfast’s The MAC. While the players may be of Italian origin, the subject matter leaves the confines of Europe and discuss events in Columbia, Jamaica, Ethiopia and Kenya. Though the individual narratives within each project are disparate, a continuity across the work prevails, and one that is reinforced through their research lead practices. Lost in Narration continues until June 18th, with more info available here.