• EP Download: Hot Cops – #1 Babes

    January 26, 2015 - By 

    Few young bands excel at their respective genre as convincingly as Belfast-based indie-rock trio Hot Cops. Set to play our Independent Venue Week show at Oh Yeah Centre on Friday night, the band have just unveiled their new release, #1 Babes, a four-track EP of cunningly off-kilter, slacker-soaked anti-anthems that instantly evoke their main influences in Pavement, Deerhunter and Cloud Nothings. The EP was recorded by the band’s bassist Nathan Rodgers and mixed/mastered by Chris Ryan. Stream/download it (for free, if you so like) via Bandcamp below. #1 Babes by Hot Cops

  • Val Normal – Fly The White Flag of War

    January 25, 2015 - By 

    The importance of editing should never be underestimated. It takes a lot for a person in any creative medium to step outside themselves and be able to recognize that, while you may be intensely proud of what you’ve made, some of it needs to be cut off to save the rest; a kind of apoptosis. Never forget that, while a cheeky wee guitar solo can be essential, after a point it’s just diminishing returns. It’s nigh on impossible to count the number of genuinely interesting prog rock songs that have been lost to unwieldy length and arrogance on the part…

  • Run the Jewels @ Opium Rooms, Dublin

    December 22, 2014 - By 

    Possibly the most anticipated gig all year, Run the Jewels aka Killer Mike and El-P lived up to the hype and put on a killer performance in the Opium Rooms last night, with support from GodKnows + mynameisjOhn. You can read our full review of the show in our January issue of The Thin Air magazine. Photos by Colm Moore.

  • AAA: September Girls @ Bello Bar, Dublin

    December 2, 2014 - By 

    In this installment of AAA (Access All Areas) we spent Friday evening with September Girls for the launch of their new EP Veneer at the Bello Bar in Dublin, a particular favourite venue of the band. Support on the night came from Squarehead and Sissy. Check out the gallery before for more great photos by Joe Laverty.

  • Little Hours w/ Bairbre Anne @ The Sugar Club, Dublin

    December 1, 2014 - By 

    Serving up a sumptous set of folk-pop sound, the up-and-coming Little Hours delighted Dublin’s Sugar Club with their first headlining gig and eponymous EP launch on Thursday evening. The Donegal duo dazzled the house with a fresh array of work that’s garnered them a worthy following since the release of their first single ‘It’s Still Love’ in June, including a respectable line-up of support acts to play their momentous evening as well. The show was a night of new artists who toil, and an impressive one, at that. Kicking off the evening’s line-up was Dublin’s own Bairbre Anne, promoting new…