• Irish Tracks of the Week – January 21st

    January 21, 2022 - By 

    January is setting an exhilarating pace for the rest of 2022, and this week has been no different. Here’s our round-up of the best Irish music to drop in the past seven days Pillow Queens – Be By Your Side Silverbacks – Archive Material Archive Material by Silverbacks Dublin – Dublin Dublin by Dublin Inni-K – Éamonn an Chnoic Iníon by Inni-K Jonathan Deasy – Praxis Praxis by Jonathan Deasy D*mp, Curtisy – EP OF SORTS REVOLUTION ABOVE DISORDER – Scream Quietly Scream Quietly by REVOLUTION ABOVE DISORDER AIS – Freedom Junk Drawer – Tears In Costa Niall Brennan –…

  • Caribou Set For Vicar Street Return

    June 30, 2021 - By 

    Caribou is coming back to Vicar Street. The Canadian composer, otherwise Dan Snaith, will return to play Dublin venue on January 19, 2022. Marking the first Caribou show there since 2014 (and what a show it was), it comes a few months ahead of a date at Iveagh Gardens in the summer of 2022. Tickets go on sale on Friday (July 2nd) at 9am.

  • EP Premiere: Poor Petal – zzz

    March 24, 2021 - By 

    After a three year gestation period, Polish-born, Dublin-raised Mateusz Koznik, AKA Poor Petal has only in the last month started to drip-feed his own blend of tripped-out, yet subdued melancholic hip-hop, woozy bedroom pop and lo-fi indie rock, imbued with found sounds and homespun charm. At turns hopeful and inward-looking, debut EP zzz – written, produced & mastered by Poor Petal – horizontally floats and drifts along, picking up, peering at, and ultimately casting aside personal flotsam across its six somnambulant tracks. Mateusz told us more about its creation: “zzz took me almost 3 years to finish. Before this project I was always writing music and making beats, but I felt caged in with my inability…

  • Stream: M(h)aol – Asking For It

    March 18, 2021 - By 

    Given the length of time they’ve been around for in one form or another, it’s hard to believe that M(h)aol had, before today, only released two singles – their last being 2020’s ‘Laundries‘, concerning the historic systematic oppression of women in Ireland. The power and economy in saying precisely what to needs to be said, when it needs to be said, is what has seen the five-piece labelled as the most vital voice in Irish punk – and  post-punk, for that matter – pushing discourse forward with songs as razor-sharp as their message. Currently based between Dublin, London and Bristol, M(h)aol’s new single ‘Asking For It’  – originally set…

  • Fears Announces Debut Album and Releases New Single ‘vines’

    February 25, 2021 - By 

    At long last, one of TTA’s consistent favourite acts of the last few years, experimental pop artist Fears has announced the release of her debut album, Oíche, on Friday, 7th May through TULLE. Accompanying the announcement is the second single taken from it, ‘vines’. Its accompanying video was directed by Fears and shot by Colman Keane, it’s a broadening panorama that perfectly compliments the transformative single. Seamlessly weaving the ancient with the new, and the rural with the familiar, she emerges from the sea, ultimately reaching the 2500 BC Megalithic portal tomb, Ballybrack Dolmen at sunrise. “This place holds particular significance to me” Fears says. “It’s…

  • the arts column: December 2020

    December 17, 2020 - By 

    With 2020 drawing to close (thankfully) we round-up arts-related events on both sides of Christmas in the last edition of the arts column. If you have got an event, talk, exhibition, etc. taking place in the New Year please do get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair[dot]net. And as always: Stay safe, support the arts and look after yourself x Online Exhibition | Pallas Projects + Studios This year marks the 10th iteration of Pallas Project + Studios annual Periodical Review, which while on first glance looks like a traditional group exhibition is instead a cross-section of trends, topics, movements and discussions taking…

  • the arts column: November 2020

    November 22, 2020 - By 

    This week sees the return of the arts column, our round-up off Irish arts events and related news. We’ll be moving this from a weekly to a monthly column and expand our listings to cover as much as we can. In this edition, we’ve got details on Dublin Art Book Fair which launches this week with a number of talks and workshops, info on PhotoIreland’s HALFTONE and Tsundoku, an online art fair from West Cork Arts Centre, as well as details of online exhibitions and projects, podcasts, residencies and virtual tour. If you have got an event, talk, exhibition, etc., please…