KETTAMA is riding high off the back of a supersized summer of touring with an impending debut album about to drop. The Irish artist's emotive bangers and rejection of subtlety has made him arguably ...

Louth comedy lovers are spoiled for choice this Bank Holiday weekend. The El Paso Comedy Club presents Karl Spain in Toale’s ...

A good techno track can appear incredibly simple, but techno is not necessarily a simple genre to produce. From club-moving subs to subtly shifting percussion, there's a lot of nuance and skill that ...

Last time, using the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival as a subject, I considered the question, "Why do festivals enrich a region?" Festivals are not merely traditional events. They function as social ...

While a mixing console may initially seem like an impenetrable maze of buttons, sliders and knobs, it’s actually a very simple to understand ‘what you see is what you get’ machine when you get down to ...

Fifty years after the release of their eponymous debut album, Queen retains a space near the epicenter of pop culture. It’s not just that guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are preparing to ...

At the height of Led Zeppelin’s fame in 1975, Robert Plant called himself a “golden god,” a phrase he delivered with his tongue firmly in cheek. In the nearly 50 years since he uttered those words, ...

When The Jesus and Mary Chain exploded onto the scene in the mid-’80s they were initially dogged by notoriety, which saw the band led by brothers Jim and William Reid dubbed as “the new Sex Pistols.” ...

There aren’t many who don’t know at least a little about who Ed Sheeran is. With his own album sales totalling over 200 million, and having written/collaborated with the likes of Taylor Swift, One ...

July 10, 2026: The Flange & Frigate #393 - It's Organic On today's Flange & Frigate Show with DJ GeorgyGirl, I've got some mighty organs for you! Stop sniggering in the back, you saucy thing. I mean ...

Warhol had been looking for an underground rock group to use in his multimedia shows, was intrigued by their name and persona (though he soon re-christened them the Velvets), and was impressed enough ...

One of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll, Bo Diddley's innovative pounding and hypnotic, Latin-tinged beat, his vast array of electric custom-built guitars, his use of reverb, tremelo and ...