Niall McGuirk on day 2 of his trip to this year's Rebellion Festival in Blackpool
"For some reason I was expecting some bedraggled hipsters and angry twenty somethings with beards who didn’t really know why they were there, but it was wall to wall hair, and that hair was flailing around in a proper, albeit slower than usual, way." - Dara Higgins on Sleep's Button Factory gig last week.
Paul G Smyth and Chris Corsano's 'engaging double-team attack on the senses' leaves an impression on MacDara Conroy
"The thought occurs that it’s an audacious move to casually throw out one of their biggest hits as a set opener, until you remember they have loads of them" says Neill Dougan of Blur's Royal Hospital gig last week.
Aoife Barry hit the road to see Marina and the Diamonds, Miike Snow and Digitalism gig in Carlow, of all places.
'...everything just seems as sparkling and new as the shirt on Womack's back' - Siobhán Kane on Bobby Womack's recent gig at The Olympia Theatre.
'This is 2016 and we are on the Continent after all' - Hugh McCabe recaps his weekend at Barcelona's Primavera Sound
Siobhbán Kane's epic roundup of this year's Primavera Sound festival
Richard Earls headed to Texas for the Austin Psych Fest and sent back some photos.
'There is no possibility of accidently running into the Catalan equivalent of David McWilliams giving a cookery demonstration' - Hugh McCabe on Primavera Sound 2015