James McGovern and Damien Tuit of the Dublin-formed group speak to Louis Chilton about their shapeshifting third album, Irish solidarity with Palestine, and the argument in LA that nearly broke up the ...

Wrapping up its 32nd year this weekend, the annual Noise Pop Festival fills nightclubs and music venues across San Francisco with sold-out shows by Soccer Mommy, Nick Lowe and Los Straightjackets and ...

Crystalline in their vision and masterful in their execution, BIIRD have spent their first year absolutely soaring. On St ...

Colm Dalton, from County Kerry, is on a mission to visit every Irish pub in the world and has so far made it to 97 pubs in 47 countries. He documents his travels on his Publican Enemy blog and it ...

Three suspects are still at large after 12 people were injured in a shooting at a pub in Toronto, police in the Canadian city say. The shooting took place at 22:39 on Friday local time (03:39 GMT ...

Or to watch acts that rarely tread the circuit. This year saw some exceptions: the sublime Gilles Peterson headlines the opening night and a day later Lankum play a wonderful show in the cavernous ...

It’s palpable in the wide-angled soundscape of Lankum, in the glorious voice of Ríoghnach Connolly and in Cathy Jordan’s left-field explorations of the crankie box. It’s there too ...

Police have opposed an application by a Sheffield pub to have its licence reinstated following an incident that allegedly involved a gun. Concerns about violent crime, grooming and drug dealing ...

There wasn’t anything in Sheffield, around where I live, but I was very, very familiar with Harry Cox’s singing, and I found this recording of him in the pub. He did a bit of an interview ...

The man suspected of fatally shooting his wife outside a Kent pub on Valentine's Day is believed to have died in the River Thames. Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough, was killed in Knockholt near The Three ...