Technology and hyperanxiety have diluted the dissident power of pop music

This stage version of Terri Hooley’s story makes the transition from film with style

The English duo on why they’re doing their electronic manoeuvres with the lights out

Finbar Furey on growing up in `Ballyer', appearing on Top of the Pops and how the Beatles wanted his uileann pipes

Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS

Mancunian anti-hero fine-tuned the world, distorting and damaging its aesthetic veneer

Mark E Smith obituary: Born March 5th, 1957 – Died January 24th, 2018

Smith fronted The Fall since 1976, going through over 60 bandmates in the process but they were always at the cutting edge

Bananarama were the biggest girl group of the1980s. Can Siobhan, Keren and Sara recapture their glory days?

To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, here are 30 women who are shaping Irish life

A new exhibition about the decade celebrates Britain when it was at its most thrilling

St John’s warm, deep voice is the closest amalgam you’ll hear of Nick Drake and Nico

The Turner Prize winner describes the moment 10 years ago when her pioneering video art took a new, fascinating turn

Mick Lynch: October 11th, 1959 - December 17th, 2015

The late John Peel’s BBC ‘sessions’ over 37 years are pored over in this exhaustive, thrilling and humorous analysis of an uncompromising tastemaker

RM Hubbert’s music comes from the sort of tragedy that would have an ‘X Factor’ contestant slack-jawed with envy

Furey is back on the road after a period of grieving for his brother, and an injury that could have put him out of business as a piper. Catch him while you can

Godfather of punk hits out at modern music industry but empathises with ‘abandoned’ fans

On the cusp of super-stardom, Hozier reveals all to Una Mullally

The Leeds band have so far enjoyed success without the crushing fame - but now that they're on Miley Cyrus's rader they can kiss all that goodbye . . .

Attitude, not age, key to reaching young listeners, says ex-BBC Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt

Paul Howard chats to ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ collaborator Gerry Harrison about Tara Browne (the reputed subject of ‘A Day in the Life’), 1967 and LSD

Account of growing up in Manchester is beautiful, but real focus will be on relationship with man

Peace in the North is an uneasy stasis, not the real thing

It may have an anchor to the past, but Savages are blaringly of today – and Gemma Thompson and Jehn Beth are having an absolute rrriot

Richard Dormer, star of new film Good Vibrations, talks Northern punk, his passion for acting and the day he met Hurricane Higgins