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Pat Nevin: I was the normal one, it was the rest of football that was weird
‘It’s okay to be an outsider. You can still have a football career without having to fit in’
Joan Armatrading: ‘I’ve had people say I’m too black, or not black enough’
The singer-songwriter has been doing extraordinary things ever since she arrived in Britain alone aged 6
Stano: Anthology review – a true blue maverick who never got his due
Irish music in the 1980s wasn’t all U2, as this collection of improvised electronica proves
The Strokes: The New Abnormal review – Pleasantly disappointing
The New Yorkers finally make another good album, but not as good as the first two
Kraftwerk: Düsseldorf’s electronic heartbeat
How did a 1970s prog-rock band reinvent popular music in the image of the machine?
Louis Theroux: My guilt about Jimmy Savile
When Theroux met Savile’s once-underage ex, he thought, That’s what happened in the ’60s
Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81
Pioneering musician was known for 1962 hit Misirlou, the theme from Pulp Fiction
Vox fanzine: Dark dispatches from Dublin’s post-punk scene
The cult Dublin fanzine celebrated a grim, golden age of originality and ambition
Last Train to Hilversum review: detail and trivia tuned to magic of radio
Charlie Connelly celebrates radio culture as a means of reaching out to a bigger world
It's 2019 so prepare for the end-of-decade rankings
Donald Clarke: Come the post-Brexit woes, we’ll all love a good round-up, right?
How Pete Shelley and the Buzzcocks invented indie
The Manchester band’s first release reshaped pop music. With no industry support, they pressed and sold the EP themselves, and kickstarted a revolution
No more heroes: how music stopped meaning everything
Technology and hyperanxiety have diluted the dissident power of pop music
Good Vibrations review: Fast pace, high energy and sardonic good humour
This stage version of Terri Hooley’s story makes the transition from film with style
Autechre: ‘Something happens when you listen to music in the dark’
The English duo on why they’re doing their electronic manoeuvres with the lights out
Finbar Furey: When we walked in, people went ‘What in the name of Jaysus is this!’
Finbar Furey on growing up in `Ballyer', appearing on Top of the Pops and how the Beatles wanted his uileann pipes
Franz Ferdinand are a band reborn
Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS
Mark E Smith: bingo masters, witch trials and totally wired, his genius remembered
Mancunian anti-hero fine-tuned the world, distorting and damaging its aesthetic veneer
Musican, poet and satirist, Mark E Smith was driving force of The Fall
Mark E Smith obituary: Born March 5th, 1957 – Died January 24th, 2018
Mark E Smith: passionate, occasionally psychotic high priest of post-punk
Smith fronted The Fall since 1976, going through over 60 bandmates in the process but they were always at the cutting edge
Bananarama are back: `It was every bit as intense as a marriage, but without the sex'
Bananarama were the biggest girl group of the1980s. Can Siobhan, Keren and Sara recapture their glory days?
30 Irish women you need to know
To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, here are 30 women who are shaping Irish life
London Letter: Brexit recalls rebel spirit of the 1960s
A new exhibition about the decade celebrates Britain when it was at its most thrilling
Bridget St John - Fly High review: deceptively lovely combination
St John’s warm, deep voice is the closest amalgam you’ll hear of Nick Drake and Nico
Elizabeth Price, the woman who gave video art a good name
The Turner Prize winner describes the moment 10 years ago when her pioneering video art took a new, fascinating turn
Cult songwriter and singer with London punk band Stump
Mick Lynch: October 11th, 1959 - December 17th, 2015
Good Night and Good Riddance review: a DJ who always spun to the beat of his own drum
The late John Peel’s BBC ‘sessions’ over 37 years are pored over in this exhaustive, thrilling and humorous analysis of an uncompromising tastemaker
Culture Shock: Songs that bum your last cigarette, then break your heart
RM Hubbert’s music comes from the sort of tragedy that would have an ‘X Factor’ contestant slack-jawed with envy
Finbar Furey: ‘I’m winding down the clock’
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
Iggy Pop takes a bite out of U2 over Apple deal
Godfather of punk hits out at modern music industry but empathises with ‘abandoned’ fans
Hozier: “I’m still figuring it out. I’m still figuring myself out”
On the cusp of super-stardom, Hozier reveals all to Una Mullally
Alt-J: from days of hunger to Hunger of the Pine
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 . . .
Talent will out under right radio management
Attitude, not age, key to reaching young listeners, says ex-BBC Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt
Magical mystery tour: ‘The public weren’t aware the Beatles had changed’
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
Morrissey settles a few scores with his book, Autobiography
Account of growing up in Manchester is beautiful, but real focus will be on relationship with man
City fathers let the paramilitary sleeping dogs lie while swabbing out our dreams
Peace in the North is an uneasy stasis, not the real thing
Savages: Where the wild things are
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