Metropolis festival: everything you need to know

Stage times, transport directions and full line-up: Leftfield, Laurent Garnier, Death in Vegas, Richie Hawtin and house maestro Todd Terje will be stompin' their stuff at the RDS this weekend




Festivals worth the trip

No need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivals


Franz Forever

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos spills the beans on the quartet’s stellar fourth album, his Irish literary inspiration and why his band will never be the showbiz types


French rock renaissance

The days when audiences outside France sniggered at French music are well and truly over thanks to acts such as Phoenix and Daft Punk. Jim Carroll on how French music got so hip




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