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The Music Quiz: What early ’60s song did Lennon & McCartney wrote for the Stones?

Plus: Cotswold Rail locomotive #47828 is named after which punk rocker?


Zach Bryan at Phoenix Park: Stage times, set list, weather and more

Everything you need to know about the US country music singer’s concerts this weekend


Kneecap at Fairview Park in Dublin: How to get there, set list, ticket information and more

West Belfast rap trio Kneecap – Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, and DJ Próvaí – will take to the stage in Dublin’s Fairview Park on Thursday, June 19th


Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s must have been groaning with future celebrities of the diaspora

We should be flattered that, like the ginger guitar-basher Ed Sheeran, so many people yearn to be ‘culturally’ Irish


Charli XCX at Dublin’s Malahide Castle: Stage times, set list, ticket information, how to get there and more

Everything you need to know about the star’s concert on Tuesday, June 17th


Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘Romance took a lot out of us. It was like a bomb went off, and then that silence’

The past eight months have been most hectic of band’s career – and a time to decide what kind of future they want


Kneecap name high-profile legal team to defend terrorism charge against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh

Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC, Darragh Mackin and Gareth Peirce part of team representing member of Irish-language rap trio in Westminster court


Beyond the Pale: All hands on deck ahead of three-day music festival

‘We clawed it back’, say organisers as they prepare for the festival to kick off, a week after cancellation rumours circulated


Catfish and the Bottlemen at Fairview Park in Dublin: How to get there, set list, ticket information and more

Everything you need to know about the band’s concert on Monday, June 16th


Brian Wilson: Death of towering figure closes a chapter in music history

As the tortured visionary behind The Beach Boys, Wilson helped shape the world we live in today


Brian Wilson, Beach Boys musician and pop visionary, dies aged 82

Musician wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds – seen by many as the greatest album of all time


Ed Sheeran: ‘I identify culturally as Irish’

Galway Girl singer (34) raised in Suffolk and has large Irish family


The Music Quiz: Where are the brackets placed in this U2 song title?

Plus: From which song on Lou Reed’s 1973 album, Berlin, did Mike Scott choose the name of his band?


Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82

American songwriter lit up generations of dance floors with his group Sly and the Family Stone


Pioneering producer Arthur Baker: Bono called me up and said, ‘Can you get me a guitar? I want to write a song’

Baker’s new autobiography charts his work producing and remixing Springsteen, Dylan, New Order and Afrika Bambaataa