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A handful of new acts have been announced to appear at June's Body & Soul festival at Ballinlough Castle in Westmeath....

The first trailer for Shane Meadows' Made of Stone documentary has been released. The film chronicles the history of the...

'Bankrupt!', the new album from French geniuses Phoenix hits the shelves this Friday, but for those of you struggling with...

No album in recent memory has been the recipient of such sustained hype as Daft Punk's upcoming Random Access Memories, with...

The delightfully left-of-centre Regina Spektor will play her first Irish headline show in over six years when she treads the...

Italian composer Ennio Morricone will play a second Dublin performance on Saturday 27th July at the Irish Museum of Modern...

Olaf Tyransen, a contributing journalist for Hot Press and The Herald, revealed this morning on his personal Twitter account...

Singer-songwriter Amelia Curran appears to favour her position away from the oppressive glare of the limelight. With...

Okay, we weren't actually at the Coachella festival but word has been filtering out from the Californian festival all...

A brand new teaser trailer to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has been released to the web. The clip shows the French...

Chi Cheng, former bass player for US rock group Deftones, at the age of 42. Cheng had been in a coma since a November 2008...

Woe betide the world that makes PSY an international hit and phenomenon. The South Korean 'artist's new song Gentleman has...

Prior to the release of Paramore's fourth album, fans of the band could have been forgiven for wondering just exactly what...

Former Westlifer Shane Filan has signed a recording contract with UK-based London Records. Traditionally speaking, musicians...

He may already own a clothing line and have a stake in the new incarnation of MySpace (as well as a whole slew of other...

Jay-Z has addressed his controversial trip to Cuba in a scathing new song. The rapper and his wife Beyonce were heavily...

Justin Bieber has added another Belieber to his legions of fans and this is one we didn't quite expect - Beady Eye frontman...

The Meteor Camden Crawl Dublin is inching ever closer, with the festivities set to kick off across the May Bank Holiday...

Last week he brought you a beautiful shadow puppet inspired video for 'Inches From A Fairytale' and now the second of Tony...

Dublin-based eight piece mini orchestra The Crayon Set began performing together in 2008. Since being listed by 2 U I Bestow...

At least 18 Irish record stores will celebrate the 6th International Record Store Day on Saturday April 20th next. Record...

The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appears to have ushered Wizard of Oz track 'Ding Dong! The...

A collective of students from BIMM, the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, will perform in Dublin's Odessa Club tonight,...

Being the President of the United States certainly has its perks. Sure, the pressure in the job is monumental, you regularly...

The world's media has had their gaze firmly fixed upon the Korean peninsula over the course of the last week, since North...

Liam Gallagher's post-Oasis effort Beady Eye has revealed the a the band's second album, titled simply Be, will likely come...

The Strypes made their UK television debut last night with an appearance on the much-loved Later...With Jools Holland, a...

The line-up to the upcoming Forbidden Fruit festival in Kilmainham grew this morning, with five more acts added to the...

Only a few weeks now until one of Ireland's first festivals of the summer opens its doors. Vantastival, in Bellurgan Park...

Paris, New York, Berlin, London? Well, not quite. Any of the aforementioned cities would, on paper at least, seem to be...