Something that interests me as a voracious consumer of new music is the rise of multi-venue festivals where you can try and cram as many acts into your day as possible. The SXSW festival in Austin, Texas is the best example of this, but this year already many UK events...

Last year for Record Store Day, I wrote a blog post about the records shops I grew up with in Northern Ireland, and how they helped me gain a sense of identity through my teens and into my twenties. None of them that I mentioned exist now, but...

For me, the last 24 hours has been dominated by a single twitter hashtag, a curiously contemporary phenomenon that didn't exist during the life of the man it is referring to. 25th October marks the 7th anniversary of the death of British broadcasting legend John Peel and fans have celebrated...

Twenty years old this weekend and celebrated by the release of a gigantic 4-CD/ 1 DVD special edition, Nirvana's Nevermind has had many adjectives associated with it. People have called it ground-breaking, game-changing, iconic.

In the UK at least, it followed on the back of a buzz...