With a week to go to the annual extravaganza in Stradbally, Ed Power selects the top 10 acts he’s most looking forward to catching.

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MUSIC NEWS: The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue and co have been busy touring, with Hot Press also reporting the band recently shot the video for their single ‘Superheroes’ in a township in Johannesburg.

TWO weeks ago, the Choice Music Prize shortlist for best Irish album of 2013 was announced — how many can you name?

ALAN MCGEE’S record label Creation created the sounds of a generation before it folded up in 1999. It included acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis, as well as his oldest and best friend Bobby Gillespie’s band, Primal Scream. McGee, who was born in 1960, a year before Gillespie, grew up around the corner from him in a working-class neighbourhood in Glasgow.

Ed Power looks at the highs and lows of a mixed year in music

ONE of the strangest sights at the recent Electric Picnic festival was the mass exodus from the main stage ten minutes into the swoonful noise-rock of My Bloody Valentine.

Thirty-five thousand music and arts lovers packed the Stradbally estate in Co Laois for last weekend’s Electric Picnic.

If festival attendances are any indication of the health of the economy, then this year’s Electric Picnic turnout would seem to suggest a turnabout in the nation’s fortunes.

Organisers have revealed the Main Stage times for this weekend's Electric Picnic festival.

Ed Power's essential musical menu for the Electric Picnic weekend

Electric Picnic organisers have today revealed which bands would be playing on each day of the festival.

Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder is to make his first ever appearance in Ireland at the Electric Picnic festival in September, it was announced today.

Hop Farm Music Festival which was to feature acts such as My Bloody Valentine has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

Organisers of the Electric Picnic music and arts festival have tonight announced more acts for this year's event.

Primal Scream's new bassist is a "star player from a star team."

COMEDY CAPERS: He splits opinion between those who love or loathe him, but top British comic Michael McIntyre will probably sell out his three nights at Cork Opera House from Jun 25-27.

Paul Weller is reuniting with former The Jam bandmate Bruce Foxton.

Chart acts Kasabian, Glasvegas and Brit-winning Florence And The Machine were unveiled as contenders for this year’s Mercury Prize as the shortlist was announced today.

Festival promoters said Paul McCartney will headline the 10th annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Elbow rounded off a breakthrough year today with their album topping an annual “poll of polls” list.

The organisers of this year’s Electric Picnic are advising people attending the event to arrive early today.

Irish rock band My Bloody Valentine have scooped The Classic Album award for 'Loveless' in the Mojo Honours List 2008.d.

Punk legends The Sex Pistols are among the headline acts confirmed for this year’s Electric Picnic.

Anarchy, funk, nostalgia, surrealism: that's how the organisers of Electric Picnic 2008 are describing this year's event at Stradbally Hall Co Laois.

TEAR up your T-shirts and shine your Doc Martins, the Sex Pistols are coming to town this year as the Electric Picnic festival turns to punk.

Punk legends The Sex Pistols are among the headline acts confirmed today for this year’s Electric Picnic music festival.

The Sex Pistols, Franz Ferdinand and My Bloody Valentine have been confirmed as three of the headline acts for this year's Electric Picnic festival in Co Laois.

British rockers Primal Scream were set to kick start Ireland’s newest international music festival, Bud Rising, tonight.