Coming just over a year after the album Quare Groove Vol. 1 pulled back the lid on a hidden world of Irish funk music of the 1970s and ’80s, comes another compilation album from the same stable that puts the spotlight on the early jazz fusion and folk scene.

Some of music’s finest have died this year, but there has still been a fine array of records on release. Ed Power picks his favourites

Fancy some festival action as part of your summer holidays? Ed Power selects the ten best events around Europe

The homecoming of Hozier was the unofficial theme of day one of the Longitude Festival in Marley Park, Dublin, with the Wicklow chart-topper delivering a relatively rare Irish performance after a year busily conquering the US and elsewhere.

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