As she gets ready for her Clonakilty gig, Valerie June tells Ed Power why her bluesy sound shouldn’t be pigeonholed

MUSIC NEWS: Is it really eight years since the last New Order album? The Manc electronica outfit have announced a new release, Music Complete, for September 25, complete with keyboard player Gillian Gilbert, albeit without bass player Bernard Sumner who has been estranged from the band since 2007.

A West Cork town is set to be invaded by guitar lovers when it hosts a star-studded festival featuring some of the greatest foot-stompin’, fingerpicking, head-banging, eye-catching exponents of the art.

David Bowie leads nominations for the 2013 Q Awards, with six nods.

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

Author Dan Brown has been confirmed for the Dublin Writers Festival from May 20-26.