The theme tune to True Detective brought The Handsome Family to a whole new audience, writes Don O’Mahony

They were contemporaries of UK acid-house era acts Leftfield, The Orb and Massive Attack, but Dreadzone’s roots reach back to Mick Jones’s urban groove-oriented post-Clash act, Big Audio Dynamite.

If you’ve ever fancied trying your hand at puppetry then head along to Cork’s first Puppetry Festival.

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It was a classic case of right time, wrong place, when the Membranes emerged growling and screaming from the English town of Blackpool in 1977. While the media fixated on the punk and post-punk explosions in London and nearby Manchester, the seaside Lancashire town was treated with neglect.

Cork is set to go a little bit New Orleans this weekend as the best jazz musicians from home and abroad descend for a Cork City carnival.

Joya Kuin

IT got off to a soggy start, but no amount of moisture could have killed the carnival in Cork last night where jazz junkies got down and dirty to swinging big band music and lashings of Latin groove.