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If one thing is clear about indie-funk group The Chris Ruben Band, it's that they’re serious about fun. The New York sextet’s new album, Madness on Repeat, encapsulates their live energy and musical prowess through their unique flavour of…

Living through the Covid-19 pandemic is impossible to compare to any prior experience. Early on, it felt there were attempts to do so to lessen the fear associated with the unknown. Then as our needs to social distance and quarantine became…

"Someone must have blessed us when he gave us those songs…" New Yorker James Richard Steinman, more commonly known as Jim Steinman, is the zeitgeist figure of AOR (album-oriented rock). Steinman exploded onto the music scene in 1977,…

Xi.me.na Borges, a Venezuelan/New York experimental artist, is an award-winning composer and performer. Melding old and new via the use of digital and analogue tech, she also blends music from different eras. The result is a body of work…

Jess Chizuk and Greg Zeis are a folk/Americana duo hailing from Buffalo, New York. Over the last eighteen months, they've been busy to say the least. Utilising a homemade RV, The Rightly So have been touring non-stop across America. Their…

How many of this summer’s music festivals will be remembered? Probably none. Woodstock, August 1969, however, has its historic place in culture (or counterculture) assured; an ‘Aquarian Exposition of Peace and Music’ as the poster’s dove…

This week on Fireside, we hear a fairy story of a tobacco obsessed farmer who goes on a journey to find his precious smoke. A journey that takes him all the way to America! This is... The Tobacco Quest Find out about your Fireside Bard,…

Director Walter Hill originally wanted The Warriors to open with a sprawl about Ancient Greek warriors crossing a desert to get home. Hill wanted Orson Welles to voice it and he wanted the film to be divided up into chapters that would move…

Born on January 21st 1876 to Armagh parents in Liverpool, James Larkin is forever linked to the trade union movement in Ireland and the 1913 Dublin Lockout but, shortly after that episode in Irish history he went to America where he ended…

Elizabeth Margaret McNally died 100 years ago in the Summer of 1918 at the age of 59. The County Antrim lady is not known to many today, but at the turn of the 19th century she was dubbed 'The worst woman on earth' and became the first…