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TAKING ITS cue from funk and soul, and developing in the Latino and gay clubs of New York in the mid-1970s, disco became a global phenomenon by the end of the decade.

There is nothing nicer than jazz on a Sunday afternoon although it is sometimes hard to come by in more recent times, however, if it is music you are after this Sunday afternoon, look no further than the Left Bank.

THE REVELLIONS are inspired by 1960s rock and make garage rock that sounds fresh and original. What’s more they are coming to Galway this weekend.

THROUGHOUT THE 1980s Steve Earle was the poster boy of the Outlaw Country Music scene. Taking inspiration from Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, and Waylon Jennings his music had a harder edge than the pop-oriented Nashville sound of the time.

WITH THE exception of Electric Picnic, the only Irish show the great Okkervil River will play this year is in the Róisín Dubh on Monday September 7 at 9pm.

Hip hop may have begun in the Bronx and Brooklyn in the late 1970s but by the end of the 1980s its epicentre was Los Angeles - more specifically South Central LA.

Ines Wurth brings her spellbinding one-woman show I Miss Communism to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday May 13 at 8pm.

WHO SAYS German music can’t be funky? In the 1970s Can injected their Velvets inspired prog-rock with a good dose of funky grooves, and these days Munich’s The Poets of Rhythm continue to bring the funk from the Fatherland to the world.

WHO SAYS German music can’t be funky? In the 1970s Can injected their Velvets inspired prog-rock with a good dose of funky grooves, and these days Munich’s The Poets of Rhythm continue to bring the funk from the Fatherland to the world.