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IS IT surprising Damon Albarn has taken this long to make a solo album? As one of the major figures in British popular music for close to 25 years, Blur, Gorillaz, his collaborations with African musicians and composer Michael Nyman, have given him plenty creative endeavours to be going on with.

THE DISCONAUTS, the Galway/London house music collective, play their first full live show with all six members onstage, in more than four years, in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night.

THE NINETIES saw indie go from the underground to overground as shoegaze, grunge, and Britpop ruled the charts.

THE NINETIES saw indie go from the underground to overground as shoegaze, grunge, and Britpop ruled the charts.

THE NINETIES was when indie went from the underground to overground and spawned such genres as shoegaze, grunge, and Britpop.

Jenny Huston plays the best new indie rock, pop, and electro Monday to Thursday from 9-11pm on 2fm. She is now set to play the best known tracks from her Indie Rocks DJ set in the Velvet at the Royal Theatre on Saturday, August 4.

BLUR IS a band I’ve long had a difficult relationship with - from loving their early psychedelic indie pop, then despising their Britpop era, to regaining admiration for the quartet’s late 1990s triumphs.

PANIC!, A night of classic indie anthems from bands like Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure, Stone Roses, Pixies, Blur, Arctic Monkeys, etc, takes place next week.

While at the Oxegen music festival in 2007, friends Shane, Joe, and Callum decided they wanted to be on stage, not in front of it, and thus Bipolar Empire was born! They approached Mark Maguire, a talented guitarist, songwriter, and longtime friend - and Bipolar Empire became a quartet.

STRANGE BREW Summer Shindig - the annual celebration of all things Irish, indie, and alternative at the Róisín Dubh - returns next week for its seventh year.