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SOME OF the cream of the Irish indie/alternative scene will be gather in the Róisín Dubh on New Year's Eve to ring out 2012 and ring in 2013 with great music.

Are you sick and tired of the same old Valentine cliché each year? Feeling that you must run out and take part in the Valentine’s circus? Tomorrow night Saturday February 11 Live n Loud at the Clubhouse Presents... has decided to bring you something completely different, an Anti-Valentine’s Ball with five of the best emerging bands coming out of Ireland right now. Redneck Manifesto front-man Richie Egan brings his band Jape to Castlebar for the first time ever along with The Ambience Affair, Mia Sparrow, Windings and Bouts.

Goldfrapp - The Singles

His name may have raised one or two eyebrows when his 2002 album Lapalco appeared alongside luminaries like Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys and The White Stripes on The Irish Times’ top 20 albums of the last decade.

BRENDAN BENSON was born and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of the port city of Detroit. The city is known as the world’s centre of the automobile industry, but it is even more famous for its music.

JAZZ MUSICIANS from Holland, Japan, the USA, and Scandinavia, will be converging on this city for the Galway Jazz Festival 2008 which runs from Thursday November 20 to Sunday 23.

THE VON Bondies are from Michigan but aren’t really into The Stooges. They are called ‘garage rock’ but don’t play that kind of music. They always have two women in the band, but it’s not a gimmick. It’s no wonder band leader Jason Stollsteimer feels he has a point to prove.

Following their sell-out show in January this year, Sharon Shannon, Shane MacGowan and Mundy return to The Hub this Christmas with extra special guest, rockabilly musician Imelda May.

DETROIT HAS given the world sweet soul music through Motown and the genesis of punk with The Stooges. For The Dirtbombs, it was natural to combine the two musics spawned by their home city.

Is it just me or are the years flying by quicker than ever? Even the advent of that nasty word 'recession' wasn't enough to slow down the hands of time and the year 2008 has already had its day in the sun (or rain) and a new year is dawning.