Well, St. Patrick's Day has rolled around again, so what have we got for you this time? St. Patrick reminding everyone to turn the volume up. We did one a few years back that focused on bands with Patrick / Pat / Patricia's in - you can relive that one here . We also have featured Ireland in one of our Geography themed playlists - here . So, this time we have gone back to find some more Irish bands for you - and managed to (mostly) present you with ones we haven't used before

It’s been a while since we did one of our Six Degrees of Kevin Shields episodes, so to honour the new year, we are looking at musicians born on New Year’s Day to start proceedings. There are a few potential starters for this honour; Joe McDonald , the ‘Country’ one in Country Joe & the Fish ; Morgan Fisher, keyboard player with Mott The Hoople ; Ari Up (John Lydon’s stepdaughter) of The Slits ; Brody Dalle (Bree Robinson), the Australian born singer with punk band The Dist

We start the latest episode of Six Degrees Of Kevin Shields by commemorating the life of English musician, Chris Cross, who sadly passed...

Last weekend we reported on the sad passing of Wayne Kramer, guitarist with legendary proto-punks the MC5. He was highly revered in the...

Time for our occasional dip into the game we like to call Six Degrees Of Kevin Shields. As ever, we need some sort of musical reference...

As we approach the first anniversary of this website, I thought I would take a look at one of the acts that ties in with one of the main...