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Glasgow band Sons & Daughters have found a new sound on their poppy latest album. It's all thanks to the tough Spector/Gordy-style tactics of their producer, former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. They talk studio hell with Brian Boyd .
In 12 months, a single catchy tune has conferred international stardom on Chicago band Plain White T's. Yet both the drippy boy-meets-girl-tune, Hey There Delilah , and the band themselves, have been on the go for years, they tell Tony Clayton-Lea .
His best known song - entitled Dirty C**ts - is an expletive-strewn tirade against the occupants of Dáil Éireann. Kilkenny hip-hop artist and hurling fan Captain Moonlight tells Tony Clayton-Lea why he loves politics, but not politicians.
A new Irish monthly music magazine is set to appear on the news-stands in March. The team behind State magazine believe their new title will appeal to those 20- to 40-year-old music fans who currently buy monthly UK music magazines, writes Jim Carroll .
In a venue as small as The Whisky in Cork, band and audience can really get up close and personal - and let's face it, you can't have a really good gig without a spot of intimacy.
Kraftwerk remain pop's most enduring riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Many attempts have been made to decipher what actually goes on beyond the doors of their Kling-Klang studio and there have ever been a couple of band interviews in recent years. Yet the enigma remains in place.
Comment on On the Record, check out Jim's Tune of the Week and pick up his other snippets, tidbits and musings on www.ireland.com/blogs/ontherecord
The annual US Super Bowl sporting event goes out to a huge TV audience and is much coveted by advertisers, who routinely break all budgets to do a prime-time shill for their products, writes Brian Boyd .
CD Choice: Dance Listen to Made in the Dark , the new album from Hot Chip, exclusively on ireland.com .