New York Times — Critics say the rapper known as M.I.A. is an apologist for the Tamil Tiger rebels fighting in the country’s civil war. more info

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Rolling Stone — “Teenage Kicks” — the opening track on the 1978 debut EP, Teenage Kicks, by the Northern Ireland quintet the Undertones — is perfection. There is no other word for its two and a half minutes of balled-fist fuzz chords and raging-hormone emerg... more info

NME — Feargal Sharkey, the former Undertones man who is the head of music campaign group UK Music, is challenging a new piece of police bureaucracy that requires some promoters to divulge details of the style of music played at their shows and the ethnicit... more info

NME — Feargal Sharkey, the former Undertones man who is the head of music campaign group UK Music, is challenging a new piece of police bureaucracy that requires some promoters to divulge details of the style of music played at their shows and the ethnicit... more info

Guardian Music — A new umbrella organisation formed to represent Britain's entire music industry will today promise to deliver a five-year plan to plot a safer course for a sector that has been battered in the past decade.UK Music intends to replace the disparate voi... more info

Guardian Music — He made his name as the rasping-voiced lead singer of the Undertones. Now, 30 years after the release of 'Teenage Kicks', Feargal Sharkey is to spearhead a music revolution in British schools.Tomorrow Sharkey will be unveiled as the chief executive o... more info

BBC News - UK — Undertones bassist recalls 30 years of Teenage Kicks more info

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