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Nialler9 — TV still has the capacity to surprise musically as it showed famously last year with Future Islands on Letterman. Dublin trad band Lynched aren’t in that category but in their own small way a live appearance for the Planxty-style band was a monumen... more info

The Telegraph — Previous winners of the Music Industry Trusts Award include Sir Elton John, Jools Holland, Gary Barlow and Annie Lennox more info

Stereogum — The new Franz Ferdinand/Sparks supergroup FFS played live for the first time last night (outside of an appearance on Jools Holland last month) at the Arts School is Glasgow. They played pretty much all of the tracks off of their self-titled debut, wh... more info

Nialler9 — Leon Bridges appeared at the tail end of last year with the soulful crooning track ‘Coming Home’ before doing pretty well at SXSW in March and has played Jools Holland most recently. The 25 year-old with the classic tones is coming to Dublin for ... more info

Stereogum — Sleater-Kinney took the Later… With Jools Holland stage on 5/29 and played three tracks off their latest release No Cities To Love: the title track, “Gimme Love,” and “Price Tag.” A week later, footage of the full performance is finally onl... more info

Stereogum — Florence + The Machine just released their really solid new album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, and Florence Welch is starting to make the late-night rounds, thankfully without the stool that she had to drag around to her appearances on Saturday ... more info

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Stereogum — Florence Welch is still feeling the effects of the foot injury that she incurred at Coachella, so she had to do her second go-around on Saturday Night Live while sitting down on a stool. But like her also stationary Jools Holland performance from a f... more info

Stereogum — In the past few months, the young piano man Tobias Jesso Jr. has made impressive appearances on The Tonight Show and Conan, and now he’s ready to take on TV shows elsewhere in the world. Jesso was a guest on the most recent episode of the BBC’s l... more info