Sky News — Pogues singer Shane MacGowan and his partner of 32 years have tied the knot - with Johnny Depp playing guitar at their wedding. more info

JamBase — Listen to Deer Tick's cover of The Pogues' "White City" and the new original "Strange, Awful Feeling" from their upcoming release 'Mayonaisse'. more info

Nialler9 — At the Shane McGowan 60th Birthday concert at the Nationaal Concert Hall this month, amidst a bewildering conveyor belt of high-profile artists who came out to sing, one of the highlights were Dublin folk-tradsters Lankum who did an acapella ve... more info

Stereogum — Last year, Rostam Batmanglij released his debut solo album, Half-Light , and he's taken the occasion to cover a few songs in the ensuing press cycle. Over the last few months, he's offered up covers of Bob Dylan and the Pogues, and his latest takes ... more info

Nialler9 — The National Concert Hall is not a place you’d square with the debaucherous life and career of Shane MacGowan. But, The Pogues singer was never one to sty inside the lines and the national venue is taken over for one night for a 60th birthday... more info

Stereogum — Shane MacGowan, frontman of the legendary Irish punk band the Pogues, turned 60 years old on Christmas. And tonight, just after we lost one Irish music icon, a bunch of celebrities and musicians gathered to pay tribute to another. Nick Cave, Johnny D... more info

JamBase — Punch Brothers with the help of Aoifie O'Donovan performed a trio of holiday-themed tunes, including The Pogues' 'Fairytale Of New York' on CBS' 'Saturday Sessions.' more info

Stereogum — At the beginning of December, Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt returned with his side project Marching Church to give us "Christmas On Earth." A shambling, drunken lament of a thing, it's in the lineage of grittier Christmas songs like the Po... more info

Stereogum — The Pogues' pathos-drenched 1987 reel "Fairytale Of New York" is one of the all-time great Christmas pop songs, but thanks to Shane MacGowan's inimitable slur-gargle and the hard F-bomb that guest Kirsty MacColl drops, it's not the sort of song that ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — What sort of year was 1988? A Don't Worry Be Happy, biggest selling international albums of the year all being released in 1987, Glenn Medeiros, I Owe You Nothing kind of year. On the other hand, and results may vary on whether these were strictl... more info