Guardian Music — Chris Salmon hails some welcome web resurrectionsIt's now four years since the Strokes released an album. Since then, several members have embarked on solo projects, while frontman Julian ­Casablancas has spoken of inter-band ­disagreements ove... more info

Altsounds — This years Manchester Irish Festival is staging a special opening night concert sponsored by Guinness dedicated to Ireland’s Blues legends such as Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy and Bob Dylan. The night takes place on Friday 5 Mar... more info

411 Mania — The 411Music Top 5 is back after the New Year Holiday! This week, the 411Music Staffers discuss their favorite underrated acts. They discuss everything from Thin Lizzy to Deep Purple, Pink to Matchbox Twenty, Trans-Siberian Orchestra to Soulfly, and ... more info

411 Mania — Kyuss meets Thin Lizzy? more info

Guardian Music — Susanna Karolina Wallumroed, from Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, performs her version of Thin Lizzy's 1976 hit Jailbreak exclusively for Observer Music MonthlyElliot SmithAndy Gallagher more info

Guardian Music — 'Slightly aggressive and borderline insulting' interview with the infamously uncommunicative Strokes frontman reveals that next album has a 20% chance of sounding like an 80s pop Thin LizzyWaiting for Julian Casablancas to arrive at a suitably scruff... more info

Altsounds — From the metal loving city of Montreal comes one of the most killer riff machines this side of the 3 headed love child of Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy and Fu Manchu. *Barn Burner* have been cruising around Canada over the past few years spreading their lo... more info

Guardian Music — The frontman of the New York indie darlings says their forthcoming LP will combine the sound of Thin Lizzy with a-haThe Strokes have already written most of their fourth album, according to Julian Casablancas. Three years since their last record, the... more info

Guardian Music — How will the girl group survive without any of its founder members?On the 2007 Sugababes tour, an official T-shirt bore the names of all its members, past and present: "Keisha & Mutya & Siobhan & Heidi & Amelle." In an amusing – if perhaps tel... more info

Said the Gramophone — Withered Hand - "Hard On". Withered Hand's debut LP, Good News, is not lo-fi. This is a change from the shambolic stuff that so struck me last year. When Dan Willson revisits those old songs - "Religious Songs", "New Dawn", "I Am Nothing" - the resul... more info