:: The Murder Capital – Ethel (single, Human Season) NOW that 2022 is beginning to wind down, it's about time to start marking out things to look forward to in 2023 which might offer us some pleasant distraction from the imminent financial ruin we are all facing.

PUNKS can be a fickle bunch.

1 Up and at it - what is your morning routine? My alarm goes off 6.

ROD Stewart's forthcoming pre-Christmas date in Belfast will be one of his last "rock n' roll arena shows".

IT'S been a big year for Liverpool music legend Michael 'Mick' Head, who topped the indie chart back in May with the release of Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band's critically acclaimed album Dear Scott.

DERMOT KENNEDY – SONDER DERMOT Kennedy struck gold on his debut album, 2019's Without Fear which propelled him to number one in both the UK and his home nation.

:: New Pagans – Karin Was Not A Rebel/Fresh Young Overlook (single, Big Scary Monsters) NEW Pagans are back with another couple of new tunes from their forthcoming second album, Making Circles of Our Own, which they've released as what we used to refer to in the olden times as a 'double A-side' single.

IT is not the sort of sound you might expect to hear echoing through the crisp evening air outside a Quaker Meeting House, but anyone walking past the group's south Belfast gathering place on the Lisburn Road a few weeks ago might have wondered why the worship had suddenly gone 'pop'.