Miss them at your peril, people. Tony Clayton-Lea gives us a 10-act heads-up on next weekend’s Electric Picnic line-up

And remember to keep your sense of wellbeing well irrigated

Here comes Kelis. After a career of multicoloured musical twists and turns, Kelis is back with a new album “Food” to make her growing interest in all things food. Ahead of her appearance at the Electric Picnic 2014, she chews the fat with Jim Carroll

Tyler was a country-rock chanteuse before an operation to her larynx transformed her into the husky queen of the power ballad. She will soon take Total Eclipse of the Heart to Electric Picnic

Simple Minds, alive and kicking after 37 years, are preparing to release their 16th album and appear at next month’s Electric Picnic. As frontman Jim Kerr explains, they like to go forward, not back

She’s gotten some stick for her lyrical candour and a very ‘digital’ video, but for rising ‘R&Björk’ star FKA twigs, it’s the music that matters

Sinéad O’Connor – still a teenage punk at heart – has embraced songwriting in an excellent, emotionally honest new album

So says the band’s Geoff Barrow as they prepare to play their first Irish show for 17 years at Electric Picnic. He talks about the Stradbally festival and the band’s future recording plans

Foals are part of a dying breed of guitar bands. And it’s working for them, as they make the leap to being festival headliners