This is no comfy nostalgia trip as R’n’B anthems burn up the night

Cleanse yourself with some mindful treats before blowing it all with one last sesh

Tara McGuinness, booker of Body & Soul’s Bandstage stage, on how she selects the line-up

Stage times for the Main, Body and Soul, Rankin’s Wood and Other Voices stages

Electric Picnic is all about those perfect moments of music and madness in Stradbally. So which songs, stages and Picnic slices are our writers looking forward to?

The xx, Duran Duran and Chaka Khan headline this year’s sold-out festival

Comments come after Electric Picnic sells out in less than five minutes, ahead of lineup announcement

The first tranche of acts is announced hours after the festival sells out

Obituary: He worked with Quincy Jones and wrote a string of hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Grammy-winning performer is battling problem with same drug that killed Prince

Singer’s action on private jet may have saved Prince’s life amid overdose days before death

Legion of entertainers express their sorrow and pay tribute to late singer

The leader of the new school tells about joining the dots between Snoop Dogg and jazz, his on-the-road education – and why music is such a complicated thing

Frankie Knuckles: January 18th, 1955 - March 31st, 2014

Nile Rodgers, Bobby Womack and Johnny Cash have all showed how musical reinvention is done – who’s next?