At the moment hyper-local sites tend to be filled with discussions of town fetes and the next music night at the village pub.

ECONOMIST: Local newspapers in peril

It's the essence of Ask Me Another, a rambunctious hour that blends brainteasers and local pub trivia night with comedy and music.

NPR: About Ask Me Another

After five years at the pub, he left to return to music full-time and developed the Rockin' in Rhythm show, which charted the history of jazz and played at theatres throughout Europe.

BBC: Terry Lightfoot

He then set up the first of the societies that to this day perform the hugely complex task of collecting money from every pub, club and radio station which uses music, distributing it to those who created it.

ECONOMIST: He who pays the piper

They kept the radio on in the first hours after the pub opened, but then chose to change to music at a low volume.

FORBES: Finding Sanctuary on Nine-Eleven

The pub, in Scarisbrick New Road, is run by local actors and features a theatre and music venue inside.

BBC: The Shakespeare

The music of Ceann (pronounced "key-ann") takes them straight to a table at the local pub, with cold pints at the ready.

NPR: 'Pretty on the Inside' and the Ugly Truth

At a show at Joe's Pub in mid-December, five thereminists performed a range of material including ambient and techno music, classical compositions by Alexander Scriabin and Richard Wagner, and pop by the Beatles, Enya, and Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern.

WSJ: The Theremin Comes Into Its Own | By Jim Fusilli