Perfect pitch: Soundtracking the beautiful gameFrom Italia '90 to Euro 2016, finding the music to match the football footage is an artSat Jun 04 2016 - 05:31
The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Beach Boys: 12 months that changed music1966 was the year of Revolver, Blonde on Blonde and Pet Sounds – and, from The Kinks and The Byrds, the first concept and psychedelic albums. Was it rock’s annus mirabilis?Sat Jun 04 2016 - 05:00
Paul McCartney: The Biography review – the gospel according to MaccaPhilip Norman’s doorstopper biography of the ‘cute Beatle’ is thrillingly thorough stuffSat Jun 04 2016 - 02:00
Brian Boyd: Bullshit can be more dangerous than lies in politicsA liar cares about truth - he must, to conceal it from his audience. The bullshitter is indifferentFri Jun 03 2016 - 01:00
‘Five Go Gluten Free’? Enid Blyton’s Famous Five get a parody rebootBaby boomers will be able to wallow again in the uncomplicated world of their childhood reading – now with added ironyFri May 27 2016 - 12:00
Reginald D Hunter on why 'TV is perfect for the talentless', and why he uses the N-wordThe comedian, who has taken flak for use of the N-word and other explosive material, is worried about freedom of expressionThu May 26 2016 - 05:00
Brian Boyd: High heels and the curse of the beautiful peopleStudies show physical appearance has a lot to do with our financial and societal valueThu May 19 2016 - 01:38
The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones, by Rich Cohen review: rocking their worldWhen a fan turned music journalist goes on tour with The Rolling Stones, access all areas fuels a forensically observed insider accountFri May 13 2016 - 20:36
Brian Boyd: Sabina Higgins and the unwritten rules for ‘first lady’It is purely convention that President’s spouse does not speak publicly on politicsThu May 12 2016 - 01:00
One weekend. 49 kids with heart disease. Lots of playThe Irish Heart Foundation’s Happy Heart appeal needs you – please help make genetic heart disease less traumatic for kidsTue May 03 2016 - 09:44
Sweet madness of a Prince ‘interview’: no pens, no past tense, no IrishWhen the late singer was heading for Ireland in 2011 he agreed to talk to Brian Boyd. It wasn’t a run-of-the-mill encounterFri Apr 22 2016 - 13:20
Brian Boyd: Celebrities cannot have it both ways when it comes to privacyLatest superinjunction in the UK highlights double standards when it comes to keeping private lives privateWed Apr 20 2016 - 00:47
Give Me A Crash Course In … KeshaThe singer-songwriter is in a legal battle over her contract with Sony Music’s Kemosabe labelSat Apr 09 2016 - 01:00
Cody Mitschelin: Boy meets girl. Boy mows lawn. World goes bananasHe just wanted to buy his girlfriend a pizza. Then the internet had to go and spoil it allFri Apr 01 2016 - 01:00
Tennis endures a season of scandal, from match-fixing to dopingThe failure to make the sport transparently clean has done near irreparable damageSat Mar 26 2016 - 01:44
Brian Boyd: The narcissism of taking offence by proxyOutrage over Madonna gig is latest example of the egotism of the professionally offendedWed Mar 23 2016 - 01:00
Trump, Ranieri and the unpredictability of successJust when you thought Old White Men had had their day, they are heading for the topSat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00
Five songs to make you feel more IrishMissing home? Not feeling your Irishness? Here come Luke Kelly, Christy Moore and The Blades to the rescueThu Mar 17 2016 - 11:30
How do you solve a problem like Maria Sharapova?She is a bigger hitter for her sponsorship deals than for her tennis. After her drug-test failure and apology, what next for the highest-earning woman in sport?Sat Mar 12 2016 - 04:00
Now that’s what I call the best US presidential music album – everA recent Rolling Stone poll called out the US presidential candidates on their favourite music – who knew Hillary Clinton was into trance?Sun Feb 14 2016 - 15:00
Brian Boyd: In defence of Ms Beyonce KnowlesShe has become a weather vane for our times - complete with all the miserable stupidity which that entailsFri Feb 12 2016 - 01:22
Brian Boyd: People of Stoneybatter prepare to be gentrifiedWhether Dublin rises up in protest against the presence of a Cereal Cafe among its streets broad and narrow remains to be seen.Wed Feb 03 2016 - 13:39
Brian Boyd: Ancient grains plus modern marketing equals complete nonsenseAncient grains, whether from Tutankhamun’s tomb or Noah’s Ark, have transfixed US consumersWed Jan 20 2016 - 03:04
Friends: they lived perfect lives in a time of plenty. Of course we want them backMonica, Joey, Phoebe, Rachel, Ross and Chandler starred in sitcom that never grew upSat Jan 16 2016 - 04:00
David Bowie: Vote for your favourite songWhich classic Bowie song from his unique and glittering catalogue was your favourite?Tue Jan 12 2016 - 16:51
10 acts that would not have existed without David BowieAs Johnny Marr once said: ‘There are musicians who are influenced by him that don’t realise it’Mon Jan 11 2016 - 11:33
Brian Boyd: That’s Murdertainment ...What gets lost amid ceaseless chatter about Serial and its peers is fact that families will be visiting graveyards this Christmas while we are listening, watching and talking about death of their son or daughterSat Dec 19 2015 - 02:11
The world won’t listen to Marc Carroll – but it shouldThe Dubliner counts Bob Dylan and Neil Young among his fans and gets rave reviews for his music, but you’ll never hear him on radioTue Dec 15 2015 - 06:00
Hello: How Adele’s new song got exes textingMultitudes on social media confess to having contacted their old flames after hearing power balladSat Oct 31 2015 - 10:00
Bono: the voice of innocence and experienceIn a fast car in Italy, the U2 singer takes a ride through the band’s Dublin rootsFri Sept 18 2015 - 07:00
U2 confirm dates for six Irish shows in NovemberBand to perform two gigs in Belfast’s SSE Arena and four in Dublin’s 3ArenaWed Sept 09 2015 - 12:11
U2 to tour Ireland at end of November, Bono confirms‘We are coming home ... we just had to make it happen,’ Bono tells Brian Boyd in TurinSun Sept 06 2015 - 20:04
U2 eye potential Dublin dates ahead of Turin performanceManagement unable to confirm end-of-year dates or venue as European leg of tour beginsFri Sept 04 2015 - 22:03
One Direction: when boybands stopFive years into their stratospheric career Harry Styles and the rest of the band are a money-minting jukebox. Their coming ‘hiatus’ – let’s face it, their split – will be a financial earthquake for many in the businessSat Aug 29 2015 - 01:00
Yukk! Keep me away from Yuccies, pur-leazeYuccies – cherish ‘craft’ beer and ‘artisanal’ food, like ‘authentic’ holiday destinations – are hipster versions of yuppies: they want personal success and financial gain while keeping their ‘creative autonomy’. They’re just victims of clever marketingSun Jul 19 2015 - 11:00
Brian Boyd: On Roger Federer, fandom and fixationA British 30-something has written a ‘bewildering’ account of his 10-year-plus obsession with tennis giant Roger FedererWed Jun 03 2015 - 03:30
My Health Experience: ‘We all thought you were dead. Do you want a Twix?’You’d think someone who plays tennis, cycles, swims and is in the same shape as his 17-year-old self would be the last person to be mown down by a heart attack. In this case, you would be wrongMon May 11 2015 - 14:20
Bono’s injury and U2’s shrinking tourThe 360 shows were the highest-grossing tour of all time. The Irish band’s new one, Innocence + Experience, is a series of intimate indoor gigs. The industry will be watching the audience reaction – and the stage performance of post-bike-crash BonoFri May 08 2015 - 14:00
Is the pen mightier than the keyboard for students?Laptop-use in classrooms should be viewed with a healthy dose of caution, and they may be doing more harm than goodTue Mar 31 2015 - 06:00
Words to the wise: ‘Accuse me of anything, but do not attack my grammar’Celebrities Taylor Swift and Kelsey Grammer have become champions of good English. But even being a ‘cool grammarian’ has its rulebookSat Mar 28 2015 - 01:00
Not Eminem. Just EminBillionaire Azerbaijani pop star Emin, already big in Russia, has set his sights on IrelandSun Mar 22 2015 - 08:45
Israel is the new Denmark when it comes to scintillating drama'Hostages' occupies the BBC4 Saturday 9pm slot and is dramatically taut and Pinteresque in intentSun Mar 08 2015 - 08:29
List of the Week: 10 technical hitchesNational Lottery not the only organisation to be let down by technologySat Feb 07 2015 - 12:06
Has the selfie passed its sell-by date?‘Kim Kardashian, who once took 1,200 selfies in the space of a two week holiday, is now the subject of academic research into the meaning and evolution of the selfie shot’Wed Feb 04 2015 - 00:01
Al Porter: sex and the single comicAt 21, this Irish comedian already has a triple lock on old-school triple entendresSat Jan 31 2015 - 00:15
Ethical questions raised when a murder becomes a Serial podcast sensation‘Such has been the cultural ubiquity of the weekly murder mystery podcast that the show has crossed over into the weird world of fandom’Tue Dec 23 2014 - 16:00
The cultural quotes of the year: madness, middle age and mother’s adviceA selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writersMon Dec 22 2014 - 01:00
Serial’s twist in the tale: the murder podcast caught up in an unfolding dramaListeners have been gripped by Sarah Koenig’s investigation of the conviction of Adnan Syed for the killing of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Now the case is heading back to courtSat Dec 06 2014 - 08:00
Throw your arms around the world . . . It’s Band Aid 30‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ will probably top the charts next month, with proceeds going to help fight Ebola. But what are the odds of Bob Geldof staging another Live Aid?Sat Nov 15 2014 - 01:00
Ask.fm may base itself in Ireland, but social-media abuse isn’t about geographyThe controversial website is moving to Dublin. Asking it to go elsewhere wouldn’t stop online abuseSat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00
