The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention – Album of the year contenderThom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner cast a wide netFri May 13 2022 - 05:00
David Long & Shane O’Neill: Age of Finding Stars – An absolute joyFormer Into Paradise and Blue in Heaven frontmen’s skills have matured like a fine wineFri Apr 22 2022 - 00:00
Spiritualized: ‘We play rock’n’roll, so it’s inherently inept’Jason Pierce on how rock changed his life and Kurt Vonnegut inspired his latest albumWed Apr 13 2022 - 00:00
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Unlimited Love: Formulaic, bland, appallingTenth album from the Californian giants is about as welcome as nuclear endgameFri Apr 01 2022 - 00:00
Badhands: Far Away – Touching songs of love, loss and emotional fluxSecond album from Dublin composer and songwriter Daniel Fitzpatrick, aka BadhandsFri Mar 25 2022 - 05:00
Fontaines DC: ‘Ireland could really benefit from a socialist government’The Dubliners on identity, anti-Irish sentiment and ‘the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil’Sat Mar 19 2022 - 05:00
Loop: Sonancy – Space rock pioneers back in orbitFirst album in more than 30 years from Croydon cult band is a fine return to the frayFri Mar 11 2022 - 05:00
Telefís – A hAon: Theocratic electropop from the Irish diasporaCathal Coughlan and Jacknife Lee release a surreal concept album of sortsFri Mar 04 2022 - 05:00
Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie: a thrilling readPrimal Scream frontman’s riveting account of how a Glasgow boy created a soundtrack of a generationSat Oct 23 2021 - 06:00
Ross Turner: ‘Risk is a vital part of the creative process’Compilation recorded in National Concert Hall features leading lights of contemporary Irish musicSat Sept 25 2021 - 05:00
Monument Maker: David Keenan’s most accomplished book yetBook review: This 808-page monster staggers between France and the moon, the battle of Khartoum in 1884 and the second World WarMon Aug 02 2021 - 06:00
‘Foghorns are embedded in people’s minds’Debut author Jennifer Lucy Allan explains why she wrote a book about redundant coastal navigational aidsWed May 12 2021 - 05:00
Alan McGee: ‘I’m glad I’m sober and not an absolute nut job’Legendary Creation Records boss reveals the back story on a new biopic about his eventful lifeMon Apr 05 2021 - 05:00
‘I love Shane MacGowan. He’s the ultimate ... one of the last punks’Musician and film-maker Don Letts on Shane MacGowan, The Clash and being black in BritainTue Mar 23 2021 - 05:00
Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: ‘The Tories haven’t got a clue about culture’The frontman on sleep-talking, dying young, and what Brexit is doing to British musiciansThu Feb 18 2021 - 05:00
Stuart Staples: ‘The wrench of leaving a small town was very defining’Tindersticks singer on Nottingham, TV Personalities cover, Eimear McBride and new lpSat Feb 13 2021 - 05:00
‘Electronic music is in for an extremely challenging five years’Dance duo Bicep, aka Matthew McBriar and Andrew Ferguson, look back at their teenage clubbing roots, and forward to the future of dance musicMon Jan 25 2021 - 05:00
AC/DC: ‘We’ve never had anything but great times in Ireland’Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams on their love of Ireland and the rock comeback of the yearSat Nov 14 2020 - 06:00
I Wanna Be Yours: John Cooper Clarke’s magnificent and hysterically funny memoirBook Review: the self-proclaimed 'bargain basement Baudelaire' detonates zingers on every page of his highly entertaining memoirTue Nov 10 2020 - 06:00
Idles singer Joe Talbot: ‘Conor McGregor is an inspiration. There’s a severe vulnerability to him’Joe Talbot on teaming up with Jamie Cullum, working wih heroes and living in this angry ageTue Sept 22 2020 - 05:00
Jarvis Cocker: ‘The better the concert the less I remember of it’The Pulp singer talks about his new band, Jarv Is, and how he learned to stop overthinkingSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Fontaines DC: ‘We’ve no licence to speak for Ireland’The band on lockdown life, their second album and Aidan Gillen doing a video for a pintSun Jul 05 2020 - 06:00
A Winged Victory for the Sullen: ‘There is anxiety all over the world’Dustin O’Halloran, Adam Wiltzie talk about their music, life and death, and staging their biggest tour yetSat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00
The Murder Capital: ‘We’ve had people tell us watching us felt like a light switch turning back on’Their debut album, When I Have Fears, is easily one of the most anticipated releases in a fascinating year for Irish music.Tue Aug 13 2019 - 05:00
Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touringWed Jul 17 2019 - 06:00
Rolling Blackouts C.F.: 'All five of us have Irish connections'Singer-guitarist Tom Russo on family ties, keeping a day job and how they became one of rock's hottest ticketsTue Jul 09 2019 - 05:00
Hit Factories: How the industrial cities of Britain gave birth to extraordinary pop musicReview: Karl Whitney has penned an extremely important addition to modern music writingMon Jul 01 2019 - 06:00
Everything in a new place: The art of reimagining RadioheadRadiohead’s seminal Kid A and Amnesiac will get new leases of life at MusicTown 2019Sat Apr 13 2019 - 05:00
Keaton Henson: ‘I don’t like performing or anything that veers into that territory’Chronic anxiety prevents him touring, but classical music offers an outletSat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00
Damon Albarn: ‘Brexit has revealed terrible truths about the mental health of the English’The Blur frontman on ‘Merrie Land’, Britpop, Oasis, Morrissey and John LydonThu Nov 22 2018 - 05:00
Gavin Bryars: ‘I haven’t reached 100 yet, so I’m still relatively young’The 75-year-old English composer reflects on a life in music and his deep appreciation of Irish cultureSat Nov 17 2018 - 05:00
The Chemical Brothers: ‘Bernard Sumner called us a bunch of Wurzels’Ed Simons on the duo’s ninth album, surprising evergreenness and Féile ’95Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
Conor O’Brien: ‘It's almost impossible to exist here economically’Villagers’ main man on homophobia, returning to Dublin and his new albumSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
Shirley Manson: ‘I’m still a work in progress and a shambling mess’The Garbage frontwoman on her Dublin cancer scare, imposter syndrome, and her first 25 years in the businessSat Aug 18 2018 - 05:00
Autechre: ‘Something happens when you listen to music in the dark’The English duo on why they’re doing their electronic manoeuvres with the lights outSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
The 12 best overlooked albums of 2018 (so far)From an ambient legend to punk newbies, discover the music that deserves a second listenTue Jul 03 2018 - 06:15
Liam Gallagher at Malahide Castle: a stale stroll down memory laneThe ‘King Parka Monkey’ sends them home happy but the new material is weakSat Jun 16 2018 - 10:25
Gorillaz at Malahide review: Damon Albarn's triumphant live extravaganzaThe Gorillaz death disco is equally as entertaining and life-affirming as it is thought-provokingSun Jun 10 2018 - 08:29
‘The The is like a brotherhood or sisterhood. The door is never closed’The The are back after a 17-year break. Matt Johnson reflects on a life in music, fighting gentrification, modern politics and the transformative power of musicSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
‘As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness’Jon Hopkins on meditation, music, gigs and who he wants to collaborate withThu May 03 2018 - 05:00
Manic Street Preachers: ‘We want to outdo ourselves and people’s expectations’Singer-guitarist James Dean Bradfield on the Welsh band’s new album ‘Resistance Is Futile’, their favourite Irish venues, and why they are thrilled to be supporting Guns N’ RosesSat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
James Kelman: ‘Irish writers get cushy jobs because they never challenge a single damn thing’The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s sideSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
The Gloaming: ‘We’ve lost cohesion in our communities’Ahead of their sold-out concerts at the NCH, The Gloaming reflect on modern Ireland, women in trad, and how they work, rest and playMon Mar 05 2018 - 14:30
‘Freedom comes with getting older. You’re the one in charge of making decisions’Tracey Thorn, the voice of Everything But the Girl and Massive Attack, talks about her first album in seven years, #MeToo and getting olderTue Feb 27 2018 - 05:00
Franz Ferdinand are a band rebornAlex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHSWed Feb 07 2018 - 07:00
Shane MacGowan and me, by Nick Cave, Glen Matlock, Camille O’SullivanThe Pogues singer is celebrating his 60th birthday at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on Monday, January 15th. Here, his friends pay tributeSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:00
‘That Irish greeting of Sodom and Gomorrah? We thought they were saying good morning’British artists Gilbert & George are celebrating 50 years acting as one. They provocative pair look back on a controversial career, and an encounter with protesters in BelfastSat Jan 06 2018 - 05:00
Tony Visconti: ‘The thing with Phil Lynott was that he was visibly dying’The veteran record producer on Bowie, Morrissey and his problem with Steve AlbiniFri Jan 05 2018 - 05:00
Tony Visconti reveals work on new albums by Perry Farrell and Damon AlbarnThe producer says Farrell solo album and Albarn’s The Good, the Bad and the Queen will have new releases in 2018Wed Dec 20 2017 - 09:50
