La Roux: ‘I knew I was a one-hit wonder. It’s not a secret’Five years after her world-beating debut, synth-pop sensation Elly Jackson is back with a tremendous follow-up, despite splitting with her writing partner and temporarily losing her voiceFri Jul 25 2014 - 01:00
Cher Lloyd: ‘I’m not the kind of girl to be falling out of taxis drunk and getting my bits out’The straight-talking X-Factor alumnus tells about finding success Stateside and returning just in time with her new albumFri Jul 25 2014 - 00:00
Conor Oberst: ‘I never felt that young to begin with, and now I feel like I’m 150’The Longitude headliner tells about going it alone for his new album, collaborating with First Aid Kit and writing a sci-fi screenplay for Monsters of FolkFri Jul 18 2014 - 00:00
Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys get Dublin crowd a hollerin’Travel problems persist for some of 32,000 Marlay Park puntersSun Jul 13 2014 - 12:18
A fictional band that owes a lot to Belle and SebastianIn the film God Help the Girl, three teenage misfits cross paths in Glasgow, agree that music is their salvation and form a band. So far, so Stuart Murdoch, who took a break from his real-life band to make his directorial debutThu Jul 10 2014 - 01:00
Foals: ‘It feels like we’ve entered this new, scary realm’Foals are part of a dying breed of guitar bands. And it’s working for them, as they make the leap to being festival headlinersTue Jul 08 2014 - 01:00
Dawn French talks 30 million miles a minuteShe might have been a mainstay of British comedy for the past 30 years, but Dawn French has never done a solo show – until nowSat Jul 05 2014 - 01:00
Review: EelsMark Oliver Everett might have a dour image, but here he is handing out the hugsThu Jul 03 2014 - 18:28
Paul Heaton: "Lovable grouch? Yeah, that’ll do. A lovable grouch"He may have reunited with former Beautiful South bandmate Jacqui Abbot for a new album and tour, but Paul Heaton will never, ever, get the band back together. "My only pang of regret was that I didn’t disband it early enough"Fri Jun 27 2014 - 01:02
Serious about prog: Matt Berry turns it on againBerry’s fifth album pays homage to Tubular Bells and other prog-rock classics. People are slowly accepting him as being more than an actor and comedian, he saysMon Jun 23 2014 - 01:00
Tom Odell is playing for keepsTom Odell is a hard one to pin down – the newest pop kid on the block, with an Ivor Novello award in his back pocket and the musical world at his feet but with little interest in the impending stardom. Ahead of his Dublin gig, the Songwriter of the Year talks Elton John, Lily Allen and Leo TolstoyFri Jun 20 2014 - 01:00
‘That idea of coldness with electronic music is starting to wither away’So says East India Youth, who is behind one of the year’s best electronic albumsThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:00
Kasabian: “Put that in your record collection and shut your mouth”Kasabian’s fifth album is their bolshiest to date, if you can believe it. Frontman Tom Meighan talks electronic influences and why the Leicester quartet are worthy Glastonbury headlinersFri Jun 13 2014 - 00:00
Why the Big Gay Sing is good for youThe Big Gay Sing is a karaoke-like celebration that encourages audience participation - but what it is about singing in a group that is so therapeutic?Fri Jun 06 2014 - 00:00
Festivals worth the tripNo need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivalsSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
New direction: what will 1D do next?All good things must come to an end, even the greatest boyband of all time. The future is not certain, but it may go something like this ...Fri May 16 2014 - 00:00
One Direction: What makes them beautifulThey went from X Factor also-rans to the world’s biggest boyband in the space of three years, but how did they do it? We chart the rise of Liam, Louis, Harry, Zayn and Niall from giddy teenagers to chart-topping superstars ahead of their Croke Park gigsFri May 16 2014 - 00:00
Review: Damien RiceThe singer is on the comeback trail, and, although he occasionally drifts into self-indulgence, when he just sings he is on glorious formThu May 15 2014 - 15:28
Tori Amos: ‘I wasn’t prepared for it. I was staring 50 straight in the eye’Amos returns to her alt-pop piano roots on new album Unrepentant Geraldines, ‘a sonic selfie that I didn’t send to anybody’. She tells how her family snapped her out of the shock of reaching a half-centuryWed May 07 2014 - 01:00
Foxes: Louisa Rose Allen’s brush with stardomLouisa Rose Allen, the woman behind the Foxes pseudonym, has already tasted major success as a guest vocalist on an EDM hit. Now she’s striking out on her own with a Glorious debut albumFri May 02 2014 - 00:00
Ed Hamell: ‘A bald guy who swears at the audience and plays loud guitar’Hamell, part musician, part comedian, doesn’t deserve his reputation for being angry. Passionate and opinionated? AbsolutelyTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
