Howard Shore knows the score, from Cronenberg to Middle EarthFrom his early work on TV’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ and David Cronenberg’s film ‘The Brood’, through to the daunting task of scoring the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, the composer looks back on his eclectic career to dateThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:00
Mark Oliver Everett: pain, regret and tracksuitsThe Eels man has again translated pain into song, pointing the finger at himself over love gone sour on the band’s new album. So why does he sound so chipper?Wed Apr 23 2014 - 01:00
More than one direction for Fiona BevanShe co-wrote ‘Little Things’ for One Direction with Ed Sheeran and has been mentored by Adam Ant – but now singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan is going it alone with her own brand of “pop in disguise”Fri Apr 18 2014 - 00:00
Block party: Wallis Bird on building her new soundEscaping London for Berlin had a drastic effect on Wallis Bird’s sonic palette. The Wexford woman talks about her newfound empowerment (and dirty club beats)Fri Apr 18 2014 - 00:00
Mama Kin’s crash course in Australian music and managementHusband and wife musicians Mama Kin and John Butler run an Australian arts-grant fund while negotiating their own music careersMon Apr 14 2014 - 01:00
The Lucius womenLucius co-frontwoman Holly Laessig talks about how the harmonising Brooklyn band grew out of a fun music-school projectFri Apr 11 2014 - 00:00
Born to be VileKurt Vile’s last album cemented his new-found popularity. The psychedelic indie rocker explains how going from lo-fi cult hero to in-demand musician takes some adjustmentFri Apr 04 2014 - 00:00
Review: Wild BeastsLive as well as on record, Wild Beasts prove themselves to be increasingly difficult to second-guessMon Mar 31 2014 - 16:30
Exclusive album stream: the story of DFF's Pouric SongsThey’re an Irish supergroup that blends chamber pop with rock and African influences, but don’t mistake DFF’s debut for `just another world music album’. Oh, and don’t ask them what their name means, eitherThu Mar 27 2014 - 13:00
San Fermin: strumming with the bullsEllis Ludwig-Leone’s band, named for the Pamplona festival but at home in Booklyn, blends classical craft and indie credTue Mar 25 2014 - 01:00
Wanted no more? The bad-boy boyband hang up their party hatsThey were the bad boys of the boyband bunch, the darkness to One Direction’s light – but now The Wanted are getting ready to say goodbye. Dubliner Siva Kaneswaran sets the record straight ahead of the band’s farewelll tourFri Mar 14 2014 - 00:00
Doo-wop, reggae, rock and soul: Joan as Police Woman spreads her wingsJoan Wasser is set to release her most musically diverse album yet, and this time . . . it’s still personalFri Mar 07 2014 - 00:00
Rufus Wainwright’s good vibrationsThe singer-songwriter has a galaxy of high-profile fans and a dizzying range of achievements under his belt – but has never troubled the top of the charts. Does that matter to him – and, if not, what does he focus on instead?Sat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
Tweety Pie – how Birdy went from doing covers to finding the fire withinTeen prodigy Jasmine van den Boegaerde – that’s Birdy to you and I – made her name with a cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love, then sealed her reputation with a fine album of original material. We catch up with her before her gig at Vicar St in DublinFri Feb 28 2014 - 00:00
Wild Beasts – “A bit ugly, a little bit crude, a bit awkward”“We’re getting better at flirting with disaster in our songs and getting away with it”. Wild Beasts mix it up for their fourth album, ’Present Tense’Fri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
Jezebels on the BrinkHayley Mary, singer and lyricist, tells how moving to London and dealing with self-doubt affected the Australian band’s second albumFri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
Hell’s Bells and disco ballsThe Shins frontman James Mercer on how he and Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton came up with the second Broken Bells album, ‘After the Disco’, and their mutual love of the Bee GeesFri Jan 31 2014 - 00:00
Dee Dee Penny - “I knew that there was no way I could commit what was coming out to record. It was devastating”Dee Dee Penny had almost finished writing her third Dum Dum Girls record when disaster struck and she lost her voice. She tells Lauren Murphy about how she survived the controlled chaos of the studio by going back to the bedroomFri Jan 24 2014 - 00:00
City and Colour: turning down the volume to make a bigger noiseCity and Colour was Dallas Green’s folkie side project while playing in a post-hardcore band. Now it’s the main attraction, and it’s given Green the confidence to stand centre-stageTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
The New Mendicants – the indie supergroup that begs to differIndie kingpins Joe Pernice of The Pernice Brothers and Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub pool their creative resources for a low-budget side project that’s yielding good returnsFri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
I Break Horses: dancing in the dark, and letting in the lightThe second album by the Swedish duo was inspired by gloom but aims for happiness with a dash of ‘Twin Peaks’Thu Jan 16 2014 - 01:00
Irish country music’s new big wheel keeps on turning onHow does a 23-year-old Scouser become the poster boy of the Irish country music scene? Nathan Carter’s mix of Daniel O’Donnell’s nice-guy demeanour and Tom Jones’s sex appeal has turned the ‘Wagon Wheel’ singer into both a star and a heartthrob – knickers includedFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
