Bert Berns: label boss, friend to wiseguys and foe to Van MorrisonRemembered with equal parts animosity and affection, the Bronx-born music man blazed a trail in an era of industry pimps, visionaries and gangstersTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
Through the looking glass: why Lyla Foy won’t go Google-eyedA musician who puts the music before the celebrity? Strange. But Londoner Lyla Foy, who plays Kilkenny Roots Festival, wants the music to be heard before she is seenFri Apr 25 2014 - 00:00
Printer Clips: Paul Noonan’s romantic and melancholy duetsThe Bell X1 man’s side project teams him up with female stars such as Lisa Hannigan and Joan as PolicewomanMon Apr 21 2014 - 01:00
Paolo Nutini: say goodbye to Mr ChipsThere’s a guy used to work down the chip shop . . . now he’s a star breaking down all remaining resistance with a different-sounding albumFri Apr 11 2014 - 01:00
Watt’s landing: Ben's back with everything but the girlAfter a decade away from the limelight, during which he's been DJ-ing and running a record label, Everything but the Girl guy Ben Watt is back with a solo album and an acclaimed memoirFri Apr 04 2014 - 00:00
Review: Gary BarlowAn average mish-mash of a show that is lacking the X factorTue Apr 01 2014 - 15:00
Detective work uncovers a Handsome theme tuneNow their song is the theme fo ‘True Detective’, The Handsome Family have been lifted from obscuritySat Mar 29 2014 - 01:00
Review: Pantha du Prince and the Bell LaboratoryElectronica royalty joins up with bell ringers – and somehow it worksFri Mar 28 2014 - 17:34
Lulu James: “I’m going to become the star I want to be”Lulu James has a vision to “create 21st-century soul properly”. And what exactly is 21st-century soul, you might ask. “Well, it’s me . . . ”Fri Mar 28 2014 - 00:00
Exclusive album stream: Simone Felice, StrangersStrangers gets a four-star review from Tony Clayton-Lea, in advance of the Irish leg of his tour from March 28th-30thThu Mar 20 2014 - 16:50
Metronomy’s Joe Mount harnesses the power of pop“I’ve always known that to understand me, it would take a few records” – four albums in and Joe Mount has found his true pop callingFri Mar 07 2014 - 10:50
Review: Rufus WainwrightWainwright moves from making it up as he busks along to superlative show-stopping momentsWed Mar 05 2014 - 17:17
Up, up and away with Guy GarveyElbow’s latest album, `The Take Off and Landing of Everything', sweeps and soars in all the right places. At the band’s Blueprint studios in Salford, Guy Garvey muses on the ups and downs of a band that refuses to remain earthboundFri Feb 28 2014 - 00:00
Reeve Carney on life, music, Art and Spider-ManThe actor on playing Dorian Gray and Jeff Buckley, and that nightmarish Broadway showThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:00
Nels Cline: a guitarist’s guitaristFrom pop to country, and from experimental to jazz, it sounds as if Nels Cline of BB&C – best known among rock fans as a member of Wilco – can turn his hand to anythingFri Feb 21 2014 - 10:25
Damien Dempsey: ‘It was inevitable I’d get pigeonholed’The Donaghmede man talks about the working-class Dubliner stereotype and his ambivalence about being seen as an ‘issues’ songwriterFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
