Aaron Dessner

Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream review – A fantastically eerie album informed by personal trauma

Florence Welch emerges from a hurricane of angst with perhaps her finest and certainly her stormiest record to date

Ed Sheeran has just released an album. Why didn’t he want The Irish Times to hear it?

On Play, Ed Sheeran returns to his day job of churning out annoyingly catchy bangers

Sharon Van Etten at Collins Barracks review: Cult songwriter puts a sublime goth twist on her confessional pop

When Sharon Van Etten plays in Dublin, Collins Barracks is the perfect framing device for a performance wreathed in dry ice and nicely chilled angst

Sharon Van Etten on making her latest album: ‘We were trying to conjure as many ghosts as we could’

The New Jersey native talks from her parents’ basement about Sinéad O’Connor, growing older and being an angsty teen

Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’

The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business

The National at All Together Now: A sad-dad singalong to cherish

Replacing Róisín Murphy at the top of Saturday’s bill, the band put on a performance that is more than just a showcase for diehard fans

Gracie Abrams: The Secret of Us – Indie-pop that will take some beating for integrity and directness

The American songwriter delivers music that connects, with help from Aaron Dessner

All of Taylor Swift’s albums ranked, from worst to best – plus which tracks to expect at her Eras tour Dublin concerts

From her debut LP, in 2006, to the epic, 31-track Tortured Poets Department, this is how we rate each of the star’s studio releases

Bryce Dessner of The National on his NCH residency: ‘It’s special for me. Ireland is a place where we feel comfortable and inspired’

The guitarist and classically-trained composer has a number of orchestral projects planned for autumn at the historic Dublin venue

The National in Dublin: a night of gusto, gloom and heartfelt melancholia ends in a big, happy sing-along

Singer Matt Berninger plunges into the crowd for hugs and selfies like a Taylor Swift for crestfallen middle-aged people

The National have just released a surprise album. Here’s how we rate Laugh Track

Album will be thrill for fans whose tastes veer towards fervid dynamics of old

The National: ‘The Irish are such great singers and musicians – it’s almost daunting in a way’

The music almost deserted the Cincinnati band when they began to write their latest album

Big Red Machine: How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last review – lingering goodness

Cillian Murphy confesses all in pounding sound and blinding light

All of This Unreal Time review: He unleashes a torrent of regret in this intense film installation