Music and artificial intelligence: ‘AI isn’t just a new sound. It’s a new infrastructure baked into our products and services’
Martin Clancy of AI:OK on the challenges and possibilities facing the music industry
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Songwriter Tamara Lindeman: ‘It’s scary. We all know Elon Musk is climate-informed. He’s not Trump. He’s not a madman’
For the Weather Station singer-songwriter, whose music is deeply concerned with the state of the planet, the Maga new world order represents a chilling departure from normality
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory by Brian Eno, Bette A. Nothing less than a call to arms
Brian Eno, musicial maverick and sometime U2 producer, and Dutch artist and writer Bette A explore what art is and its potential to help humanity to change course
Brian Eno: ‘I don’t like being admired, being revered. That makes me feel very uncomfortable’
Eno, who has worked with everyone from Bowie to Coldplay, discusses his new book with Bette Adriaanse, the use of AI in art and his idea of ‘scenius’
Timothée Chalamet: A Complete Unknown soundtrack review – In what world does this Dylanless Bob Dylan album make sense?
Star of new biopic deserves gold medal for effort, but you can only wonder about the target audience
Coldplay: Moon Music review - Saccharine, superficial pop and a feeble effort at a protest song
Moon Music is another album made with stadiums in mind; surface-level lyrics for instant connections
Jon Hopkins on his new direction: ‘There are no nods to dance music. I’ve dropped all attempts to fit into anything’
The electronic music maverick says his new album, Ritual, is not in a genre that can be easily labelled
David Byrne: ‘I couldn't write songs during the depth of the pandemic’
The Talking Heads frontman is opening an exhibition with sketches spanning 20 years
Radiohead: Kid A Mnesia – the greatest band in the world in 2000/2001
This stunning package brings Kid A and Amnesiac together, with bonus features
Fintan O’Toole: We need schools for messers, dreamers and misfits
Great explosion in English rock music was unintended result of art schools
Lexicon of Sound: Hypnagogia review – Ambient pleasures
Dubliner Colm Fitzpatrick eschews his indie roots for music of rumbling atmosphere
Collective artistic experiences are one of society’s safety valves
Latest Government announcements have delayed the promised increase in audience size for theatres and cinemas
Wolf Alice – Blue Weekend: Power pop, power ballads and grunge
London band deliver a safe but effective collection on their 'difficult third album'
Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis: She Walks in Beauty – A love affair with the Romantic poets
The English singer fulfils a long-held desire to draw on the works of Byron, Keats, Shelley et al
Marianne Faithfull on nearly dying of Covid-19: ‘My lungs are still not okay. I need oxygen’
The singer can’t remember intensive care. ‘I was in a very dark place – presumably, it was death’
Andrew Hamilton: Joy review – Charting direct line to beginnings
Six works on album sounds disarmingly home-spun
Is that concealer you’re wearing, Mr President? The rise of men’s makeup
Zoom fatigue, plus the arrival of Rihanna’s Fenty range, could create the perfect storm
Tim Burgess: I Love the New Sky review – Another delightful curveball
On the Charlatans frontman’s fifth solo album there’s lots going on in every song, but it never feels overcooked
Sunken Foal: Hexamose review – Prolific producer hits the sweet spots
Dunk Murphy delivers a seventh studio album, delicately layered as any chocolate treat
Pete Townshend: ‘I woke up with a needle in my arm and Phil Lynott standing there’
The Who guitarist on addiction, his new novel and why he’s still touring 40 years later
Blindboy: ‘Being recognisable is absolute hell’
The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
Angel Olsen: ‘I want to burn the house down, that’s the vibe I want to set’
‘Every time I play there, I always tell myself: This is gonna be a sober Irish show’
Samantha Power: I called Hillary Clinton a monster, but I didn’t mean it
Obama’s UN ambassador on her traumatic Irish childhood, Trump and ‘that’ interview
John Godfrey: pushing boundaries at the extreme ends of the musical spectrum
‘The primary core thinking behind quiet music is that this is a music you choose to engage with’
Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head review – A lost gem
Manzanera was eager to experiment with styles in a way Roxy Music could not
All hail the Walkman and its legacy of individual freedom
Blame the Walkman for bringing us all to the point of listening to music in isolation
Will Madonna be ‘bullied’ into pulling out of Eurovision in Israel?
The singer faces calls to boycott next month’s contest. But it is impervious to politics
Madonna to perform two songs at Eurovision 2019 in Israel
Madonna will sing as a special guest at next month’s Eurovision in Tel Aviv
Scott Walker’s work is woven into the musical fabric of the age
His beautiful voice and avant garde compositions influenced David Bowie and Radiohead
Dido: Still on My Mind review – time stands still for 1990s pop superstar
Songs that represent classic and contemporary takes on Dido’s style
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Nick Cave says cultural boycott of Israel is ‘cowardly and shameful’
Musician says boycott is ‘partly the reason I am playing Israel – to stand against those who shame and silence musicians’
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 Lydon
Sinéad O’Connor releases song inspired by Irish teenager killed in first World War
Cillian Murphy and Imelda May also involved in all-star EP based on letters from the front
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 out
Róisín Murphy: ‘My Irish family were wheeler-dealers, laying roads, collecting antiques’
The ex-Moloko singer on the freedom and heartbreak that inspired her favourite tracks
Johnny Marr: ‘A lot of people don’t even want to see The Smiths re-form’
The former Smiths guitarist on his third album, ‘Call the Comet’ – his most personal yet – and why he's happy to stay solo
Nick Cave at the Abbey: A funny, strange and beautiful evening
The audience asks the questions in this raw, intimate and revealing show
David Byrne: American Utopia review – Compelling reasons to be cheerful
David Byrne returns with a hopeful collection of songs to restore our faith in the world
The new brutalist backdrops and other views for a room
Home Front: Contemporary furniture for kids’ bedrooms and inspiring exhibitions
The Incredible Stream Band ‘captured the enchantment of winter to a child’
Daragh Lynch of Lankum on the album that changed his life and songs you have to hear
New artist of the week: DJ Seinfeld, king of the lo-fi house DJs
Lo-fi house has irked the dance establishment, and DJ Seinfeld is at the vanguard of the genre
Rostam: An interview with an ex-Vampire
The multi-instrumentalist, producer and Vampire Weekend co-founder on his solo album, his conflicted relationship with America, and why Brian Eno is his musical role model
Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘I’m not f**king around. This is hardcore’
Bestselling Norwegian novelist insists he is not a good writer. He has been corrupted by pleasing people, he says
Space Dimension Controller: ‘I can get really silly in my DJ sets’
How Music Works: Electronic producer Jack Hammill has been known to drop music from ‘Star Wars’ into his DJ set, but his own tunes have a wider cinematic scope
The appeal of Phil Collins? It's his friendly, happy face
Phil Collins, who plays Dublin on Sunday, is hip again – but for Patrick Freyne he always was
Life and death, night and day: the world of Mark Swords
The artist has created a world that is more than the sum of its parts
Ireland Now: the music that defines today’s Irish nation
In the run-up to St Patrick's Day, Irish Times writers select the acts that represent modern Irishness
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices