Walpurgis Family - Live Your Life Around It album review: less melancholy, more merrimentWALPURGIS FAMILYLive Your Life Around It ****Popical IslandThu Nov 24 2016 - 14:25
Dear Santa: Can I ask for the AIBA to just wise up and show fair play?Boxer Paddy Barnes wants an end to cheating in the sport, and if there are any bikes going spare . . .Thu Nov 24 2016 - 00:00
Metallica – Hardwired . . . to Self-Destruct: Twisted pleasure amidst the debrisThu Nov 17 2016 - 16:22
Ian Whitty & the Exchange - Cash Crop album review: Something for everyoneIAN WHITTY & THE EXCHANGECash Crop ***Self-releasedThu Nov 10 2016 - 16:22
The Heavy Entertainment Show: Robbie Williams drops his best album in yearsWith collaborators such as Ed Sheeran, Rufus Wainwright, John Grant and The Killers, Williams is once again ready to entertain youThu Nov 03 2016 - 10:34
Barry McCormack - The Tilt of the Earth album review: shimmering sounds, canny storytellingThu Oct 20 2016 - 12:22
Mick Flannery - I Own You review: Socially aware if a bit risk-averseMICK FLANNERYI Own You *** Universal Music IrelandThu Oct 13 2016 - 16:22
Bell X1: A strange journey to their ‘difficult’ seventh albumWriting the follow-up to their hugely acclaimed ‘Chop Chop’ album prompted a lot of soul-searching for the band, but in the end they followed their heartsThu Oct 13 2016 - 11:00
Wallis Bird takes the long road to Home and happiness“I don’t have a plan – I just want to be able to express my love.” After a decade of ups and downs, the Wexford-born musician has found her waySun Oct 09 2016 - 07:24
Wallis Bird - Home review: Wallis wears her heart on her sleeveWALLIS BIRDHomeMount Silver/Caroline International4Thu Sept 29 2016 - 14:25
Passenger - Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea album review: mind-numbingly ordinaryThu Sept 22 2016 - 21:15
Devendra Banhart - Ape in Pink Marble album review: freak-folkie still charmsThu Sept 22 2016 - 12:18
Booka Brass - Chilled Milk album review: brimming with pep and infectious energyThu Sept 15 2016 - 17:45
Cathy Davey: “I can’t access interesting things when my brain is thinking, is the internet working?”After a six-year hiatus, Cathy Davey is back with new album New Forest - and a whole new level of insight about humans, nature and what really matters in lifeFri Sept 09 2016 - 06:03
KT Tunstall - Kin album review: a pop-rock turn towards the middle of the roadThu Sept 08 2016 - 21:15
Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon - Same Language, Different Worlds review: a pretentious messThu Sept 01 2016 - 21:45
The Spitfires – A Thousand Times review: brazen jauntiness nods to Paul WellerWatford four-piece’s second album combines brawny vocals and mod-infused indie-rockThu Aug 25 2016 - 21:45
Wild Beasts and where to hide from themTheir new album is an ‘emotional apocalypse’ of brutal, relentless brashnessFri Aug 19 2016 - 06:00
The softer side of all new White DenimThe Texan band are back in a new guise and with a more live, less tightly wound soundThu Aug 11 2016 - 06:00
Album of the Week - Nao’s For All We Know: bursting with heartache, soul and grooveFri Jul 29 2016 - 06:15
Chvrches: ‘Seeing fans with tattoos of your lyrics never gets old’Lauren Mayberry of Scottish electro-pop band Chvrches has always had plenty to say, whether about misogyny directed at women in music or her shock at BrexitThu Jul 14 2016 - 06:00
Faithless DJ Sister Bliss: 'The industry is pretty much run by men'"I know that I’ve hopefully done some trailblazing in my field and helped to put dance music on the map," says Faithless DJ Sister BlissThu Jun 30 2016 - 12:59
Bat for Lashes - The Bride album review: intriguing concept left standing at the altarThu Jun 30 2016 - 12:58
Glimmermen - Breakin’ Out album review: a concise collection from the Dublin quartetThu Jun 23 2016 - 15:15
