‘That idea of coldness with electronic music is starting to wither away’So says East India Youth, who is behind one of the year’s best electronic albumsThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:00
Kasabian: “Put that in your record collection and shut your mouth”Kasabian’s fifth album is their bolshiest to date, if you can believe it. Frontman Tom Meighan talks electronic influences and why the Leicester quartet are worthy Glastonbury headlinersFri Jun 13 2014 - 00:00
Why the Big Gay Sing is good for youThe Big Gay Sing is a karaoke-like celebration that encourages audience participation - but what it is about singing in a group that is so therapeutic?Fri Jun 06 2014 - 00:00
Festivals worth the tripNo need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivalsSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
New direction: what will 1D do next?All good things must come to an end, even the greatest boyband of all time. The future is not certain, but it may go something like this ...Fri May 16 2014 - 00:00
One Direction: What makes them beautifulThey went from X Factor also-rans to the world’s biggest boyband in the space of three years, but how did they do it? We chart the rise of Liam, Louis, Harry, Zayn and Niall from giddy teenagers to chart-topping superstars ahead of their Croke Park gigsFri May 16 2014 - 00:00
Review: Damien RiceThe singer is on the comeback trail, and, although he occasionally drifts into self-indulgence, when he just sings he is on glorious formThu May 15 2014 - 15:28
Tori Amos: ‘I wasn’t prepared for it. I was staring 50 straight in the eye’Amos returns to her alt-pop piano roots on new album Unrepentant Geraldines, ‘a sonic selfie that I didn’t send to anybody’. She tells how her family snapped her out of the shock of reaching a half-centuryWed May 07 2014 - 01:00
Foxes: Louisa Rose Allen’s brush with stardomLouisa Rose Allen, the woman behind the Foxes pseudonym, has already tasted major success as a guest vocalist on an EDM hit. Now she’s striking out on her own with a Glorious debut albumFri May 02 2014 - 00:00
Ed Hamell: ‘A bald guy who swears at the audience and plays loud guitar’Hamell, part musician, part comedian, doesn’t deserve his reputation for being angry. Passionate and opinionated? AbsolutelyTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
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
