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
Me & My Money: Dr Anne O’Donoghue, Northumberland Institute of Dental PracticeTue Feb 18 2014 - 01:00
Josef Salvat: the Aussie oddityUnlikely looking pop star Josef Salvat has been called the love-child of Morrissey and Lana Del Rey. Not quite, he says, he’s still a work in progress ...Fri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
John Murry: gracefully grumpyHe may be a bit of a grump but singer-songwriter John Murry’s “scarily honest” album ‘The Graceless Age’ is a bit of a triumph. ‘Songwriting? To me it just happens and that’s all there is to it,” he says.Fri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
Former Cardigan Nina Persson on knitting cleverShe’s the singer with The Cardigans but there’s a lot more to Nina Persson. As she releases her first solo album proper, she mues on creativity, motherhood and being her own bossFri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
IQ – Frenzy over Garth Brooks comeback ‘incredible’Q: Why did the tickets for the country superstar’s concerts sell out so quickly?Sat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
Dublin exposure: Citizen photography of U2 and other early punksMooching around the city with a mechanical camera, a young photographer captured a seminal period in Irish rock historySat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
Icelandic record-breaker Ásgeir gets found in translationAhead of the release of the English language version of his record-breaking debut – one in 10 Icelanders bought it last year – Ásgeir Trausti tells Tony Clayton-Lea about overnight sensationalism and how he got John Grant on translation dutiesFri Jan 24 2014 - 00:00
It takes more than words to get to the heart of MogwaiAs indie instrumentalists Mogwai approach their 20th anniversary, Barry Burns and Stuart Braithwaite discuss lyric-free music, Scottish identity and the absurdity of the ‘post.rock’ labelFri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00
Music tastemaker angling to make grime payPaul Purcell is still a student at IADT but his record label Glacial Sounds is making wavesSat Jan 04 2014 - 01:00
James Vincent McMorrow: "I’m very ambitious, musically – I want to create great things"James Vincent McMorrow wants to create great things, not mediocre work. The guiding light for his new album “was to genuinely make something that I wanted to listen to”, he tells Tony Clayton-LeaFri Jan 03 2014 - 00:00
The hall guy: the man with a new plan for the NCHGary Sheehan has had a relatively radical year at the National Concert Hall – and he’s only getting startedThu Jan 02 2014 - 01:00
Desmond Dekker: Black and Dekker – The Complete Stiff Recordings 1980-1983 Cherry RedFri Dec 27 2013 - 10:26
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs: Under the Covers Vol 3 Shout Factory/Floating WorldFri Dec 27 2013 - 10:21
Review: Blades as sharp as ever after nearly 30 years awayPaul Cleary and the band were in a league of their own, with a set including ‘Ghost of a Chance’ and ‘The Bride Wore White’Sat Dec 14 2013 - 07:00
The stars of Xmas: seasonal gifts for music loversNo idea what to buy for that music fan in your life? Freak not for Tony Clayton-Lea has done all the legwork and found the most bad-ass, rock’n’roll pressies of the holiday seasonFri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00
