Web play: Coldplay’s new single, Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall , will stream on their website from today

Web play:Coldplay's new single, Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, will stream on their website from today. The release date of their fifth album is yet to be announced.

Two heads:

Twinkranes and Thread Pulls will play four Irish dates together, including in Dublin’s Whelan’s on June 25th, and free gigs in Galway and Cork. 9-pt.com

New harvest

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: Gillian Welch will release her new album,

The Harrow & the Harvest

, on June 25th. It is her first since 2003.


Beck’s appeal:

Beck’s role as a producer shows no signs of abating. His latest,

Mirror Traffic,

the new album by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, will be released in August.

Lauren Murphy

Lauren Murphy

Lauren Murphy is a freelance journalist and broadcaster. She writes about music and the arts for The Irish Times