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
Brian Eno
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
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