Jenny Hval: The Practice of Love review – A wistful meditation on ageing

Collaborators lend earthy reality to record that is a tender sister to visceral Blood Bitch

Folk opera, Kraut-psych and punk thuggery: this week’s rock/pop highlights

Get thee to Micah P Hinson, Ulrika Spacek, The Stunning, Jenny Hval, The Fontaines, Vitalic, The Mountain Goats, Duke Special, Session Motts and Future Proof with Nialler 9

Una Mullally: National Concert Hall showing the way for other venues

And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up

National Concert Hall needs to go beyond classical music

‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’

Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens: Bewitching sounds for mind and feet

Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch album review: a triumph of time-travelling vampires and menstruation