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Thanks to her attention to detail, Regan has presented tunes with a collective distinctive oomph

Nick Cave at the Abbey: A funny, strange and beautiful evening

The audience asks the questions in this raw, intimate and revealing show

Music from the archives: Karen Dalton’s It’s So Easy To Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best

Hidden treasures: Donal Dineen’s forgotten albums

People to watch in 2016: Music

From electronica to soulful sounds to “three black Irish kids making waves”, these music acts are worth listening out for this year

Flo Morrissey: Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful | Album Review

Lykke Li: ‘I had the blues and that was a good thing’

Sadness permeates the Swede’s third album. She talks about musical catharsis and how David Lynch led her to meditation

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Set your bearings to South by South West

In last week’s music media mash-up in Austin, Texas, the big names mingled with the wild, the innocent, the dreamers and the deluded: Here’s 20 of the best