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Martha Wainwright: ‘Hopefully I can write another Bloody Mother F***ing Arsehole, as that’ll pay the mortgage’

After her forthcoming brace of Irish gigs, the singer plans to take a year off to digest all that has happened since her divorce, and to begin writing again

House Plants: Dry Goods – Vigorous bouncy electro-pop

Martha Wainwright: ‘I don’t want to say everything is dependent on the love of a man’

The songwriter on the before-and-after of Covid, family break-up and finding love again

Boys in the better band: Fontaines DC head this week’s best rock and pop gigs

Dido, Happy Mondays, Aldous Harding, Rufus and Martha Wainwright . . . and Whitney

Rufus Wainwright: ‘I’ve played Dublin all my life, really’

Rufus and sister Martha discuss grieving for their mother, performing Christmas songs with family

Martha Wainwright on Trump, turning 40 and her mentor Leonard Cohen

The singer also told the Roisin Meets podcast about the curse-laden song she performed the night Donald Trump was elected

How to scare your children with the Wainwright Sisters’ creepy songs

Martha Wainwright and her half-sister Lucy have a dark, strange new album that they reckon is for all the family

Various Artists: The Joy of Living – Album Review

How Music Works: taking Sligo Live from regional curio to international renown

Niall Byrne talks to people who make a living in the Irish music industry. This week, Shane Mitchell of Sligo Live explains the festival’s volunteer-driven, non-profit ethos

Rufus Wainwright: ‘I’ve enjoyed experiencing everything. Get married. Have kids. Do drugs. Not in that order’

Interview: Wainwright’s desire to live stopped him from going the way of Kurt Cobain or Elliott Smith, and he has since found stability as a family man and opera composer

Review: Printer Clips

Paul Noonan’s project has plenty of personalities involved; if only they could resolve their differences

What’s on around Ireland this weekend

Scarefield at Airfield, Oireachtas na Samhna and the Wexford Opera Festival

The Gloaming: ‘There’s a kind of experiment happening every night’

The quintet’s music isn’t traditional, nor is it classical: it’s contemporary music that insinuates itself within the subconscious, and it’s very exciting. There is no master plan, they say, ahead of the release of their debut album