Sly Stone

Sly Stone: ‘Life is a record. But where do you drop the needle?’

Funk legend’s memoir excels on music but endless accounts of drug busts get tedious

Mon Oct 16 2023 - 05:00

‘It’s been a wild ride’: funk legend Sly Stone announces memoir

Book will cover Stone's rise to fame, his contribution to funk music and his battle with drugs

Wed Mar 22 2023 - 12:34

Remembering Jimi Hendrix 50 years on: the guitar god and the Irish connection

Dave Tiger Taylor, whose band who toured with Hendrix, remembers his ‘magic’

Fri Sept 18 2020 - 07:46

The Waterboys – Good Luck, Seeker: Mike Scott refuses to rest on former glories

The Waterboys cover both familiar and new ground on their fourteenth studio album

Fri Aug 21 2020 - 05:00

Prince live in Ireland: ‘We gotta go – I got too many hits’

Cork in 1990; Dublin in 2002; and again in 2011, after that no-show in 2008, Prince showed his live game was every note as sharp and groundbreaking as his studio work

Thu Apr 21 2016 - 19:48

Curtis Harding: Soul Power | Album Review

Fri Jan 23 2015 - 00:00

Silk Rhodes: Silk Rhodes

Thu Jan 08 2015 - 16:00

Press play: 20 unmissable online gigs

Want to see James Brown, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and other megastars in concert for free? Head to YouTube for a trove of live music films

Fri Oct 17 2014 - 14:30

Our Love: Caribou’s Dan Snaith on the new album

The last Caribou record “Swim” put Dan Snaith and friends on top of the festival billing. The new album “Our Love”, he tells Jim Carroll is about reflecting his life now, including playtime with his three year old daughter

Fri Oct 03 2014 - 03:02