Spotify increases prices for Irish subscribers as Daniel Ek prepares bid for Arsenal

Premium plans will cost up to 20% more after string of podcast investments

Tim Burgess: The listening parties are here to stay

The Charlatans frontman on why he will not monetise his hugely successful Twitter series

The best 50 Irish music acts right now – in order

It’s a particularly thrilling time for Irish music – here’s our countdown of the finest

Music title Q Magazine folds after 34 years as Covid-19 hits media sector

Bauer Media Group listed magazine for sale in May after sharp fall in advertising revenue

Covid-19 has turned the volume up on musicians’ cut from streaming

Even before the crisis, artists had a right to be fed up with paltry recorded music earnings

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

Tim Burgess: On my culture radar

The Charlatans frontman-turned-actor on Stephen Morris’s autobiography, Newry actor Susan Lynch, Craig Parkinson’s acting podcast and laughing with Bob Mortimer

Andrew Weatherall, DJ and Primal Scream producer, dies aged 56

The remixer and musician, who took acid house into the mainstream, suffered a pulmonary embolism

Its a festival fest for May: this week’s rock and pop highlights

Drogheda Arts Festival, Kilkenny Roots Festival and Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast all kick off this week. And Ed Sheeran takes over Cork for an entire weekend

The Charlatans – Different Days album review: solid songs that will age well

Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon - Same Language, Different Worlds review: a pretentious mess