Paolo Nutini: say goodbye to Mr ChipsThere’s a guy used to work down the chip shop . . . now he’s a star breaking down all remaining resistance with a different-sounding albumFri Apr 11 2014 - 01:00
Watt’s landing: Ben's back with everything but the girlAfter a decade away from the limelight, during which he's been DJ-ing and running a record label, Everything but the Girl guy Ben Watt is back with a solo album and an acclaimed memoirFri Apr 04 2014 - 00:00
Review: Gary BarlowAn average mish-mash of a show that is lacking the X factorTue Apr 01 2014 - 15:00
Detective work uncovers a Handsome theme tuneNow their song is the theme fo ‘True Detective’, The Handsome Family have been lifted from obscuritySat Mar 29 2014 - 01:00
Review: Pantha du Prince and the Bell LaboratoryElectronica royalty joins up with bell ringers – and somehow it worksFri Mar 28 2014 - 17:34
Lulu James: “I’m going to become the star I want to be”Lulu James has a vision to “create 21st-century soul properly”. And what exactly is 21st-century soul, you might ask. “Well, it’s me . . . ”Fri Mar 28 2014 - 00:00
Exclusive album stream: Simone Felice, StrangersStrangers gets a four-star review from Tony Clayton-Lea, in advance of the Irish leg of his tour from March 28th-30thThu Mar 20 2014 - 16:50
Metronomy’s Joe Mount harnesses the power of pop“I’ve always known that to understand me, it would take a few records” – four albums in and Joe Mount has found his true pop callingFri Mar 07 2014 - 10:50
Review: Rufus WainwrightWainwright moves from making it up as he busks along to superlative show-stopping momentsWed Mar 05 2014 - 17:17
Up, up and away with Guy GarveyElbow’s latest album, `The Take Off and Landing of Everything', sweeps and soars in all the right places. At the band’s Blueprint studios in Salford, Guy Garvey muses on the ups and downs of a band that refuses to remain earthboundFri Feb 28 2014 - 00:00
Reeve Carney on life, music, Art and Spider-ManThe actor on playing Dorian Gray and Jeff Buckley, and that nightmarish Broadway showThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:00
Nels Cline: a guitarist’s guitaristFrom pop to country, and from experimental to jazz, it sounds as if Nels Cline of BB&C – best known among rock fans as a member of Wilco – can turn his hand to anythingFri Feb 21 2014 - 10:25
Damien Dempsey: ‘It was inevitable I’d get pigeonholed’The Donaghmede man talks about the working-class Dubliner stereotype and his ambivalence about being seen as an ‘issues’ songwriterFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
Me & My Money: Dr Anne O’Donoghue, Northumberland Institute of Dental PracticeTue Feb 18 2014 - 01:00
Josef Salvat: the Aussie oddityUnlikely looking pop star Josef Salvat has been called the love-child of Morrissey and Lana Del Rey. Not quite, he says, he’s still a work in progress ...Fri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
John Murry: gracefully grumpyHe may be a bit of a grump but singer-songwriter John Murry’s “scarily honest” album ‘The Graceless Age’ is a bit of a triumph. ‘Songwriting? To me it just happens and that’s all there is to it,” he says.Fri Feb 14 2014 - 00:00
Former Cardigan Nina Persson on knitting cleverShe’s the singer with The Cardigans but there’s a lot more to Nina Persson. As she releases her first solo album proper, she mues on creativity, motherhood and being her own bossFri Feb 07 2014 - 00:00
IQ – Frenzy over Garth Brooks comeback ‘incredible’Q: Why did the tickets for the country superstar’s concerts sell out so quickly?Sat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
Dublin exposure: Citizen photography of U2 and other early punksMooching around the city with a mechanical camera, a young photographer captured a seminal period in Irish rock historySat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
Icelandic record-breaker Ásgeir gets found in translationAhead of the release of the English language version of his record-breaking debut – one in 10 Icelanders bought it last year – Ásgeir Trausti tells Tony Clayton-Lea about overnight sensationalism and how he got John Grant on translation dutiesFri Jan 24 2014 - 00:00
