It’s oh so quiet: Exploring the role of silence in music
Experimental composer and guitarist Michael Pisaro-Liu’s 2013 work, asleep, wind, voice, poe gets its Irish premiere this month
Zappa: Love or hate him, Frank Zappa deserves respect
Alex Winter’s documentary portrait of the musician should win over the most resistant
Beck: ‘U2 had the best audiences of anyone I’ve opened for’
The Beck of 1994’s Mellow Gold seems a million miles from the 49-year-old releasing Hyperspace
Junior Brother: Pull the Right Rope review – The real paradoxical deal
Ronan Kealy’s style can sort the believers from the bemused
Ariel Pink serves up an irresistible lumpy pop milkshake
The essence of the thrills we’ve lost along the way to the convenience of modern music
What Irish Times critics are wishing for this Christmas
From the Gleesons’ ‘Walworth Farce’ to a 3D pen, there’s a perfect present for the artist in your life
Film review: Frank
Lenny Abrahamson’s superby eccentric movie about a group of supremely eccentric musicians reveals some powerful truths about art and the disordered mind
Lenny talks Frank: the movie that won't give him a big head
In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more
Ben Shepherd: Soundgarden take the grunge full circle
Ben Shepherd from Seattle survivors Soundgarden on his formative years, on getting the band back together and how he almost joined Nirvana after partying with Kurt Cobain
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