Stevie G: ‘In Cork everything seems to be open for six months’

In the How Music Works series, Niall Byrne talks to people about their life’s work in music. This week, Cork DJ Stevie G

Out of the studio and on to your phone: the apps musicians use

From something as simple as Apple’s Voice Memo to the Animoog synthesiser, here’s what 10 Irish musicians love having to hand

Young Wonder: Birth | Album Review

Rebel Yell: the Cork renaissance?

Cork’s ‘little hum’ of creative confidence is building to a crescendo, its artists say

Daithí: In Flight

Daithí Ó Drónaí: next stop, pop

Now that Ó Drónaí has rediscovered his love for pop music, the days of regarding him as just the ‘lad with the fiddle’ are well and truly over. He talks about his indie-trad-electro-math-rock progression and why the new album will be ‘pop from tip to toe’

Longitude day two: Local Natives, Villagers, Vampire Weekend

Local Natives delivered a superb set, after an instrumental dig out from Villagers who also gave them a run for their money in the show stakes, while Vampire Weekend had the double-edged sword of the headline spot