Joni Mitchell

After a career tackling difficult subjects, the singer-songwriter is releasing a final album

US indie icon talks about her childhood kidnapping and her repressive upbringing

It’s a big misconception ‘that I broke The Beatles up … Once a headline is out it sticks’

At 80, the superstar musician has survived heroin addiction, illness and tragedy

Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger mine their dangerous passions and restless ennui

Musician’s son produced his latest record featuring delicate and moving work

Programme draws on Donegal landscape with blend of in-person and online events

Introduction of beats and electronic elements overhauling many songs in the album

Not many artists can successfully crack open the hard shell that protects them from themselves

It’s too long and too in thrall to Blue-era Joni Mitchell, but there’s much to like here

The expat artist’s new album tackles the omertà over his home country’s recent past

Donald Clarke: You can’t beat 1981. Others will argue for 1967, 1989, 1995 or 2020. Nobody is right. Nobody is wrong

This album has seeped into our heads, song by song, and is an exercise in sheer simplicity

Norwegian musician has managed to wrest something very beautiful from depths of her grief

Paul Flynn: Here is a trio of delicious options for the many soup lovers in Ireland

The singer-songwriter has been doing extraordinary things ever since she arrived in Britain alone aged 6

The opening up of grounds to spectators has been a frustrating process for all involved

Six months ago, schools and colleges closed. What have we learned since?

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

Los Angeles sisters document personal difficulties on their best album yet

I forgot how much I missed the sight of grown men acting like children, just for fun

Review: Well-worn yarns of Laurel Canyon music in the groovy times get another airing

Experienced managers of remote workers promote importance of structure, consistency and leadership

At times like these, we can turn to music to soothe our souls and restore equilibrium

The auteur on his love of whistleblower films and the legacy of New Queer Cinema

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Mike Hanrahan has a renewed taste for the road as the folk rockers return to Tradfest

Ellie Goulding’s River reflects smart speakers’ new influence on the music charts

Struggling after 30 years away, I’m reminded it’s the small things that are important

We value commitments and one another’s time less than we used to

Outside, a frantic trade for tickets in the cold air. Inside, a bottomless love for the artist

Review: Talbot’s haunting reverie on contemporary urban discontents should be treasured

Developers are demolishing venues to build hotels, apartments and temples of finance

The UK/Russian singer’s second album channels Prince, Roberta Flack and Joni Mitchell

Prominent Irish figures recall their memories of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon

The KnockanStockan festival and Mac DeMarco are among the other highlights

Rolling Thunder Revue makes things up, but it's truer than other films we could mention

Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Allen Ginsberg feature in this epic chronicle’s new chapter

These 1960s and 1970s tunes oscillate wildly between schmaltz and soaring balladry

The singer on unhappy families and music as a path to processing domestic upheavals