Frankie obsesses; Miley’s gift; Avicii wants to grow up; and Bieber owns up, sort of

‘When the average employee wants to go on a journey, they find another job’

San Diego Comic-Con has become a pop-culture monster, attended by more than 130,000 people. Here are 10 things Liam Burke learned at this year’s carnival of costume-clad fans, Hollywood A-listers, and transmedia titans

Introducting our 2015 student diarists from a diverse community full of possibilities

Lou Reed, Joan Jett and Bill Withers join Beatles drummer as honorees for 2015

The fast-talking singer has robust views on insecurity, feminism and ‘Instagram fame’. Sinéad O’Connor needn’t have worried about her: this is one self-assured 22-year-old

School’s a challenge, Twitter’s a minefield and growing up in public is no picnic. But Games of Thrones star Maisie Williams wears her adolescent fury well

Every generation has a soundtrack of its struggle. Ian Maleney marches on, shouting slogans and carrying the banner of music into a new dawn. Are we ready to rock the system?

The Leeds band have so far enjoyed success without the crushing fame - but now that they're on Miley Cyrus's rader they can kiss all that goodbye . . .

Jillian Banks is accumulating fans and topping Next Big Thing polls worldwide with her brand of late-night electro-pop. The LA native discusses how her psychology degree feeds into her intimate music

Miley Cyrus let a homeless man accept her video of the year award

Once a crucial part of an artist’s career, these days the live album is all but extinct

Event at Royal Hospital Kilmainham, however, was an enjoyable festival experience

No shortage of X factor in raunchy but well-oiled stage show

It’s a fine line between superfan and stalker, but, when it comes to Miley Cyrus, our reporter is ready to cross it

Having sex with someone who has passed out is regarded by some as a ‘grey area’

Teen prodigy Jasmine van den Boegaerde – that’s Birdy to you and I – made her name with a cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love, then sealed her reputation with a fine album of original material. We catch up with her before her gig at Vicar St in Dublin

Gamer beat Turkish music channel MÜ-YAP and Miley Cyrus during second half of 2013

One Direction are nominated in worst band category alongside The Wanted

Web culture has opened our eyes to comical felines, careful whispers, hijacked reviews of a canvas print of Paul Ross, epic fails, planking and owling, and ‘erotic’ fan fiction

What better way to end the year in pop culture than with a Nativity play featuring all of our favourite stars?

Irish Google users fascinated by Miley, Paul Walker and a New Mexico crystal meth dealer

The Irish are the biggest user of site in Europe

Lulu James whips out powerful soul grooves while Wilis Earl Beal is in opaque form at Dingle music event

Defiant in the face of despondency, Neko Case has produced a brilliant album from a dark place. The Vermont-based musician tells Lauren Murphy about her music, her menagerie and Miley

It’s not dress or no dress – it’s VIP, Platinum or Economy Class for show tickets

Singer (20) appeared to smoke a joint on stage during Amsterdam ceremony

A new book argues that our obsession with self-belief is leading to a culture of narcissism, that we should be less like Berlusconi and more like Merkel. Confidence should grow from competence and not the other way around

A large contingent of platform huggers witness Kenny’s Nasdaq moment

From twerking, to baking, to 50 shades of grey paint, here are some topical costume ideas for trick-or-treating

Non-stories about pop’s brightest star aside, in a race row there’s only one winner – Kanye West

Monina Mooney is nervously awaiting the challenge of parenting four teens at the same time

The singer’s open letters to Miley Cyrus are right: the former Hannah Montana is so driven to dissociate herself from her Disney days that she’ll comply with the production of imagery nearly as blatantly pornographic as anything produced of me in an early-1990s brothel

Faces of Facebook

The bra has always had a cultural significance that goes far beyond its purpose as, in the immortal words of Bette Midler, ‘an over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder’