Gorillaz: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez review – great songs sandwiched between the disposable and cartoonish

Elton John, Robert Smith, St Vincent and Skepta guest on virtual band’s seventh

Des Cahill sounds out of tune as he swaps sport for music

Radio Review: Presenter seems ill-suited to venerable format as Off The Ball carries on regardless

Brendan Grace: Thanks for the Memories – ‘There won’t be a dry eye in the house . . . now f**k off’

Review: Poignant moments act as reminders to appreciate what you have when you can. Grace, ever the professional rascal, seems aware of it too

Damon Albarn: ‘Brexit has revealed terrible truths about the mental health of the English’

The Blur frontman on ‘Merrie Land’, Britpop, Oasis, Morrissey and John Lydon

The Good, The Bad & The Queen: Merrie Land review – Brilliant paean to Brexit Britain

‘Break-up and heartache is the worst pain you go through’

In conversation: Sally Foran and David Kitt

Tony Visconti: ‘The thing with Phil Lynott was that he was visibly dying’

The veteran record producer on Bowie, Morrissey and his problem with Steve Albini

Tony Visconti reveals work on new albums by Perry Farrell and Damon Albarn

The producer says Farrell solo album and Albarn’s The Good, the Bad and the Queen will have new releases in 2018

Stirring up a choice music mix at the Sugar Club

How Music Works: Mark Murphy of Choice Cuts on how he reinvented the Leeson Street venue as a musical mecca for a new generation of hip-hop, jazz, R&B and soul fans

Tony Allen: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Afrobeat drummer’s homage to hard-bop innovator

Irish entertainers on UN list of South Africa visits

State papers 1986: Government under pressure over proposed ban on South African produce as Dunnes Stores strike continued

Photographer Deirdre O’Callaghan's singular beat

New book features images and interviews with world’s most famous drummers