Judging panel should keep Choice realWHILE THERE CAN be a self-conscious, overly earnest and cultural snobbery aspect to awards that emphasise artistic merit over…Wed Mar 07 2012 - 00:00
Artists turning their backs on legal streaming is short-sightedGRAMMYS, BRITS, yada yada – it’s the wretched music industry award season and it’s all happy-clappy as champagne is uncorked, …Fri Feb 17 2012 - 00:00
Demise of power ballad diva a reminder of the dark side of showbusinessFROM BILLIE Holiday through to Judy Garland and up to Amy Winehouse, it can seem like there is a macabre life script available…Mon Feb 13 2012 - 00:00
Queen of the Super Bowl has the bean-counters buzzingREVOLVER: SOME 111 MILLION TV viewers watched last Sunday night’s Super Bowl, but 114 million TV viewers watched Madonna’s half…Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:00
Tired and emotional online? There's an app for thatSMALL PRINT: LAST NIGHT Never Happened is the world’s first “morning after” appFri Feb 03 2012 - 00:00
Leonard Cohen: A secular saintFron the archive: Leonard Cohen talks to Brian Boyd about rapturous audiences, his love of Yeats and how he has temporarily given up smokingSat Jan 28 2012 - 00:00
Give me a crash course in . . . internet piracyWhy couldn’t I get on to Wikipedia last Wednesday? As a protest against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in the US…Sat Jan 21 2012 - 00:00
Pop gets set to eat everything in its path in 2012THE TOP OF the Irish and UK album charts in January 2011 saw Bruno Mars and Adele battling it out for the top positionFri Jan 20 2012 - 00:00
Promoters could take a cue from the canny Coachella crewREVOLVER: BRIAN BOYD on musicFri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Gilding the literary hatchetSMALL PRINT: THE OLD saying that there’s never been a statue built in honour of a critic still holds true, but at least now …Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Hannigan favourite on Choice music prize shortlistTHE 10 nominations for this year’s Meteor Choice Music Prize have been announced, with singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan already…Thu Jan 12 2012 - 00:00
It's better to burn out . . . or do a tour that earns you millionsREVOLVER: A 52-YEAR-OLD singer who hasn’t bothered the limelight for well over a decade raked in more than $53 million for her…Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Live music thriving, but are festivals out of tune?OPINION: THE SPECULATION about whether Ireland’s biggest music festival – the annual Oxegen event in Punchestown, Co Kildare…Wed Dec 21 2011 - 00:00
Gaybo takes to the stage for a thrilling feast of tall talesIN HIS five decade broadcasting career, Gay Byrne was “the man who changed Ireland”Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Damien Rice's 'Cannonball' also a winnerKILDARE MUSICIAN Damien Rice stands to make a small fortune after it was announced last night that Little Mix, will release his…Mon Dec 12 2011 - 00:00
How to bring back the click-a-clack magic of the typing poolSMALLPRINT: THERE IS A BEAUTY to the typewriterMon Dec 12 2011 - 00:00
Please please please - don't ignore Irish roots of The SmithsREVOLVER: BRIAN BOYD on musicFri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
Animal behaviour lights music sellers' Fire as radioplay proves hotARE YOU a Committed, a Convert, Comfortable, Casual or Content? This is how trade body the National Association of Recording …Fri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
One giant leap for childrenSMALL PRINT: A RECENT Nielsen survey in the US found that the first choice of Christmas present for 6- to 12-year-olds this …Mon Nov 07 2011 - 00:00
The best new Irish talent on the DJ circuit? That much is Krystal KlearYOU’VE probably forgot all about a musical subgenre called new jack swingFri Nov 04 2011 - 00:00
Déjà vu no bother for born-again mistress of reinvention del ReyTHE first Best New Act of 2012 gong was given this out this weekFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Bono: 'If we don't come up with a good reason to make a new album, we should just f*** off'‘Achtung Baby’ was the making of U2. As the album is rereleased after 20 years, alongside a film about the band, Bono and Edge recall the turmoil that surrounded the recording and talk about their futureSat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00
Westlife to split after 14 harmonious yearsTHERE MAY be no need for a special telephone line to be opened up to provide counselling to distraught fans (as happened when…Thu Oct 20 2011 - 01:00
Cameron's kiss of death for KillersSMALL PRINT: YOU CAN say goodbye to The KillersMon Oct 10 2011 - 01:00
The Simpsons: worth more dead than aliveFOR RUPERT MURDOCH, the Simpsons are probably worth more dead than aliveSat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00
The Special One eyes his prizeWhen you like to talk as much as Mario Rosenstock it can’t be easy keeping secrets – especially if that secret is that you’ve…Tue Oct 04 2011 - 01:00
Make mine a two-thirds, barmanSMALL PRINT: COULD I have a venti Heineken and a grande Carlsberg please? This could be a new order in Irish pubs now that beer…Fri Sept 30 2011 - 01:00
Music shop 'bans' Adele songsIT USED to be guitar shops with signs saying “No Stairway To Heaven please”, but with changing music times the plea from music…Thu Sept 22 2011 - 01:00
It's the end of R.E.M. and they feel fineR.E.M., ONCE one of the world’s biggest rock bands, expressed their “deepest thanks” to fans yesterday as they announced they…Thu Sept 22 2011 - 01:00
'Game of Thrones': the next seriesSMALL PRINT: FANS OF Game of Thrones , the hit fantasy drama with endless Irish connections, are going to have to wait until…Mon Sept 19 2011 - 01:00
The rock'n'roll war poet‘ARMS AND LEGS in the trees. There is flesh quivering in the heat. There are deformed and orphaned childrenSat Sept 10 2011 - 01:00
Colour colours the nominations for British Mobo awardsREVOLVER: THE HEATED debate around this year’s Music of Black Origin Awards is just another example that no one anywhere knows…Fri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Double winner: PJ Harvey takes Mercury Prize againEnglish singer Polly Harvey has become the first person to be a double winner of the Mercury Prize – the annual award given to…Wed Sept 07 2011 - 01:00
Nutritionism fads? I just find them hard to swallowI’M IN love with a liberal foodie intellectualWed Sept 07 2011 - 01:00
