Dear Santa: ‘You never brought the Sylvanian Family Mansion that I asked for every single year’Sailor and Olympic silver medallist Annalise Murphy is looking forward to enjoying Christmas dinner after years on a strict dietMon Dec 12 2016 - 00:00
Enemies - Valuables album review: Hasta la vista, EnemiesENEMIESValuables ****Topshelf RecordsThu Dec 8 2016 - 16:22
Raf Rundell - The Adventures of Selfie Boy Pt 1 album review: The Bear’s necessitiesRAF RUNDELLThe Adventures of Selfie Boy Pt 1 ****1965 RecordsThu Dec 8 2016 - 14:25
Dear Santa: ‘This year I’m grand for presents’Musician Wallis Bird would like her present to go to someone who has nothingWed Dec 7 2016 - 00:00
Dear Santa: ‘Remember that Chelsea jersey’Today FM presenter Ian Dempsey would like a bike . . . if it wasn’t for the lycraTue Dec 6 2016 - 00:00
Public Service Broadcasting - Live at Brixton album review: Sample sound effectsPUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTINGLive at Brixton ***Test Card RecordingsThu Dec 1 2016 - 16:22
Avenged Sevenfold - The Best of 2005-2013 album review: Hellishly good headbangingAvenged SevenfoldThe Best of 2005-2013 *** WarnerThu Dec 1 2016 - 14:25
Walpurgis Family - Live Your Life Around It album review: less melancholy, more merrimentWALPURGIS FAMILYLive Your Life Around It ****Popical IslandThu Nov 24 2016 - 14:25
Dear Santa: Can I ask for the AIBA to just wise up and show fair play?Boxer Paddy Barnes wants an end to cheating in the sport, and if there are any bikes going spare . . .Thu Nov 24 2016 - 00:00
Metallica – Hardwired . . . to Self-Destruct: Twisted pleasure amidst the debrisThu Nov 17 2016 - 16:22
Ian Whitty & the Exchange - Cash Crop album review: Something for everyoneIAN WHITTY & THE EXCHANGECash Crop ***Self-releasedThu Nov 10 2016 - 16:22
The Heavy Entertainment Show: Robbie Williams drops his best album in yearsWith collaborators such as Ed Sheeran, Rufus Wainwright, John Grant and The Killers, Williams is once again ready to entertain youThu Nov 3 2016 - 10:34
Barry McCormack - The Tilt of the Earth album review: shimmering sounds, canny storytellingThu Oct 20 2016 - 12:22
Mick Flannery - I Own You review: Socially aware if a bit risk-averseMICK FLANNERYI Own You *** Universal Music IrelandThu Oct 13 2016 - 16:22
Bell X1: A strange journey to their ‘difficult’ seventh albumWriting the follow-up to their hugely acclaimed ‘Chop Chop’ album prompted a lot of soul-searching for the band, but in the end they followed their heartsThu Oct 13 2016 - 11:00
Wallis Bird takes the long road to Home and happiness“I don’t have a plan – I just want to be able to express my love.” After a decade of ups and downs, the Wexford-born musician has found her waySun Oct 9 2016 - 07:24
Wallis Bird - Home review: Wallis wears her heart on her sleeveWALLIS BIRDHomeMount Silver/Caroline International4Thu Sep 29 2016 - 14:25
Passenger - Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea album review: mind-numbingly ordinaryThu Sep 22 2016 - 21:15
Booka Brass - Chilled Milk album review: brimming with pep and infectious energyThu Sep 15 2016 - 17:45
Cathy Davey: “I can’t access interesting things when my brain is thinking, is the internet working?”After a six-year hiatus, Cathy Davey is back with new album New Forest - and a whole new level of insight about humans, nature and what really matters in lifeFri Sep 9 2016 - 06:03
Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon - Same Language, Different Worlds review: a pretentious messThu Sep 1 2016 - 21:45
The Spitfires – A Thousand Times review: brazen jauntiness nods to Paul WellerWatford four-piece’s second album combines brawny vocals and mod-infused indie-rockThu Aug 25 2016 - 21:45
Wild Beasts and where to hide from themTheir new album is an ‘emotional apocalypse’ of brutal, relentless brashnessFri Aug 19 2016 - 06:00
The softer side of all new White DenimThe Texan band are back in a new guise and with a more live, less tightly wound soundThu Aug 11 2016 - 06:00
Album of the Week - Nao’s For All We Know: bursting with heartache, soul and grooveFri Jul 29 2016 - 06:15
Chvrches: ‘Seeing fans with tattoos of your lyrics never gets old’Lauren Mayberry of Scottish electro-pop band Chvrches has always had plenty to say, whether about misogyny directed at women in music or her shock at BrexitThu Jul 14 2016 - 06:00