Aoife Kelleher: ‘At my 30th my friends had to rescue the party from my morose playlist’

Soundtrack of My Life: The director on her lockdown listening, Francophilia, and Peppa Pig

New queer literature anthologies show the work done and the work yet to do

Book reviews: Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing and Queer Love are cause for celebration

On the Rocks: Bill Murray and Rashida Jones are perfect in Sofia Coppola’s latest film

Exasperated, bewildered Jones is at least the equal of her older costar in this exquisite film

Hozier: Wasteland, Baby! – Track by track review of his new album

Andrew Hozier-Byrne makes a welcome return with a very nearly five-star collection of songs

Suzanne Savage, Armon-Jones, Charlie Moon Quintet - The best jazz gigs this week

Audiences at Craig Taborn will hear a concert that no-one has heard before, or will ever hear again

Paul Banks of Interpol: ‘I was a mystery to myself for many years’

The frontman on his dark side, new lyrical clarity and rap influences on album No 6

David Rawlings takes a step towards Bob Dylan and Neil Young

The country star is known for his work with Gillian Welch but now he’s happy being out front

‘The memories I hold of my mother are not vast’

My memories are of comfort, loving eyes, a warm squishy body but also illness and hospitals

Opera in Belfast: A canter through 500 years of history, set in a deconsecrated church

Sung in the city’s unmistakable twang, ‘Long Story Short: The Belfast Opera’ is fresh, contemporary and slightly daring

12 Points festival is ‘a long way from three chords and the truth’

Jazz has become a ‘super-broad church’ and is no longer the preserve of middle-aged men, says Kenneth Killeen, the director of the four-day Dublin festival

Dan Bodan: Soft

SXSWx20: The best new music from the South by Southwest festival

Jim Carroll brings back the hottest sounds from the annual jamboree in Austin, Texas