Liam Gallagher: C’mon You Know – No unexpected surprises

Another bog-standard but curiously comforting offering from Oasis man

The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention – Album of the year contender

Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and drummer Tom Skinner cast a wide net

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes: Much pain, much gain

Primal Scream and Savages join forces on a compelling country-soul duets album

Elvis Costello: Hey Clockface review – A late-era mixed bag

It is hard to imagine this uneven collection of songs striking a chord beyond core fan base

Dream Wife: So When You Gonna review – Shouty pop and so much more

English band are an intoxicating mix of trashy fun and insightful commentary

Making Connections for older people - one garden concert at a time

How one befriending group brought performances to those cocooning during lockdown

Louth results: Labour’s Ged Nash wins back seat lost in 2016

FG’s Fergus O’Dowd, Independent Peter Fitzpatrick elected on tenth count with Nash

The Cranberries, Game of Thrones, 10 Good Friday traditions

News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers

Franz Ferdinand are a band reborn

Alex Kapranos talks about a new album, scoffing fish n’ chips in Galway, and why he wrote a song about the NHS

RHYE: New Blood review – painfully hip, trendy and well-crafted

Sue Rynhart: 'I'm happy expressing myself and being heard'

Dublin singer and composer speaks to the Róisín Meets podcast and plays three songs off her new album ‘Signals’

Dexys usher in their new Irish vision

Kevin Rowland opens up about his Irish roots, 1916, the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974 and an encounter with Muhammad Ali

Victim impacts statements over Donegal crash read out in court

Several family members of those who died did not want to see driver Shaun Kelly jailed

Russell Brand: edgy dilettante or bogus revolutionary?

Comment: Donald Trump, Piers Morgan are latest to vote on Brand’s revolutionary politics