Drawn to music: The eye and ear of illustrator David Rooney

What are the lines that connect a visual artist with the medium of sound?

Charley Pride, country music’s first black superstar, dies aged 86

Musician died of complications associated with Covid-19

Ed McGinley: Tangled Roots & Twisted Tales review – A slow-burning pleasure

Musician’s debut solo recording is all the better for its lengthy gestation

Late Late Country Special: ‘I’m Ryan Tubridy and I eat dinner in the middle of the day’

Patrick Freyne on RTÉ’s annual reach-out to the ‘irradiated wasteland beyond Greystones’

Fats Domino, rock’n’roll pioneer, dies aged 89

The star whose hits include Blueberry Hill and Ain’t That a Shame sold more than 110 million records

Leonard Cohen: He’s our man

Writers, poets, friends and fans reflect on Leonard Cohen’s words, music and work

Leonard Cohen: the key songs and what they mean

From his 1967 debut album to the final recordings, here are 10 of Leonard Cohen’s best songs and lyrics

Versatile underpinnings for Volvo’s new 40-series

Twinned concepts preview 2017’s XC40 crossover and new V40 hatch

Mike McCormack: ‘I had the canny idea of writing a long sentence instead of a book’

In his novel Solar Bones, McCormack has written an expansive tale about a ghost, which is also a ‘hymn to engineers’

Bono: the voice of innocence and experience

In a fast car in Italy, the U2 singer takes a ride through the band’s Dublin roots

US country musician shot dead by bounty hunter in gunfight

Randy Howard was wanted on DUI charge, previously shared stage with Willie Nelson

New Orleans on a plate

They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. With its rich Creole cuisine, there’s no better place to test this old proverb than New Orleans, Louisiana. Here’s how three Irish lads ate their way through the Big Easy

Leonard Cohen at 80, still a tower of song

The legacy of Jeff Buckley’s amazing Grace, 20 years on

As the only studio album released by the singer in his lifetime, Grace represents all that was lost with Buckley’s tragic early death