The Music Quiz: ‘January’s always bitter but, Lord, this one beats all’ sings Garth Brooks on...?
To usher in 2022, a holiday hungover quiz devoted to the ‘Monday of months’
To usher in 2022, a holiday hungover quiz devoted to the ‘Monday of months’
Plus: Christmas with the Devil is an ode to a Satanic season by which metalheads?
Primal Scream and Savages join forces on a compelling country-soul duets album
The LA-based Dublin producer who worked with U2, REM and Snow Patrol has his own album out
Drummer on hits by Sinatra, Presley and Beach Boys ‘greatest ever’, says Brian Wilson
The Shins founder and sole trader might have made a summery musical gem, but he says it was a painful process: 'My wife doesn’t look back on this last year as the easiest of times'
Primal Scream’s new album, Chaosmosis, finds Bobby Gillespie – a garrulous interviewee – more together than ever. He reflects on the drug years, getting older and his love for young bands
‘Heartworm’ is one of Irish music’s most acclaimed albums but it brought Whipping Boy little success. Twenty years on, the former band members reflect on its complex legacy
The late John Peel’s BBC ‘sessions’ over 37 years are pored over in this exhaustive, thrilling and humorous analysis of an uncompromising tastemaker
The Mad Men star on singing with The Jesus and Mary Chain, her new Irish movie Standby, and being constantly badgered for spoilers about the hit TV series
Aoife Barry's shines a light on new Irish music - its new artists, new releases and new endeavours
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices