Are U2 back already? This week’s must-see rock and pop gigs

Catch Metropolis, Cork Jazz Festival, Sligo Live, Westival, Robert Plant & Van Morrison, Johnny Marr, Chemical Brothers and Phosphorescent over the mid-term break

Wake the dead: Cork Guinness Jazz Festival kicks off

40,000 jazz fans to attend as New Orleans-style funeral procession hits town

Cork Guinness Jazz Festival to kick off with funeral procession

Line up includes American artists Maria Schneider and Nnenna Freelon

Brit music awards announce shakeup after #BritsSoWhite outrage

Changes to who votes make academy more gender-balanced and diverse after last year’s failure to nominate black artists, say organisers

Laura Mvula: ‘I won’t be recognised until I’m dead and gone’

Mvula has grave concerns about modern music and is no longer concerned about coming across as arrogant

LAURA MVULA: With Metropole Orkest

Tinie Tempah: Movin’ on up

Tinie Tempah has come a long way from his grime roots of old. Ahead of his forthcoming arena tour, he talks to Jim Carroll about going large – and looking back

Tinie Tempah: Demonstration

Irish band Villagers face tough competition for Mercury Prize

Laura Mvula favourite among 12 finalists including Bowie and Arctic Monkeys

Now that’s what I call 2013...so far

Why wait for those end-of-year lists, here’s the best albums and songs – until now

Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon