Anohni: ‘The Irish are fighting the good fight in so many regards’
The Mercury Prize-winning singer on Trump’s misogyny, climate change and preparing to celebrate her mentor Lou Reed in Dublin
Lou Reed
Suzi Ronson: ‘David Bowie called me, sobbing, the day after Mick died ... He hadn’t done anything to help’
Suzanne Fussey was a young hairdresser when she met David Bowie. It turned into a rock’n’roll life on the road – and marriage to his guitarist Mick Ronson
The Velvet Underground: ‘Every part of their story is extremely powerful’
Lou Reed and John Cale’s pioneering band created modern music, according to David Bowie, whose biographer has now chronicled their group and their legacy
‘If you look like Penn & Teller, you have to have the best magic trick ever seen’
‘Houdini used deception to help people recognise the difference between fraud and reality’
Andy Warhol: Profound artist, affectless hero, subversive icon
Warhol is set to eclipse Picasso with a $200m sale of Marilyn Monroe portrait, breaking records
Jim Kerr: ‘I’d been a rock star. I thought, What happened my life?
The singer talks about Live Aid, ex-wives and four decades of Simple Minds
First Look: Liss Ard Hotel in west Cork gets a ‘friend’s lavish pad’ makeover
A major refurbishment has been carried out at the former hangout of spies and rockstars
Johnny Cash gave her a daisy and the rest was history
The New York film maker who tumbled upon creativity in the haystacks of Kildare
Laurie Anderson: ‘An important voice? My friends don’t call me an important voice’
The musician and artist on CD-roms, cancel culture and her new show, The Art of Falling
John Murry: The Stars Are God’s Bullet Holes – Not for the faint of heart
One of the best collections of fuzzy indie rock and desert-dry Americana you’ll hear this year
Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
Michael Stipe: ‘Cold-ass b**ch was a coat I put on to protect myself. I can take it off now’
The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes
Oh! You Pretty Things review: The glam before the storm
Brit-heavy compilation goes some way to placing the pre-punk scene in context
The Hands of Franky Machine: A musical movie for the ears
Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape
Lucinda Williams: Good Souls Better Angels review – The tonic the world needs
A restoring curative for a fearful world, which beautifully balances vitriol and solace
The Boomtown Rats: Citizens of Boomtown review – not half good, not half bad
The best songs are slower, less prone to cliché but only in the first half of record
‘I have had a wonderful life’: Keelin Shanley remembered at funeral
Politicians and RTÉ colleagues pay final respects to ‘fearless and funny’ journalist
Rufus Wainwright: ‘I’ve played Dublin all my life, really’
Rufus and sister Martha discuss grieving for their mother, performing Christmas songs with family
Lankum: The Livelong Day review – A fierce and fragile masterpiece
Lankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic glory
Lou Reed the rock poet: When should songs be considered poetry?
Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme
Anarchy in the UK: Brexit, Billy Bragg and punk rock
The protest singer tells the Irish Times politics podcast punk was about solidarity, not Brexit-style masochsim
This Album Changed My Life: The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
Singer Wendy James on a band that was ‘beautiful, anti-social and incredibly musical’
Famous west Cork estate drops price by €2.5m
Liss Ard which has hosted arts festivals and famous musicians on market for €5m
Near the end of the marathon I am a total maniac, as my soul separates
At the finish line no one knows it took me more than an hour longer than I’d forecast
Louise Brooks: ‘I was always late, but just too damn stunning for them to fire me’
The dancer, actor, gossip columnist and muse was one of the most modern of stars
Gig of the Week: Beck and Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Dublin
Style-straddling singer and indie-punk trio make for odd but intriguing double bil
A walk on the real wild side of New York
NYC has a vast range of green space, from ancient forests to railroad gardens
Luas: Reshaping the city centre and its culture
What effect will the new line have on the arts and creativity in Dublin?
A Tribe Called Quest: one of hip hop's greatest ever journeys
Their Electric Picnic show will almost certainly be their last on Irish soil. Here's their extraordinary story, from the Queens early days to leaders of the resistance
Cover My Tracks review: Goodnight Galway, there will be no encore
Charlie Fink and David Greig’s smart, subtle collaboration depicts a relationship, a separation and a hard act to follow
David Corley: Gripping tunes delivered with dramatic drawl
David Corley: Zero Man, Wolfe Island Records, 4 stars
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