Mark Lanegan, the self-destructive musical underdog who came ‘home’ to Killarney

The grunge icon, who has died aged 57, never stopped making raw, rhapsodic music

Mark Lanegan: Straight Songs of Sorrow review – emotionally frayed, feral and beautiful

The morbid lyrics are inspired by scarifying details of Lanegan’s early life

Isobel Campbell: ‘I’m not an outright failure but I’m not successful enough for things to be easy’

A collapsed music label and a four-year wait to release her new album have tested the musician’s mettle

UNKLE - The Road: Part 1 review: gloomy soundtrack for the apocalypse

Lord Mountcharles to miss first Slane concert as Guns N’ Roses take stage

Slane Castle owner says he will be ‘there in spirit’ as 80,000 fans descend on Saturday

Various: Rough Trade Shops – Heavenly 25 | Album Review

Something for the Weekend

From goats to music festivals, the bank holiday weekend has something for everybody

Mark Lanegan’s own brand of wild success

Over a 30-year career, Lanegan has built a keen following if not the level of success of some of his friends. Which suits him fine

Fox Jaw: Ghost’s Parade

Stano: Unknown Distance

Ben Shepherd: Soundgarden take the grunge full circle

Ben Shepherd from Seattle survivors Soundgarden on his formative years, on getting the band back together and how he almost joined Nirvana after partying with Kurt Cobain

Longitude day three: Hot Chip, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kraftwerk

The big guns came out to play on the last day of the festival, but there were a few gems to be discovered away from the headline slots