Aimee Mann: ‘Any woman my age is traumatised by growing up in the 60s and 70s’

US indie icon talks about her childhood kidnapping and her repressive upbringing

Jack O’Rourke: Wild Place review – Chamber-pop class through and through

Forget about comparisons to Glen Hansard and other guitar-swinging troubadours

Roddy Doyle: ‘My unpublished first novel was sh*te’

He knew this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was good

Neil Innes: How Sweet to be an Idiot review – Serious musicianship and songwriting craft

Reissue of 1973 debut album is an introduction to his jaunty, satiric pop music

Rufus Wainwright: ‘I’ve played Dublin all my life, really’

Rufus and sister Martha discuss grieving for their mother, performing Christmas songs with family

Blindboy: ‘Being recognisable is absolute hell’

The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne

Have you noticed how Toy Story 4 isn’t so different from Chernobyl?

One is cinema that blurs into TV, the other TV that blurs into cinema. Both are brilliant

Is Marc Rebillet the funniest man on the planet right now?

Musical comedy improviser on becoming a globe-spanning favourite in a few months.

Randy Newman cancels two Dublin concerts

The veteran singer-songwriter has been forced to pull out of his European tour

Randy Newman – Dark Matter album review: A late career high for the master songsmith

The Meyerowitz Stories: Adam Sandler give his best performance in a decade

Cannes 2017: Noah Baumbach's star-studded latest for Netflix is a welcome addition to his great comic oeuvre

Happyness - Write In album review: Eclectic DIY is happily A-OK

Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne - Kind Providence: dark gems

From the heart: Father John Misty explores the messed-up, warts-and-all side of love

For his second album, inspired by his wife Emma Garr, Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty, had to surrender to love – and a little bit of schmaltz