CMAT: If My Wife New I’d Be Dead review – one of the best albums of 2022

CMAT has a real skill for presenting living and breathing issues on a silver platter

Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes: Much pain, much gain

Primal Scream and Savages join forces on a compelling country-soul duets album

Best Before Death: KLF’s Bill Drummond takes another arty figary

Review: Paul Duane documents Drummond on his latest quest to confuse and bewilder

Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’

There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival

‘I flew to Chicago to buy Mrs Claus’: The families lighting up Christmas

These Dubliners are raising festive spirits and funds with their elaborately lit homes

Childhood summers: magic moments with Cat Stevens and Perry Como

Some summer sounds are now tinged with sadness since my Granny died last year

Louis Walsh: ‘Boyzone were more fun than Westlife’

‘Ireland’s Got Talent’ star on ungrateful popstars and being falsely accused of sex assault

The KLF return with a three-day blitz of Liverpool

Last week, the KLF broke 23 years of silence on why they burned a million pounds, and launched a new novel, band and funeral home

Conor O’Clery: What’s the matter with America?

Voters apathy to Trump’s misdeeds and media focus on gun control, healthcare behind result

Nashville: from country mecca to music industry powerhouse

The town has long been a place of pilgrimage for country musicians. Now the Tennessee city is booming, thanks in part to its own TV show, and the rest of the music industry is turning up in the honky tonk bars of Nashville

Ministers of sound: choose a ringtone for your Irish politician

Politicians’ gadgets with ‘jazzy’ jingles interrupting meetings are in the news

Country Soul Sisters Volume 2

Obituary: George Jones

Peerless and hard-living country music legend

US country singer George Jones dies aged 81

Texas-born performer’s career spanned six decades but was marred by drink and drugs