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Something for the Weekend: Chris Thile's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

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Art and power collide - The Carducci Quartet tackle Shostakovich

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Something for the Weekend: Le Boom's Christy Leech

Something For The Weekend

Ana Palindrome

Unsung Irish music acts get their chance to shine

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Book Of The Week: Beat that! The Story of the Irish Bodhrán

Book Of The Week

Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher performs on stage at the Pop Gala held in De Vliegermolen, Netherlands on March 10, 1973

How Rory Gallagher's guitar became the most famous in Irish music

Taylor Swift

Reviewed: Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl is utterly... meh

Charli XCX - one of the great romantic poets of the modern age?

Why Charli XCX might be gen Z's answer to the Romantic poets

Opinion and Analysis

Patti Smith performs when Michael Dorf presents the 20th Annual Charity Concert, "People Have The Power - A Celebration Of Patti Smith" show at Carnegie Hall on March 26, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Al Pereira/WireImage)

Why Patti Smith's songs and poems have chimed with Irish artists

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana performing on MTV Live and Loud in Dec 1993

The dark meaning behind Nirvana's In Utero angel

Photo by RTÉ staff member Áine Gallagher

Ambient Orbit returns - enter RTÉ lyric fm's chill out zone

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Music Reviews

Reviewed: Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl is utterly... meh

Three young women, two of whom are wearing Taylor Swift tshirts

Watch: University of Galway Swifties review new album

Taylor Swift's The Life Of A Showgirl is utterly joyful

image shows the main stage of the All Together Now festival

Why do all good things come to an end? All Together Now reviewed

This is a Bonologue that obeys all the conventions of a stage production, but this being Bono, it is also a folk mass and a sermon

Bono: Stories of Surrender

Masked and majestic, Sleep Token juxtapose crushing riffage with moments of what-just-happened? beauty Photo: Andy Ford

Wide awake in Arcadia as Sleep Token rouse jaded ears

Nihilistic but romantic, poetic and tender: Fontaines D.C. Photo credit: SImon Wheatley

Review: Fontaines D.C.: weirder, darker, poppier

Kneecap: Not since the heady early nineties days of wayward Dublin crew Scary Eire has an Irish hip-hop act sounded so vital and energetic. Photo credit: Sarah Ellis

Kneecap make an exhibition of themselves on Fine Art

Hackney diamond geezers. Photo credit: Mark Seliger

Review: The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

The Mary Wallopers. Phtoo credit: Sorcha Frances Ryder

The Mary Wallopers back with more DIY diddley aye

Soda Blonde: ambition fulfilled

Soda Blonde dream bigger and bolder on new album

Róisín Murphy performs in concert at Castello Sforzesco, Milan last July

Róisín Murphy journeys to the outer reaches of weird