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Something for the Weekend: Linda Buckley's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

Whipping Boy's seminal album Heartworm celebrates its 30th anniversary this year

Whipping Boy - the most underrated Irish band of all time?

Something for the Weekend: Mick Harvey's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

Chappell Roan on stage at Electric Picnic 2025

From Kneecap to DJ Neven - Electric Picnic 2025 reviewed

Sounds from a Safe Harbour turns 10 - let the bells ring

Conway Savage in Ireland: a tribute to a cult Aussie music legend

The Summer of Astral Weeks - inside Van Morrison's masterpiece

The Summer of Astral Weeks - inside Van Morrison's masterpiece

Documentary On One

Singer and presenter

Keeping it Euro-Country - the mighty CMAT talks to Marty

Happy 80th birthday Van Morrison: Marty talks to Van The Man

Happy 80th birthday Van Morrison: Marty talks to Van The Man

Father John Misty at Collins Barracks

In The Picture: Father John Misty live at Collins Barracks

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The ten best songs under one minute long

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Music Reviews

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

Olivia Rodrigo: more of the same - except harder, faster and funnier. Photo Credit: Larissa Hofmann

Olivia Rodrigo turns herself inside out on GUTS

Steely Dan: I hear you are singing a song of the past

A double whammy of classic Steely Dan albums

The bawdy, swaggering and frequently drunk "emperor of bloviation" is gone for now and this really is another side of Mik Pyro

Mik Pyro is still on fire on his debut solo album