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Fiach Moriarty: Melodic alternative folk with an emphasis on Irish history

Behind the music - Fiach Moriarty

Fiach Moriarty has released his new album Liberties and announced an Irish tour. We asked him the BIG questions . . .

Kim Deal - Debut solo album is years in the making

Kim Deal announces debut solo album

Kim Deal has announced that she will release her debut solo album, the self-produced Nobody Loves You More, on Friday 22 November.

Music • 28 Aug 24

Amy Winehouse: the soul saviour who could not save herself

The tangled afterlife of Amy Winehouse

The release of the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black has brought the life and music of the late singer back into sharp focus all over again nearly 13 years after her tragic death.

Music • 13 Apr 24

What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Saturday

Kurt Cobain: Moments That Shook Music looks at the events surrounding his death, Norwegian crime drama Wisting returns for a third run, while Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway comes to an end . . .

Television • 13 Apr 24

Behind the music - JP Kennedy

Donegal singer-songwriter JP Kennedy has released his new single, Vaudevillian Rose. We asked him the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 27 Nov 23

Kurt Cobain's famous guitar to be exhibited in Kildare

An exhibition celebrating late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is set to take place at The Museum of Style Icons in Newbridge next week.

Music • 20 Oct 23

Guitar played by Cobain at Nirvana's last gig for sale

A guitar played by Kurt Cobain at Nirvana's last performance is estimated to fetch between one million to two million US dollars at auction.

Music • 09 Oct 23

Behind the music - Vernon Jane

Dublin alt-rock band Vernon Jane release their new album Chestpains And Sidepieces on 13 October and play The Grand Social, Dublin on 11 October. We asked front woman Emily O'Connor the BIG questions . . .

Behind the Music • 04 Oct 23

Kurt Cobain's guitar is expected to fetch $200,000

Kurt Cobain mementos and Elvis web domain for auction

An electric guitar once owned by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is among the top lots to be sold at Kruse GWS Auction in the US later this month and could fetch upward of $200,000.

Entertainment • 03 Aug 23

Kurt Cobain's smashed Fender Stratocaster is displayed beside the 1991 Smells Like Teen Spirit debut performance set list at Julien's Auctions in California

Sells like teen spirit? Cobain guitar up for auction

A guitar smashed on stage by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is going under the hammer later this month in the United States.

Music • 04 May 23

The guitar has an estimate of $600,000-800,000

Kurt Cobain's Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar for sale

An electric guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the music video for the band's landmark hit Smells Like Teen Spirit is to go under the hammer for the first time.

Music • 27 Apr 22

Mr Elden as a four-month-old on the cover of Nevermind. Picture: Getty

Nirvana Nevermind case dismissed

A judge in California has dismissed a case taken against rock act Nirvana by the man pictured as a baby on the cover of the band's album Nevermind album.

Music • 04 Jan 22

Grohl recalls chance meeting with Irish hitchhiker

Dave Grohl has recalled how a chance meeting with a hitchhiker in Ireland helped him move on after Kurt Cobain's death.

Music • 01 Oct 21

John McCauley of Deer Tick joins Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic during Cal Jam 18 at the San Manuel Amphitheater on October 6,2018 in San Bernardino, CA. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

Nirvana's surviving members record new music

Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has revealed that he has teamed up with former band mates Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear to record "really cool new music" but they have no plans to release any of it.

Music • 10 Jun 21

Grohl discussed his love for Ireland on The Late Late Show earlier this year

"A life lived loud" - Dave Grohl to publish memoir

Dave Grohl has posted an audio recording of the introduction to his upcoming memoir The Storyteller, which will be published this October.

Music • 06 Apr 21

Dave Grohl: "I didn't really have a plan. When everything's sort of turned upside down, and shaken up like that, you just wake up every day thinking, 'Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?'"

Grohl recalls 'strange' day after Kurt Cobain's death

Dave Grohl has recalled the "strange" day after Kurt Cobain's death, saying "it felt like everything had "turned upside down".

Music • 26 Mar 21

Dave Grohl: "I still have dreams that we're in Nirvana, that we're still a band. I still dream there's an empty arena waiting for us to play."

Dave Grohl 'still dreams' about Nirvana

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl "still dreams" about playing in Nirvana and admits he wouldn't "feel comfortable" singing a song that the late Kurt Cobain sang.

Music • 11 Jan 21

Eddie Van Halen struts his stuff in 1988

Jump at the sums involved with Van Halen's 'guitars

Three Eddie Van Halen guitars sold for in excess of $422,000 (€347,720) during Julien's Auctions' annual Icons and Idols Trilogy: Rock 'n' Roll Auction.

Music • 03 Dec 20

Kurt Cobain's guitar sells for a record £4.8 million

A guitar played by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain on MTV Unplugged has become the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction.

Music • 22 Jun 20

Kurt Cobain onstage at the recording of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance at Sony Music Studios in New York on November 18, 1993

Kurt Cobain's Unplugged guitar sells for over $6m

A guitar played by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's iconic MTV Unplugged performance in November 1993 has sold for a record $6.01m at an auction in New York, having been expected to fetch between $1m-$2m.

Music • 21 Jun 20

Very ape: Computer writes fake "new" Nirvana song

What a Nirv! A YouTuber has used artificial intelligence to compose a fake "new" Nirvana song entitled Smother.

Music • 18 Jun 20

Murder in the Outback: The Falconio and Lees Mystery

What's on? 20 top telly tips for Sunday

There's a new documentary series about an infamous murder in Australia, Stephen Mulhern's back with Celebrity Catchphrase, there's a rake of re-runs including Derry Girls and Young Offenders, and it's the end of the road for rapper Dave . . .

Television • 07 Jun 20

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love pose on the VIP balcony during a Mudhoney concert at the Hollywood Palladium on December 4, 1992 in Los Angeles

Courtney Love posts emotional tribute to Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love has recalled her late husband Kurt Cobain in an emotional social media post on their 28th wedding anniversary.

Music • 26 Feb 20

Kurt Cobain's Seattle home goes on sale for $7.5m

The Seattle home once owned by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love has gone on sale in Seattle and is currently being valued at $7.5 million.

Music • 30 Sep 19

Dave Grohl performing with Foo Fighters at Sziget festival in Hungary last week

Grohl on life-changing Smells Like Teen Spirit

Ahead of Dublin and Belfast dates, Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl has recalled the life-changing event which Smells Like Teen Spirit was for him as song-writer and member of Nirvana

Entertainment • 19 Aug 19