Weather Warning

RTÉ Entertainment - Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos & Competitions | RTÉ

Les McKeown (centre) with the Bay City Rollers

Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown has died aged 65

Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown has died at the age of 65.

Dua Lipa is among the artists on the bill and has received three nominations

Brit Awards to have an audience of 4,000 next month

The king of funk

Five years on and nothing compares to Prince

Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff to star in sequel to How I Met Your Mother

Orla Gartland: "I scream my head off in the outro of the song and that scream is meant to feel like a huge release, like the moment you let it all out." Photo credit: Karina Barberis

Behind the music - Orla Gartland

Behind the Music

David Brophy: "I think I'll only be able to process what's happened, and put it in some reasonably sane context, by listening to stories of those who have actually dealt with it at the coalface"

Irish conductor forming choir for healthcare workers

Cher: "I think her father should move over and let her have her life. I believe she's been paying long enough."

Cher: Spears' father should 'let her have her life'

Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf during the recording of Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell in Los Angeles in 1991

Bat Out of Hell composer Jim Steinman dies

Conor O'Brien. Photo credit: Rich Gilligan

Villagers announce new album, Fever Dreams

Annie Mac presenting Other Voices from Dingle

Dublin DJ Annie Mac to leave BBC Radio 1 after 17 years

Quilloughby (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) with Lisa in The Simpsons. Picture: The Simpsons

Morrissey slams The Simpsons for 'hateful' parody

Morrissey: "In a world obsessed with Hate Laws, there are none that protect me."

"Hello hell . . . " Moz issues statement on Simpsons

John Spillane - "It seems that this is a good time to release these horses into the Irish mindscape"

John Spillane: 'I'm entering the next phase of my life'

KK Lewis: "I grew up in Clare, playing the fiddle but I gave it up when I was 13 because I didn't think it was cool enough." All photos: Nicholas O'Donnell

Behind the music - KK Lewis

Behind the Music

Reviews

KoL and the gang

How Kings of Leon got their groove back

Gray: awed by nature and history

David Gray follows Skywalker to Skellig

There's no roll of the dice here

Foo Fighters' Medicine... a shot in the arm for fans

Kenny Dorham: a Cubano-tinged infectious beat

Album Review: Una Mas - Kenny Dorham

Dave Brubeck: Lullabies may be fruit of the frugal orientation of a pianist-composer of advanced years

Album review: Dave Brubeck - Lullabies

Freddie Hubbard plays Chicago, September 4, 1982: Sunny, tuneful material in the main

Album review: Freddie Hubbard Hub-Tones

Art Blakey plays the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands in 1990

Review: Indestructible Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Bobby Hutcherson: light-fingered vibes filigree in the company of the stout-sounding tenor player Joe Henderson and others

Album review: Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker

John Walsh: an admirable, gutsy quest for self-fulfillment through Flamenco guitar. (All photos Magda Kacperska)

Album review: John Walsh - Irlandalucía

Stanley Turrentine performs in Chicago, July 14, 1979

Album review Stanley Turrentine - That's Where It's At

The 18-year-old Joan Anderson

Joni Mitchell Archive Volume 1 - The Early Years

The best of music for the worst of times

Bruce Springsteen battles the war on hugs on new album