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image “The album is dead. Long live the album”

The web was supposed to kill the album, but no-one bothered to tell the musicians

From the weekend: how Fund It and Kickstarter turned artists into artistic chuggers

You’ll find my piece from the weekend’s paper about how FundIt and Kickstarter campaigns have turned artists into chuggers here. It’s something which has become more and more noticable in recent times as some projects struggle to raise funding and …

The online posts that live forever

A couple of weeks ago, something very strange happened on this blog and a couple of readers have been on since to ask what the hell happened. An 18 month-old post found itself at the top of the most read …

Pop Life: Una rocks (again)

Say hello to the newbie on The Irish Times’ blogging block. Una Mullally has joined the team and you’ll find her blogging at Pop Life.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

As and from this morning, there’s a new system in place across irishtimes.com regarding commenting on articles and blog posts and how these comments are moderated. All the changes are oulined here by online editor Hugh Linehan. The two big …

Electric Picnic – Irish Times’ supplement and The Daily Ticket

Yes, you’re right, it’s Electric Picnic week all week here at OTR. Tomorrow (Wednesday), there will be a special Electric Picnic supplement published with The Irish Times. Hear why it’s taken Arcade Fire so long to get back to Stradbally …

Electric moments: the best of the Electric Picnic to date

This year’s Electric Picnic is just around the corner, but we want you, the OTR readers, to rewind your mind and remember top Picnic moments from years past for an upcoming feature. It could be the performance of a headliner …

The Irish Times’ Culture podcast

The longest-day-of-the-year podcast was hosted and presented by arts editor Shane Hegarty and features Hugh Linehan, Laura Slattery and myself discussing the future of media, The Guardian’s brave new world, press barons, new media ecosystems, the influence of Britsh media …