Rock/Pop »
When the Chips are upAmid cries of ‘Have Hot Chip gone soft?’, guitarist Owen Clarke describes why the band are happy juxtaposing their trademark electropop with something a little sentimental
Ivy League evolutionTheir old-school Americana may be rooted in another time, but for The Low Anthem’s Ben Knox Miller, making music is all about keeping things fresh, he tells LAUREN MURPHY
Roots/World/Jazz »
Adding fuel to the fireArts : Should Gradam Ceoil, TG4’s annual traditional music awards ceremony, be given a shake-up? Siobhán Long thinks so
Piping up for the PaleAt next week’s Temple Bar TradFest, a photographic exhibition will document Dublin’s long, varied and sometimes underrated contribution to the history of traditional music, writes SIOBHÁN LONG
Classical »
North stages opera revampThe latest reshaping of opera companies, this time in Northern Ireland, fuels the transformation of this art form here
Rescue of a one-hit wonderThere’s more to Samuel Barber than a mournful Adagio for Strings, and his centenary should help restore an unfairly languishing reputation, writes ARMINTA WALLACE
Jim Carroll | On The Record »
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