A collection to savour from ageing rockers

Songwriter’s eighth album is a low-key affair that does not need to shout to be heard

Kerry-based artist’s songs brim over with clever ideas and easily spotted influences

The Divine Comedy, Nitin Sawhney, Richard Hawley, Ann Scott, Alma, Deborah De Luca

Formal dinners are over, but casual cooking for friends throws up a new set of dilemmas. Here is a foolproof guide

Molly King is head of development for the Other Voices festival in Dingle and has been involved with it since her childhood

Róisín Murphy’s new album Take Her Up to Monto is named for a song about Dublin’s former red-light district. “It’s a little postmodern fragment, a bit of history. But also it’s me.”

Festival celebrates the capital’s music scene including choruses from Handel’s ‘Messiah’

It’s summertime, which means it’s time to hit the fields, parks, GAA stadiums and forests for a blast of live music. Here’s our guide to the 25 festivals and music events you have to see this year

It’s the end of the year as we know it and we feel fine. Jim Carroll rounds up the year in music and passes the baton to you, the readers, to have the final say