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Album Reviews
Taylor Swift is back on tour after five years. The first night, her three-hour set has 70,000 people rapt
Taylor Swift is back on tour after five years. The first night, her three-hour set has 70,000 people rapt Opening night of the star’s Eras Tour traverses her 10-album career with high-octane hits
By Jon Caramanica●
Mon Mar 20 2023 - 11:58
The Music Quiz: Which Irish singer-songwriter was photographed by Annie Leibovitz in 2007?
The Music Quiz: Which Irish singer-songwriter was photographed by Annie Leibovitz in 2007?

Lankum’s Radie Peate: ‘Singing with other people, in harmony, is a lovely experience because it releases some mad chemical in your brain’

The Dublin band are finding the light amid the shade in music that resembles the ebb and flow of the tide

Sat Mar 18 2023 - 06:00

Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore: ‘After Andy died, you start thinking, ‘do you tap into something when you write songs, or is there something supernatural that goes on?’

The veteran band’s next album title turned out to be prescient after the unexpected loss of original member Andy Fletcher

Sat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00

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Lankum: False Lankum – Landmark collection with surprising light among the deathly intent
Lankum: False Lankum – Landmark collection with surprising light among the deathly intent    
Ailbhe Reddy: Endless Affair - Indie pop cedes to quieter, more vulnerable songs on an excellent second album
Ailbhe Reddy: Endless Affair - Indie pop cedes to quieter, more vulnerable songs on an excellent second album    
Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Dance Suite — refined understatement from Cristian Măcelaru    
The Answer: Sundowners – Northern Irish rockers return with songs that bounce off the walls    
Chamber Choir Ireland: Amhráin na Naomh – An unusually strained performance by an accomplished ensembleThe big piece of the evening, Eoghan Desmond’s Amra Choluim Chille, is a curate’s egg of a work
Maxim Rysanov, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky and Dóra Kokas: Welcome Irish tour by new international string trioMoments of astonishing beauty rubbed shoulders with helter-skelter passages with rough ensemble

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