Dylan Gossett at Iveagh Gardens review: A blue-collar rock hero wrapped in country colours
A gritty voice, old-school country instincts and an enthusiastic Dublin audience combine for an impressive performance
By Ed Power
Wet Leg at TCD review: Exuberant, witty and captivating – this band are only getting started
Rhian Teasdale is a captivating performer, with an uncanny ability to look as though she’s dancing around her bedroom
Lily Allen Performs West End Girl in Dublin: This tour has elicited pushback for a reason
Lily Allen acts her way through her autofictional album West End Girl with humour and pathos, but this show is slight as well as startling
Florence + the Machine at Marlay Park: Bewitching, five-star evening as Welch casts spells
Seventeen years on from her debut album, Florence Welch remains an artist born for the largest of stages
Paul Weller is all business on a night of highlights at Fairview Park
Band play 30 or more songs from one of the greatest catalogues in music
By Pat Carty
Ethel Cain at Fairview Park: A mesmerising performer with a beautifully cinematic voice
The American singer-songwriter brings atmosphere, intensity and emotional depth to a captivating Dublin performance
By Ed Power
The Cure at Marlay Park: Rainswept gloom purveyors shine in an apocalyptic heatwave
Robert Smith and co deliver magnificent performance for black-clad fans under aching blue sky
By Ed Power
The Wow! Signal review – Only Muse can make this gravity-defying sound. It’s ludicrous but great fun
By Ed Power
Katy Perry plays all the hits at Malahide Castle but almost in a hasty tribute-act fashion
Hot N Cold star entertains fans with a gig that focused heavily on early career hits
By Niamh Browne
Lewis Capaldi in Marlay Park: Charming and very funny. This is a moving show
CMAT opens Capaldi’s show with gorgeous, glittering, country-inflected pop songs
Louth Contemporary Music Society: Coming Together review – New music makes festival’s strongest impression
Beat Furrer’s boundary-blurring music features alongside work by Jürg Frey, Caroline Shaw, Julius Eastman, Harry Partch and Frederic Rzewski
Olivia Dean at Marlay Park review: Brilliantly affirmative gig fuelled by approachable star power
On Sunday, the second of two emotional, sold-out Dublin concerts, the Grammy winner brings her album The Art of Loving vividly to life
By Ed Power
Metallica at the Aviva review: no encore, no One, no Enter Sandman. Not tonight
Nothing Else Matters but no Enter Sandman as rock’s great survivors tell crowd: ‘See you Sunday’
Foreign Tongues review: The new Rolling Stones album is freewheeling, frisky and fabulous
By Ed Power
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: SJ McArdle, Loah, Chuck Squires, Roger Doyle and Big Sun
June 2026 releases include All My Dream Companions Gone, Materia Medica, The Late Great Chuck Squires, Idir and 001
No sleep ’til Wicklow: Mike D brings a note of mayhem to a laid-back Beyond the Pale
Review: The former Beastie Boy throws himself around like your dad cutting loose when the wedding DJ plays Nirvana
By Ed Power
Olivia Rodrigo’s new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is brilliantly catchy and beautifully bittersweet
By Ed Power
Guns N’ Roses blast through the old tunes brilliantly at 3Arena, but where are the new songs?
The world doesn’t need another Guns N’ Roses world tour. It needs a new Guns N’ Roses album
Nick Cave at Malahide Castle review: Electrifying drift between intimate confession and apocalyptic revelation
The shamanic visionary continues to reinvent his back catalogue through haunting duets and a prowling, punky spirit
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