To usher in 2022, a holiday hungover quiz devoted to the ‘Monday of months’

Plus: Christmas with the Devil is an ode to a Satanic season by which metalheads?

Primal Scream and Savages join forces on a compelling country-soul duets album

The LA-based Dublin producer who worked with U2, REM and Snow Patrol has his own album out

Drummer on hits by Sinatra, Presley and Beach Boys ‘greatest ever’, says Brian Wilson

The Shins founder and sole trader might have made a summery musical gem, but he says it was a painful process: 'My wife doesn’t look back on this last year as the easiest of times'

Primal Scream’s new album, Chaosmosis, finds Bobby Gillespie – a garrulous interviewee – more together than ever. He reflects on the drug years, getting older and his love for young bands

‘Heartworm’ is one of Irish music’s most acclaimed albums but it brought Whipping Boy little success. Twenty years on, the former band members reflect on its complex legacy

The late John Peel’s BBC ‘sessions’ over 37 years are pored over in this exhaustive, thrilling and humorous analysis of an uncompromising tastemaker

The Mad Men star on singing with The Jesus and Mary Chain, her new Irish movie Standby, and being constantly badgered for spoilers about the hit TV series

Aoife Barry's shines a light on new Irish music - its new artists, new releases and new endeavours