Lou Reed

Brit-heavy compilation goes some way to placing the pre-punk scene in context

Hour-long audio drama is a love letter to 1950s noir, set in a dirty near-future cityscape

A restoring curative for a fearful world, which beautifully balances vitriol and solace

The best songs are slower, less prone to cliché but only in the first half of record

Politicians and RTÉ colleagues pay final respects to ‘fearless and funny’ journalist

Rufus and sister Martha discuss grieving for their mother, performing Christmas songs with family

Lankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic glory

Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme

The protest singer tells the Irish Times politics podcast punk was about solidarity, not Brexit-style masochsim

Singer Wendy James on a band that was ‘beautiful, anti-social and incredibly musical’

Liss Ard which has hosted arts festivals and famous musicians on market for €5m

At the finish line no one knows it took me more than an hour longer than I’d forecast

The dancer, actor, gossip columnist and muse was one of the most modern of stars

Style-straddling singer and indie-punk trio make for odd but intriguing double bil

NYC has a vast range of green space, from ancient forests to railroad gardens