Glen Hansard: ‘Funny as it sounds with all the success, the money is not something that you just have’

The Frames and Swell Season frontman on giving back, speeding up and changing tack

I paid €440 for an Oasis ticket in Croke Park, and I’m not even a huge fan

For a teenager in rural Ireland, the things the brothers sang about felt superficial after Kurt Cobain’s anguish. But Oasis, who are about to play at Croke Park, were part of the wave that swept grunge away

Seamus Murphy took his camera from the Rust Belt to Russia. What he saw took him aback

The cold war was built on assumptions that Americans and Russians lived opposite lives. ‘What if that was a lie?’ the Irish photographer asks in his new book

PJ Harvey in Dublin review: Music at its most magical

Polly Jean Harvey’s first Irish show since 2006 is more than a little bit special

PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying – Yearning for creative truth after a period of clutter

An album littered with reflective but dialectically odd lyrics balanced by a natural leaning towards strong melodies

Dry Cleaning: New Long Leg – A captivating debut

Great, angular debut that announces the arrival of intriguing frontwoman Flo Shaw

Marianne Faithfull on nearly dying of Covid-19: ‘My lungs are still not okay. I need oxygen’

The singer can’t remember intensive care. ‘I was in a very dark place – presumably, it was death’

The best 50 Irish music acts right now – in order

It’s a particularly thrilling time for Irish music – here’s our countdown of the finest

Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters review – A bracing collection

Apple picks up with her outspoken ways where she left off with her last album in 2012

Nick Cave on PJ Harvey break-up: ‘I almost dropped my syringe’

‘I suspected that drugs might have been a problem between us,’ Cave tells fan online

Dublin home of Hozier’s producer in Rathmines for €1.25m

Rob Kirwan refurbished Number 81 Grosvenor Square throughout after he bought it in 2013 for €765,000

Why vinyl refuses to die

The inaugural Vinyl festival, which takes place over the May bank holiday weekend, is a boutique event celebrating the golden age of stylus and disc

Ellie Goulding and Disclosure added to Glastonbury line-up

ZZ Top among newly confirmed acts for festival headlined by Adele, Coldplay and Muse

Ann Scott: Venus to the Sky