How the right rushed to defend Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets

Shortly after the Roseanne show was cancelled, right-wing commentators were engaged in ‘mental gymnastics’

Mark Everett: ‘I guess I don’t come from even-keel stock’

Eels frontman Mark Everett regards his very existence as nothing other than miraculous

Trump’s musical booking woes are unprecedented, even for a Republican

The TV star turned president elect can’t seem to muster the star power for his inauguration. But even George W Bush managed to get Destiny’s Child

Four years of Trump in the White House: what can artists do?

The times they are a-changin’ and musicians now should reflect the concerns of their fans

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Review: The Deer Hunter

Musicians and the Middle East: there’s no middle ground

Eddie Vedder, Rihanna and more enter the war zone

Anger management: Grant’s great songs in the key of real life

Irish audiences have embraced John Grant’s brave and beautiful anti-love songs. Call it collective atonement for Garth Brooks