Experimental composer and guitarist Michael Pisaro-Liu’s 2013 work, asleep, wind, voice, poe gets its Irish premiere this month

Alex Winter’s documentary portrait of the musician should win over the most resistant

The Beck of 1994’s Mellow Gold seems a million miles from the 49-year-old releasing Hyperspace

Ronan Kealy’s style can sort the believers from the bemused

The essence of the thrills we’ve lost along the way to the convenience of modern music

From the Gleesons’ ‘Walworth Farce’ to a 3D pen, there’s a perfect present for the artist in your life

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Lenny Abrahamson’s superby eccentric movie about a group of supremely eccentric musicians reveals some powerful truths about art and the disordered mind

In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more

Ben Shepherd from Seattle survivors Soundgarden on his formative years, on getting the band back together and how he almost joined Nirvana after partying with Kurt Cobain