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Beck: “It would be very easy to come along and make something deliciously krautrock, or hide in the safety of the familiar.”
Beck: ‘U2 had the best audiences of anyone I’ve opened for’

If there was ever a musician who is capable of whipping something novel out of the unexpected, it’s Beck Hansen. The Californian has spent his career (...)

Junior Brother: Pull the Right Rope review – The real paradoxical deal

Dublin-based, Kerry-born Ronan Kealy has been swatting off descriptions of his folk music (“off kilter”, “odd”, “quirky”, et al) for the past 18 month(...)

Ariel Pink serves up an irresistible lumpy pop milkshake
  • Music
  • September 14, 2017, 07:45

The days of serendipitous encounters are dead as we are now fed through the tubes of algorithms. There is no shock of the new, only cosily conventiona(...)

What Irish Times critics are wishing for this Christmas

Rosita Boland What would you like in your stocking? The attention span I used to have, plus the focus to read several books a month. All(...)

Film review: Frank

The latest film from Lenny Abrahamson, director of Adam & Paul and What Richard Did, is certainly promiscuous in its creative weirdness. As every (...)

Lenny talks Frank: the movie that won't give him a big head

The last time I spoke with Lenny Abrahamson, he had to explain why he took so long with his work. Adam & Paul, his era-defining study of two wande(...)

Ben Shepherd and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden perform an acoustic set in Seattle earlier this year.
Ben Shepherd: Soundgarden take the grunge full circle

Ben Shepherd was born in Okinawa Japan (where his father served in the US army), in 1968. When Ben was 3-years-old the family moved to Texas where (...)