And So I Watch You From Afar: producing Heirs after a decade in the gameThe affable Antrim band have been around for 10 years and, with another album about to drop, they have designs on another decadeTue May 05 2015 - 06:00
Mumford & Sons: ‘It was like the gateway drug to the album – it got us into the heavy stuff’Three albums in and Marcus Mumford & company have jettisoned the banjo folkie vibe of their smash debut album ‘Babel’. They think fans will adapt to the new sound of the cityThu Apr 30 2015 - 17:00
Le Galaxie’s way with gravityA major-label contract has put an extra spring in the dance-floor step of this Irish electropop sensation. New album Le Club shows that their killer dancefloor sound can be bottled on discFri Apr 24 2015 - 06:00
Dutch Uncles settle down in their own unusual wayThe English band’s new album might centre on a theme of domesticity, but it’s far from mundaneThu Apr 16 2015 - 02:00
Isaac Brock: The Modest Mouse that roarsIsaac Brock from Modest Mouse talks about his two decades of fronting the bandFri Apr 10 2015 - 08:00
Tobias Jesso Jr: The lovable goon who keeps his songs simpleHis star is in the ascendant – but don’t expect him to start taking things seriously any time soonThu Apr 02 2015 - 01:00
The Staves: a new album and secret studio sessions with Bon IverWhen The Staves decamped to Justin Vernon’s studio they didn’t bother to tell their label. It’s just as well it worked outFri Mar 27 2015 - 05:00
The marketing machine is in overdrive at SXSWIt’s either the cleverest or the cruellest marketing campaign for a movie we’ve heard about for a whileFri Mar 20 2015 - 17:00
Laura Marling: Short Movie | Album ReviewThe English singer-songwriter’s fifth album is subtly flavoured by her sojourn on the American west coastThu Mar 19 2015 - 16:00
Thesps get in on the video actionYou’ve seen him scraggly bearded and bonding with a football on a desert island, but you've never seen Tom Hanks shimmying his way through a cheesy pop video - until nowSun Mar 15 2015 - 10:00
Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit | Album ReviewThu Mar 12 2015 - 18:00
‘Sleater-Kinney is a band you can’t really do half-heartedly’After an eight-year hiatus, the trio were compelled back into the studio by a ‘mystical’ forceThu Mar 12 2015 - 01:00
If you listen to one thing this week: Madonna's Rebel HeartThe indisputable pop icon is back with a tentative bang after 2012’s dodgy MDNA – an album with plenty of big names attached, but few memorable pop hitsThu Mar 05 2015 - 12:00
The Unthanks: the light and the dark of English folk musicThe group have been singing the canon for a decade – but what happens now that they are making their own music?Mon Mar 02 2015 - 12:00
Noel Gallagher: ‘What we’re left with now is the Arctic Monkeys, tax-dodgers’The charts are a load of boll*cks. Bono goes on a bit. And he would be ‘f**king very, very, very interested’ in collaborating with Damon AlbarnFri Feb 20 2015 - 06:39
José Gonzalez: Vestiges & Claws | Album streamIt's eight years since Jose Gonzalez released a solo album - listen to Vestiges and Claws hereTue Feb 17 2015 - 11:00
Rebel Yell: the Cork renaissance?Cork’s ‘little hum’ of creative confidence is building to a crescendo, its artists sayFri Feb 13 2015 - 00:00
The Decemberists return: expect songs about Sandy Hook and fronting a boybandAfter a hiatus, illness, and, for frontman Colin Meloy, three children’s books, the band are back with an eclectic albumMon Feb 09 2015 - 06:00
From the heart: Father John Misty explores the messed-up, warts-and-all side of loveFor his second album, inspired by his wife Emma Garr, Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty, had to surrender to love – and a little bit of schmaltzFri Feb 06 2015 - 12:40
Reunions: a whiff of desperation?Some band reunions make complete sense, but The Libertines' attempt seems more sad than anything elseFri Feb 06 2015 - 06:00
