Album Reviews
Linda Thompson: Proxy Music – family and friends lend their voices on this fine album
West Cork Chamber Music Festival review: A potent, candlelit reminder of Magdalene inhumanity
Second week featured a resplendent Anna Devin, a Levantine exploration and masterly piano performances
Nils Frahm at NCH review: German classical ambient wizard blasts into orbit right from the start
Avant-garde superstar even finds time to joke about England’s advance to the semis in Euro 2024
Kings of Leon at Marlay Park review: ‘I can’t wait to get back here and play another show for you’
Career-spanning, crowd-pleasing set brought some of modern rock’s most well-known songs to south Dublin venue along with top-class support acts
Hozier in Marlay Park review: Mild-mannered musician transforms into rock star
Watertight performance whipped into shape by recent US tour leaving audience singing on their way home
Van Morrison review: Van the man turns rainy night in Dublin into a celebration
Belfast musician pulls it out of the hat for crowd with lively gig
Stevie Nicks in Dublin review: The singer is not ready to hand over her mantle to Taylor Swift or anyone else
The bona fide legend gives fans at the 3Arena moments they will never forget
A Lazarus Soul: No Flowers Grow in Cement Gardens - A collection in love with the world in all its chaos
West Cork Chamber Music Festival review: Mesmerising Schubert, achingly beautiful Beethoven and lovely Smetana
The Signum Quartet and the Chiaroscuro Quartet were the weekend’s highlights
Russell Crowe in Dublin review: ‘Welcome to the Taylor Swift alternative concert’
The Hollywood star’s Indoor Garden Party filled the Gaiety with a party atmosphere
Air play Moon Safari in Trinity College review: A sparkling nostalgia trip presented in triumphant technicolour
Classy French electronic outfit played their 1998 retro-futurist album with an interstellar panache
Taylor Swift in the Aviva review: ‘You know this but nobody does it like you Dublin’
The exhilarating and riveting three hour-plus concert in Dublin 4 thrillingly confirms the US singer as an artist who comes along just once in an era
Patti Smith at Vicar Street review: Set is as sweet as it is snarling, with desperate yet unhurried joy
Sharing affecting stories with the audience, Smith conveys the beauty of the everyday without artifice
Gracie Abrams: The Secret of Us – Indie-pop that will take some beating for integrity and directness
Exmagician: Sit Tight – One of the most satisfying and intricately crafted albums you’ll hear in 2024
Rammstein at RDS review: Incendiary, spectacular and irresistible performance from showmen of German metal
Show has style but also plenty of substance. Rammstein have the tunes to complement the spectacle
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