Joan Wasser on Jeff Buckley: ‘I really understand the fascination... he was spectacular’

Joan Wasser, aka Joan as Police Woman, talks about her ‘spectacular’ late fiance Jeff Buckley, flat-out fun touring with Iggy Pop and the craft of songwriting

Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age: ‘It requires a certain amount of brinkmanship to not die. And some of us will die’

The frontman has certainly come closer than many. He opens up about mortality, how he tried and failed to quit music, and the ‘very complex and multilayered junkie’ Mark Lanegan

Iggy Pop at In the Meadows review: Old-school rock has rarely felt so timeless and incendiary

There is never a hint of nostalgia throughout a turn that feels powerfully rooted in the here and now

Event guide: Pulp, Beyond the Pale, Cork Midsummer and other best things to do in Ireland this week

Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way

In The Meadows featuring Iggy Pop, Slowdive and Lambrini Girls: When is it on, stage times, how to get there, weather and tickets info

One-day event at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham is curated by the same teams behind All Together Now and Forbidden Fruit

Inside Ireland’s music festival industry: ‘You can haemorrhage money very quickly’

For promoters, there are risks, tight margins and pinch points. Still, as the summer season begins, optimism prevails

Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’

An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism

Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville – Spasmodic shot of art rock walks the tightrope between high culture and backstreet scuzz

Dubliner Aaron Corcoran names debut album in honour of Manhattan club’s ethos of ‘celebrating the weird part of who you are’

Iggy Pop at All Together Now: untamed, cathartic and still refusing to play by the rules

American singer brings down the curtain at Curraghmore in a blaze of gnarled, playful glory

All Together Now: Homage paid to Sinéad O’Connor at Waterford festival

The mood was celebration rather than grief as artists performed covers of the singer’s hits

Iggy Pop: Every Loser – A joyous blast of righteous noise from the Godfather of Punk

The 75-year-old rocker kicks out the jams on his raucous 19th solo album

Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful – a defiant up yours to the pandemic

Aimee Mann: ‘Any woman my age is traumatised by growing up in the 60s and 70s’

US indie icon talks about her childhood kidnapping and her repressive upbringing

Behind the scenes on the Pirelli calendar: Iggy Pop, Cher and St Vincent pose for Bryan Adams

Saweetie and Jennifer Hudson also star in rocker-photographer’s touring-themed shoots