Lorde: Virgin review – Glittery, gritty and fabulously absorbing
Ella Yelich-O’Connor’s fourth album is a brooding blockbuster as visceral and emotionally gory as Solar Power was darkly becalmed
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When Ella Yelich-O’Connor was last in Ireland she was working through a break-up and the aftershock of an eating disorder. Her new album has helped make her whole again, she says
All of Taylor Swift’s albums ranked, from worst to best – plus which tracks to expect at her Eras tour Dublin concerts
From her debut LP, in 2006, to the epic, 31-track Tortured Poets Department, this is how we rate each of the star’s studio releases
St Vincent: ‘I recently did an ancestry.com thing, and it was all Irish Catholics. That’s my rascal side’
Annie Clark’s ever-morphing, visionary pop has won her consistent acclaim. She’s now inspiring young artists from The Last Dinner Party to Olivia Rodrigo
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department track by track review – A manifesto for all the believers who will try at love one more time
Superstar’s 11th studio album is the fruit of abject misery but is also steeped in the singer’s trademark indefatigable optimism
Taylor Swift producer Jack Antonoff: ‘I thought Shane MacGowan would last forever... He’s the ultimate artist’
Jack Antonoff is a top-flight producer of the likes of Lorde, Lana Del Rey and St Vincent. He’s also very keen to talk about the recently departed Pogues singer
Bleachers: Bleachers – Not even the help of Jack Antonoff’s starry friends can stop this album from petering out
A disengaged vibe, unnecessary sax solos and a heavy leaning on influences weight this album down
Florence and the Machine: Dance Fever – A walk on the weird side
The quieter moments are the most satisfying on Welch’s fifth album
Grammy awards 2022: Olivia Rodrigo and Silk Sonic triumph
Ukraine’s president Zelenskiy makes cameo at scandal free ceremony after Oscars chaos
Jack Antonoff: ‘Irish music has had a huge influence on me – it’s steeped in celebration and sadness’
Prolific producer of Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Lorde albums on new Bleachers project
Lorde: ‘I’m only just scratching the surface of my powers’
The New Zealand singer on her new album, giving up social media and dealing with grief
Taylor Swift: Folklore review – A triumph of wistful, escapist melancholy
Emotional, self-aware songwriting brings comfort in a time of global uncertainty
The Chicks: Gaslighter review – Packs the most satisfying of punches
Eighth album from country-pop trio mines personal material like never before
The Chicks: ‘We were accepted because we made them a lot of money, but they didn’t like us’
The Chicks — they dropped the “Dixie” last month — are back with an album after 14 years, the band at peace with an industry that’s never made nice
Daniel Johnston, enigmatic cult songwriter, dies aged 58
American artist sang candidly and sometimes disturbingly about his demons
Grammy Awards 2019 winners: The complete list
Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ won four awards and Lady Gaga’s ‘Shallow’ from the movie ‘A Star Is Born’ won two
Albums of 2019: A big year for recording acts of all sizes
Expect newies from Rihanna, Foals, Hozier, Chance the Rapper, Soak, Stormzy and MBV
New Yorker Festival drops Steve Bannon after stars pull out
Bannon calls New Yorker editor David Remnick ‘gutless’ for rescinding invitation
Ticket Awards 2017: The best music of the year
Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, Lorde, and SZA reigned supreme this year, while the Irish music scene has never been so vibrant
Taylor Swift: Reputation – clever songwriting, beauty in tiny details
With references to past spats and lovers, Reputation could well be the singer’s coming-of-age album
Jake Bugg channels Glen Campbell and Lorde is rhymin’ Simon
Songs of the week: a Paul Simon hit version, and a Hozier pick from Wyvern Lingo
Lorde’s second coming: ‘Pop music is my number one inspiration’
Four years after she conquered the world with her song ‘Royals’, Lorde returns with ‘Melodrama’ – and it packs a serious lyrical punch
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