Laurie Anderson

My transplant is not a cure for cystic fibrosis, but it means the threat to my life is gone for now

The musician and activist on Laurie Anderson, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and how Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry helped her through difficult times

In conversation: Sally Foran and David Kitt

Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet: Landfall, Nonesuch, 2 stars

Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, Lorde, and SZA reigned supreme this year, while the Irish music scene has never been so vibrant

For guitarist Gerry Leonard, the city itself has been his ‘biggest teacher’

And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up

What’s not: the myriad of moths and seriously underweight high street mannequins

‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’

A new book asks music critics and fans that very question, and as you'd expect, the answers vary widely

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

CF campaigner Orla Tinsley responds to ‘devastating’ rejection of the drug she says has transformed her quality of life

Anderson’s late husband, Lou Reed, is an unmentioned presence in a sweetly sentimental tribute

From half-hearted applause to total starman: David Bowie’s biggest Irish gigs remembered

Late American singer’s fortune includes musical rights but not his homes in New York

To create her new tUnE-yArDs album, Merrill Garbus kept strict hours in the studio, writing songs and reading James Joyce. ‘He was one who really shifted what words could do,’ says the fast-talking ex-puppeteer