I desperately needed some distraction, and found it in new music from Taylor Swift, Lily Allen and Bressie

New album ‘interrogates sociological changes in traditional relationships’

The centuries-deep tradition of the artist trading in metaphor is gone, as Allen breezily lyricises about her infidelitous husband’s bag of sex toys

Millennials and Gen X-ers haven’t been as united on social media since Wagatha Christie became a courtroom drama

Lily Allen and David Harbour bought the five-bed home after they got married in 2020

A pop album is not the most suitable conduit for the singer’s grim portraits of the break-up of her marriage

We collect statistics on where abortions happen in Ireland and under what part of the legislation, and little else. We have zero interest in knowing why women have them

Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan

Summer music falls into two broad categories: songs that make you feel better about the life you have and songs that offer a fantasy of a more glamorous, more exotic existence that is somehow as magically affordable as the drinks at Club Tropicana

Beautiful arrangements are in abundance here, although many of Nash’s lyrics sound like the aural equivalent of an exposed nerve

Allen, who stars in McDonagh’s play The Pillowman, on turning to acting, dealing with addiction and her disillusionment with the music industry

Television: Horgan and Allen’s new dramedy has a big problem: it’s just not funny

Tech tools can be used to ingest the creativity of artists, learn from it, then spew out music and lyrics at scale. That’s not ideal

Matriarchal music, from John Lennon’s tribute to his mother Julia to the Spice Girls' magnificent Mama

Pop’s mums have told of guilt, loneliness and prejudice. Do men face the same problems?

There’s an undeniable buzz about the country’s first festival for LGBTQ+ community and its friends

All Saints at Leopardstown, Carnival of Funk in Cork, and Another Love Story in Meath

After overnight fame led Kate Nash to a breakdown and bankruptcy, the singer has found a new lane

18-year-old singer from West Sussex whose folk-pop songs feel like snapshot in time

The capital’s newest festival is aimed at the LGBT+ community and friends