Norah Jones: Visions – From contentment to melancholy, but all in the same dreamy tone
And a lovely tone it is, too, but overall it makes for forgettable listening
Norah Jones
Ryan Adams accused of abusive behaviour with underage girl
Singer calls article ‘upsettingly inaccurate’ but also admits he was ‘not a perfect man’
Mercury Rev: Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited review – Celebration of artistic bravery
Mercury Rev enlist Hope Sandoval, Norah Jones, Margo Price, Phoebe Bridgers for Bobbie Gentry tribute album
Gig of the week – The Spike Cello Festival
The second edition of Dublin’s genre-blind alternative festival is back next week to once again challenge cello orthodoxy
The vinyl frontier: coming soon to a furniture store near you
Dedicated record stores may be closing, but vinyl lives on - in the décor and pillows section
Starbucks should be run out of Ireland - never mind Howth
....and they can take their Frappuccinos with them
Michael Kiwanuka: “You have to be able to kill your babies”
Michael Kiwanuka was the sound of 2012, but the making of his follow-up album proved to be a less than easy affair. He talks artistic sacrifices and keeping the faith
Melody Gardot: ‘Music activates the brain at a high level’
Gardot began writing songs as therapy after a serious accident left her with memory and speech problems
Hell’s Bells and disco balls
The Shins frontman James Mercer on how he and Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton came up with the second Broken Bells album, ‘After the Disco’, and their mutual love of the Bee Gees
Martha Wainwright on the concert for her mother that turned into a wake
As the concert for her mother that turned into a wake that turned into a film gets its Irish premiere, Canadian folk-rock marvel Martha Wainwright tells Tara Brady about her mum Kate McGarrigle, her brother Rufus – and performing through a veil of tears
Olivia Trummer: “I don’t trust musicians who can’t dance”
Berlin pianist and singer Olivia Trummer, one of the highlights of the 12 Points Festival in Dublin last February, blends real talent as a jazz pianist with unusually perceptive songs about love and life – and has a zest for life to match
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