Online gigs to ring in the new year and get you through early January

The Academic, Mick Flannery and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh among those offering streamed shows

What are the best Irish albums of 2020 – so far?

From hip hop and rap to noisy guitars and pop, here’s the 10 best albums you should not miss

The best rock and pop concerts in Ireland this week

Hozier, Primal Scream and Villagers performing around the country

MusicTown 2019 festival: Everything you need to know

Events across Dublin city from feature Blindboy and play ‘My Father’s Kind’

Damien Dempsey: Union review – Darkness on the edge of Damo Town

The singer-songwriter's unusual twist on the Christmas duets album features Sinéad O’Connor, Kate Tempest and John Grant

Forbidden Fruit festival: everything you need to know

Line-up, tickets, opening times, security, transport and the acts not to miss

This Album Changed My Life: Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)

Paul Alwright, FKA Lethal Dialect, on the soul singer’s seminal recording

Lethal Dialect: his aim is true

Dublin rapper Paul Alwright has produced three albums as Lethal Dialect, but he feels his new one is the first time he’s been truly personal. He tells Jim Carroll about his route to “1988”

Lethal Dialect and JackknifeJ: 1988