The RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2025 shortlist spans established names and rising acts across pop punk, ...

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It takes a brave musician to walk away from a format people know and love and to venture into an area that might win them respect but little commercial gain. Replacing the chummy Bressie with his full ...

The votes are in, and it isn’t a shock to find that CMAT has romped home in three of the categories in our annual poll of Irish Times music critics. Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson scoops the (virtual) ...

Okay, okay, it’s 2026 and the future is bright, the future is playing traditional music. This year promises to be a milestone in the burgeoning popularity of all kinds of traditional music, from the ...

Ishna, an Irish band founded by Ciaran Nagle and Tara Novak, recorded their first album in a historic barn in Peterborough, NH, with the help of the local community, and the album, Sli Amach, is now ...

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RTÉ documentary traces US superstar’s heartfelt and often hilarious journey Meat Loaf on his tour of Ireland with Tommy and Geraldine Swarbrigg at Shannon Airport, 1990 When US superstar Meat Loaf ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. I was once in the Irish town of Kilkenny on a Monday night, generally the quietest night for live music. Yet of the dozen pubs I chanced ...

A film location scout who found the dramatic landscapes made famous by Game Of Thrones is channelling the inspiration from those rugged backdrops to launch a solo music career. Robbie Boake spent more ...