The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against it, says Guardian columnist John Harris ...

Lyra When my mam and dad were together, we actually lived across the road from my auntie, and every Christmas morning mam would put in her turkey and we’d go over to my aunt’s. She’d have a lot of ...

Purdue goes to Pasadena and rubs shoulders with Hollywood celebrities. The game, though, leaves something more to be desired.

Some carols are among the oldest musical compositions still sung. At first listen, the Wexford Carol sounds reliably old and medieval in its construction. Its verses conventionally and joyfully ...

Now that it’s a fixture on lists of the greatest Canadian rock albums of all time, it’s easy to forget that Sloan’s Twice ...