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The cover image from Sabrina Carpenter's forthcoming album Man's Best Friend (Pic: Island Records)

Sabrina Carpenter's new album cover: satire or self-degradation?

Opinion and Analysis

Sly Stone performing with The Family Stone at the Cape Cod Coliseum in July 1973 (Pic: Getty)

Sly Stone remembered: the influential funk pioneer took us higher

Listen: Aedín Gormley's Movies & Musicals live with the RTÉ CO

Listen: Aedín Gormley's Movies & Musicals live with the RTÉ CO

Composer Jane O'Leary (Pic: Mike Shaughnessy)

Composer Jane O'Leary to Receive NCH Lifetime Achievement Award

Something For The Weekend – Lynton Stephens' cultural picks

Something For The Weekend – Lynton Stephens' cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

Field music - Quiet Music Ensemble get ready for their close up

'A truly interdisciplinary sonic art': Quiet Music Ensemble at 10

This is a Bonologue that obeys all the conventions of a stage production, but this being Bono, it is also a folk mass and a sermon

Review: Bono: Stories of Surrender

Macklemore St Annes by Leah Carroll

In The Picture: Macklemore returns for outdoor Dublin gig

Long live Iggy Pop - RTÉ Arena on the Godfather of Punk

Long live Iggy Pop - RTÉ Arena on the Godfather of Punk

Cultural collective Nóisin have hosted a series of sold out events in recent months (Pics: Zoe Ardiff)

What might a modern Irish revival look like in today's world?

Cultural Happenings

Jennifer Walshe and writer Mark O'Connell.'s MARS kicks off the new INO season

To Mars and beyond: Irish National Opera announces 2025-26 season

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This is a Bonologue that obeys all the conventions of a stage production, but this being Bono, it is also a folk mass and a sermon

Review: Bono: Stories of Surrender

Masked and majestic, Sleep Token juxtapose crushing riffage with moments of what-just-happened? beauty Photo: Andy Ford

Wide awake in Arcadia as Sleep Token rouse jaded ears

Nihilistic but romantic, poetic and tender: Fontaines D.C. Photo credit: SImon Wheatley

Review: Fontaines D.C.: weirder, darker, poppier

Kneecap: Not since the heady early nineties days of wayward Dublin crew Scary Eire has an Irish hip-hop act sounded so vital and energetic. Photo credit: Sarah Ellis

Kneecap make an exhibition of themselves on Fine Art

Hackney diamond geezers. Photo credit: Mark Seliger

Review: The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

The Mary Wallopers. Phtoo credit: Sorcha Frances Ryder

The Mary Wallopers back with more DIY diddley aye

Soda Blonde: ambition fulfilled

Soda Blonde dream bigger and bolder on new album

Róisín Murphy performs in concert at Castello Sforzesco, Milan last July

Róisín Murphy journeys to the outer reaches of weird

Olivia Rodrigo: more of the same - except harder, faster and funnier. Photo Credit: Larissa Hofmann

Olivia Rodrigo turns herself inside out on GUTS

Steely Dan: I hear you are singing a song of the past

A double whammy of classic Steely Dan albums

The bawdy, swaggering and frequently drunk "emperor of bloviation" is gone for now and this really is another side of Mik Pyro

Mik Pyro is still on fire on his debut solo album

Shane O'Neill and Dave Long: Age and angst dominate but these songs mostly burst with hope and fond memory. Photo by Noel Farrell and Sabrina Colley

Shane O'Neill and Dave Long: And You Can't Dream That