Damon Albarn

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Taking the temperature of the Mercury Music Prize . . . still tepid

Taking the temperature of the Mercury Music Prize . . . still tepid

Will Kate Tempest and FKA twigs be slugging it out for the 2014 award?

By Brian BoydFri Aug 15 2014 - 00:00

Festivals worth the trip

Festivals worth the trip

No need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivals

By Lauren MurphySat May 31 2014 - 01:00

The case sensitive tUnE-yArDs bubbles up

The case sensitive tUnE-yArDs bubbles up

To create her new tUnE-yArDs album, Merrill Garbus kept strict hours in the studio, writing songs and reading James Joyce. ‘He was one who really shifted what words could do,’ says the fast-talking ex-puppeteer

By Jim CarrollFri May 02 2014 - 00:00

Damon Albarn’s roots manoeuvre - why the only way was Essex

Damon Albarn’s roots manoeuvre - why the only way was Essex

Following the successful revival of Blur, not to mention his many other musical projects,Damon Albarn has finally recorded a solo album,‘Everyday Robots’. And he went back to his old stomping grounds of East London and Colchester for inspiration

By Jim CarrollFri Apr 25 2014 - 00:00

Big, flat, round, black – despite the hucksters, vinyl has its day

Big, flat, round, black – despite the hucksters, vinyl has its day

Record Store Day has taken a kicking, but there’s hope yet

By Brian BoydFri Apr 18 2014 - 00:00

The Chelsea: bohos, bad behaviour and bed bugs

The Chelsea: bohos, bad behaviour and bed bugs

Jackson Pollock puked there, Dylan wrote lyrics there, Nancy Spungen was killed there – could a space as chaotic as the New York hotel exist today?

By Jim CarrollWed Apr 09 2014 - 01:00

Tinie Tempah: Movin’ on up

Tinie Tempah: Movin’ on up

Tinie Tempah has come a long way from his grime roots of old. Ahead of his forthcoming arena tour, he talks to Jim Carroll about going large – and looking back

By Jim CarrollFri Apr 04 2014 - 00:00

Play That One Song – and once you pop you just can’t stop

Play That One Song – and once you pop you just can’t stop

A discerning and addictive new music site goes for quality over popularity

By Brian BoydFri Feb 21 2014 - 11:10

Phantom’s demons should scare the music radio market

Phantom’s demons should scare the music radio market

The “niche, alternative rock” station has struggled to make its investors a return

By Laura SlatteryThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:12

They shoot, they score

They shoot, they score

A new MA course in Dublin will teach composing for film. It’s a popular job in the US, but can such an instinctive art be taught – and to whom?

By Jim CarrollSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00

Arctic Monkeys and Haim lead NME nominations

Arctic Monkeys and Haim lead NME nominations

One Direction are nominated in worst band category alongside The Wanted

Wed Jan 15 2014 - 12:05

Africa Express: Maison des Jeunes Transgressive

Africa Express: Maison des Jeunes Transgressive

By Jim CarrollFri Dec 27 2013 - 00:00

Kwes: ilp

Kwes: ilp

By Jim CarrollFri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00

Russia rejects Dutch legal action over detention of Greenpeace activists

Russia rejects Dutch legal action over detention of Greenpeace activists

Detainees from 17 countries facing ‘absurd’ charge of piracy

By Peter CluskeyTue Oct 08 2013 - 01:05

Mulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia

Mulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia

By Jim CarrollFri Sept 27 2013 - 00:00

Top 10: music acts most likely to ‘do a Rodgers’

Top 10: music acts most likely to ‘do a Rodgers’

Nile Rodgers, Bobby Womack and Johnny Cash have all showed how musical reinvention is done – who’s next?

By Jim CarrollMon Sept 02 2013 - 01:00

Blur at Imma: Much more than a nostalgia trip

Blur at Imma: Much more than a nostalgia trip

Time has been kind to Albarn and co, who wowed a really full house in the city

By LMACKINMon Aug 05 2013 - 01:00

Blur exhibition: it’s got nothing to do with your vorsprung durch technik, you know

Blur exhibition: it’s got nothing to do with your vorsprung durch technik, you know

The poster-sized prints and original artwork on show at Imma will take fans back to the bedroom of their adolescence

By Emma SomersTue Jul 30 2013 - 01:00

Britpop – Bah! It’s rubbish, innit?

Britpop – Bah! It’s rubbish, innit?

Blur, Oasis, Pulp. Hard to believe it now, but back in the 1990s they were the epitome of cool. These days they’re part of the establishment and modern life is still pretty rubbish. In the run-up to Blur’s IMMA gig next week, time to ponder how Britpop fell flat

By Ian MaleneyFri Jul 26 2013 - 00:00

Bobby Womack brings a bit of Harlem to Dublin

Bobby Womack brings a bit of Harlem to Dublin

Rumours of the singer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated

By LMACKINFri Jul 12 2013 - 01:00

Primavera review: Matthew E White, James Blake, The Knife, Blur

Primavera review: Matthew E White, James Blake, The Knife, Blur

Blur bring their festival form to the Primavera party, but it’s The Knife’s red-in-nature theatricality and James Blake’s glacial talents that are shining brightest

By Laurence MackinSat May 25 2013 - 17:00

The 20 Irish festivals that are outstanding in their own fields

The 20 Irish festivals that are outstanding in their own fields

It’s the summer and the time is right for raving, gigging and having the crack in fields, parks and the open air. Here are the 20 music festivals and events you have to see this summer

By Jim CarrollFri May 17 2013 - 01:00

The Child of Lov

The Child of Lov

By Jim CarrollFri May 03 2013 - 01:00

Bastille Storm The Charts

Bastille Storm The Charts

With his intricate and eccentric songs that meld indie and pop into a stadium-sized whole, Bastille’s Dan Smith is being hailed as a bright spark who might just start a revolution

By AMCTEIRNANFri Mar 29 2013 - 00:00

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