47+ min ago   (300+ words) Lola Young’s surprise appearance at Electric Picnic on Saturday quickly answers two questions. The first is who’ll be filling the midafternoon gap in the Main Stage line-up that was announced earlier in the week. But the self-styled Dunboyne Diana is…...

2+ hour ago   (416+ words) “It’s ‘whatever’ to me,” Violet Grohl said recently about claims that she’s a nepo baby. “I’m beyond grateful for the life that I was born into,” she told the online music magazine The Forty-Five. “It’s such a privilege to be…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago   (475+ words) Irish comedian Marty Gleeson was among two “brilliant writers and performers” to win the top gongs at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. SNL UK writer Chris Cantrill and Gleeson have taken home the prize for best comedy show and best newcomer…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (116+ words) At Electric Picnic this weekend? Here are Sunday’s acts, stage times and expected weather. Prepare for a wet – even stormy – day. Rain is likely between 10am and 8pm, especially as the day goes on, with the possibility of thunder and lightning by…...

14+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1384+ words) Kate Stephenson didn’t know how to tell her parents she’d dropped out of college to become a musician. So she wrote a song about it instead. “I did it the day I decided to drop out. It was called Future…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (317+ words) American adolescence finds its perfect expression in musical theatre. In the years after middle school, emotions are raw and personal life plots take dramatic turns. See Glee, High School Musical, Wicked and that infamous episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer....

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (848+ words) The Irish Times The Music Quiz: In Phoebe Bridgers’ Moon Song, which Beatle does she name-check? Plus: Who is the oldest solo male singer to have reached number one on the UK albums chart? Amyl and the Sniffers in Dublin…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (281+ words) Bigger is always better when it comes to the punk sensations Amyl and the Sniffers, who arrive at Collins Barracks sporting supersized riffs, vast mullets and romping, stomping choruses. A product of the rough-and-ready Melbourne pub-rock scene, the group take…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (549+ words) The death of an 80-year-old would not normally be greeted with shock but one of the many aspects of Parton’s force of personality lay in her possession of an unusual vitality and positivity that seemed like a repudiation of age…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (424+ words) Dolly Parton was a true great of country music, a woman who conquered a hard-bitten male-dominated industry and a working-class heroine who never forget her roots. But above all, the singer, who has died aged 80, was a figure of huge…...