Music

Anderson’s extensive body of work included five number ones on the country charts

The Irish trad band say the star should have cancelled tour dates rather than allow Macklemore to be dropped from the bill over his support for Palestine

Singer beat other nominees including Galway-born singer-songwriter Dove Ellis, Paul McCartney and Olivia Dean

Plus: Which English metal band guested on an episode of The Young Ones?

Warring egos, studio shenanigans and bad blood taken to the grave: after a turbulent career, the band are bringing their farewell tour to Ireland

Liam Gallagher has accused Fontaines DC of ‘not being good enough’ to open for them despite releasing five dud-free albums while Oasis rack up a fortune as a nostalgia jukebox for Gen-Xers

The art rockers felt they were the next big thing. But tastes change. Who determines what’s popular, and where do the ideas they champion come from?

Announcement comes as U2 gear up to release new album Carnaval De Luz

Francesco Turrisi’s musical life had mirrored his family background, divided between Turin and Sicily. Then, 20 years ago, the multi-instrumentalist added Ireland to the mix

Plus: In 2014, Patti Smith made a guest appearance as a doctor in which US drama series?

Grumbling has arisen around a new posthumous album of vocal gurglings from the foreman of The Fall with music added after his death. Which is fairly on-brand

Conor Deegan and Tom Coll on Dopamine Chamber, which the band’s lead singer, Grian Chatten, says needed to be a ‘catastrophic warning’

Beckham and his band, The Breakers, will support The Reytons at Dublin’s 3Olympia

Plus: Which US singer is set to play the role of Hollywood movie star/dancer Ginger Rogers in a forthcoming biopic of Fred Astaire?

The American singer has become a category of one: a singer with two feet in the past and his head in the present