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Catching Up With Bell X1

For their excellent new album, Bloodless Coup, one of Ireland's finest bands—Bell X1—got together in the studio to craft 10 more spacious epics.  read more

Jack White Talks About Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Britney Spears At Dublin College

On Sunday night, Dead Weather/White Stripes/Raconteurs rocker Jack White paid a visit to an audience of Trinity College students in Dublin, only this time without a guitar hanging from his neck....  read more

Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill: Welcome Here Again

Renowned Irish fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill have been making music together since the 1980s...  read more

Dublin Calling: How the Irish Bagpipes Point Me Home

What do I remember about my first seven years? I remember that I spent them in Ireland. I remember the rain and the pervasive grey skies that made every color on earth below—natural and manufactured—seem bottomless. I remember those rare sunny days that occasionally prompted women to stand in their front yards wearing bras like bikini tops, soaking up what sun they could. We were deadly pale, the ghostly descendants of Adam and Eve, and we felt no shame. ...  read more