Pandemic as muse? Artists on their art in a year of lockdowns
Colm McGuirk asks three Dublin-based artists how their work has been shaped by events of the last year
Category: Culture + Entertainment
Podcast: Sophie Doyle Ryder making a splash at 18
Malahide singer Sophie Doyle Ryder talks to Niamh Alexander about her promising start in pop
Label Lockdown: Running an independent record company during Covid-19
Parts of the music industry ground to a halt in spring of 2020, with live gigs no longer an option for artists. Johnny Welfare, a hip-hop producer and co-founder of Róg Records, spoke to David Doyle about the impact of Covid-19 on the business
Podcast: Roisin Kiberd explores our Digital Dystopia in The Disconnect
Listen to Irish author Roisin Kiberd chat to Jake Hurley about her new book and why her relationship with the internet changed in 2016. Read on below for Jake Hurley’s thoughts on The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
Apollo Monroe is ready to rule Dublin’s hyperpop scene
Katy Brennan chats with Dublin-based artist Apollo Monroe about hyperpop, his debut single, and the future of the genre in Ireland
Unforgetting Odetta
In 1961 Dr Martin Luther King, Jr called her the “queen of American folk music” – 60 years later it’s time to recognise Odetta for the cultural icon she is