We present another story from the RTÉ Short Story Competition shortlist 2024: read The Rehearsal by Alexis MacIsaac below.

Apparently, there are five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. No-one mentioned ...

Primal Scream’s 12th album sees Bobby Gillespie banging on about poverty, democracy and colonialism. It’s both sublime and ...

The Sayreville native and The War and Treaty, aka married singer-songwriters Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter, performed ...

In FML #1, a teen's heavy metal fantasies collide with a supernatural reality in Portland. Can Riley balance high school, ...

This is particularly apparent on “All I Ever Am”, which lifts a synth string pad from My Bloody ... Every so often, though, we steer into stormy seas, the sudden stomach drop of a minor chord.

For him, performing his music is its own reward — one reason he sings at close to full power, his voice brawny yet lithe ...

Rock and roll is capable of being a genre of great excess, but these cover songs are ridiculously over the top.

The rocker has been recovering from vocal cord surgery and live performances ... My name is Jon Bon Jovi and I am very proud to be here today in support of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be the ...

The album introduces its main themes and general sound powerfully in “Alone,” with a harsh, distorted guitar tone powerfully cutting through ... Beneath the sweet chords, however, is Smith’s darker ...

A song heavy with restlessness, "Urge for Going" was written in the mid-'60s before Mitchell left Canada, and was originally recorded by her friend Tom Rush. It was eventually released as a B-side to ...