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Wicklow disco
She's always had the music in her, but Wicklow singer Róisín Murphy needed to go solo in order to fulfil her big ambition. She talks sequins with Jim Carroll.
Oops I did it again: showbiz casualties mount up
On the last weekend in October, Róisín Murphy played a show in Moscow which she won't forget in a hurry.
Duets with the dead
Johnny Cash has been dead for four years, but his kid brother Tommy has brought him back to life in what sounds like a ghoulish live show. Davin O'Dwyer looks at the phenomenon of the posthumous duet.
It's freakin Deacon
Every Dan Deacon gig is a screaming playground of dancing devotees, wildly bopping to his wonky pop. What's his secret? Get off the stage, he tells Jim Carroll
dadrocker
It's that time when when music critics compile albums of the year, and for me there is only one contender.
As Jay-Z disses the dollar, how much is 50 Cent worth in euro?
Market analysts and currency experts can wibble on as much as they like on TV programmes that no one watches, but perhaps the most significant blow to the ailing US dollar was dealt by a rap star during a five- second clip in a new video.
