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Gifted Irish-American guitarist Dennis Cahill passed away June 20 at age 68 after a long …
Larry Kirwan is All the Rage
The East Village of the 1980s will be the setting …
“Say Hello” from The Prodigals new Album “Belturbet Town.”
This coming Friday, April 29, 2022, the …
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Music: U2 Fans Find What They are Looking For
Throughout the 1980s, U2 would close their live shows with “40, their anti-war reworking of the New Testament’s fortieth psalm. Over a loping Edge guitar figure, Bono would sing “How […]
Who’s Rappin’ Now?
Tom Dunphy talks to Chris Byrne of Unity Squad. Chris Byrne is an unrepentant Fenian bastard. That’s not a smear by this writer, mind you: the Brooklyn-born uillean piper, who […]
The Blue Ribbon
When I was 13 years old, my mother took my siblings and me to Rockaway Beach in New York City for the day. After we romped in the ocean and […]
Music: Rockin’ 15
The musicians who made being Irish “cool.” The year was 1985. At roughly about the same time that U2’s Bono was stage-diving into the massive crowd gathered for Live Aid, […]
Music Q&A: A Wake Up Call
The Cranberries performed to a small audience at the Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan on August 22 to promote their new CD Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Less than […]