DrownedInSound — This is a really fine album more info

Uncut — Johnny Depp, Sinéad O'Connor and Glen Hansard also performed Photo by Richard Young/REX/Shutterstock Johnny Depp, Sinéad O'Connor and Glen Hansard also performed The post Watch Nick Cave, Bono and more at Shane MacGowan’s 60th birthday conce... more info

Stereogum — Shane MacGowan, frontman of the legendary Irish punk band the Pogues, turned 60 years old on Christmas. And tonight, just after we lost one Irish music icon, a bunch of celebrities and musicians gathered to pay tribute to another. Nick Cave, Johnny D... more info

Nialler9 — The National Concert Hall will host a Shane MacGowan 60th Birthday Celebration on January 15th next year and a lot of famous people will be in attendance to participate including Shane MacGowan himself and: Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie of Primal ... more info

Nialler9 — Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn aka Ye Vagabonds are Carlow brothers who have found a place for themselves in the music scene in Ireland through the help of more-established musicians like Glen Hansard, Villagers, Roy Harper, Lisa Hannigan and... more info

Nialler9 — Electric Picnic may be long sold out but we are still not near finding out the smaller stages in Stradbally. Here are the latest bits: Jerry Fish’s Electric Sideshow Circus, cabaret, burlesque and sideshow performers from the U.K. and Ireland... more info

Nialler9 — Other Voices have revealed the first names for their Electric Picnic stage lineup for September will feature: Saint Sister Odetta Hartman Loah Charlie Cunningham Katie Laffan SOULÉ Jafaris More to be announced. In previous years, OV host... more info

Nialler9 — Dermot Kennedy is a young folk singer-songwriter who has been making some industry noise in the last year. Live, he has supported the likes of Glen Hansard and James Vincent McMorrow and Spotify streams of last year’s ‘After Rain’, a wood... more info

Consequence of Sound — He'll be joined by Glen Hansard. more info

MSN Music — Late Late Show music guest Glen Hansard performs "Paying My Way." more info