All Episodes

The Sick Bed of MacGowan: How the Pogues Changed Modern Ireland

The Sound of Garvaghy Road: Music, Protest & the Drumcree Standoff

The Importance of Being Macklemore and The Free Palestine Tour

The Assassination of Macklemore by the Coward Ed Sheeran

Oasis Don’t Look Back In Anger, Masculinity & Learning to Forgive

Does Music Have a Nepo Baby Problem?

Dolly Parton Won: The Legacy of an American Icon

Fontaines D.C. ‘Marianne’: Nowhere Left to Escape

Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend: The Sound of Living Through This

Was David Bowie a Fascist? The Thin White Duke

U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday | This Is Not a Rebel Song

After Brat | Charli XCX’s Music, Fashion, Film

Gilla Band, Mental Health and the Sound of Modern Ireland

Why Julian Casablancas Refuses to Shut Up | The Strokes, Gaza & Political Speech

Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Boys: The Machine Killing Us

The Continued Fall of Róisín Murphy

Why Gen Z Loves The Cure | Olivia Rodrigo, Robert Smith & Music Discovery

Why Ireland Still Sings Viva la Quinta Brigada | Christy Moore, Anti-Fascism & the Belfast Riots

AI Ozzy and the Death of Endings

CMAT Just Said What Most Pop Stars Won’t

How Irish Music Helped Break the Catholic Church’s Power

Why Artists Are Scared To Change | Charli XCX, Rock Music & Authenticity in the Streaming Era

Beyond Gender: The Real Meaning of Running Up That Hill

Fenian: Language, Identity & Kneecap’s Most Political Album

Who Gets Banned From Eurovision? Politics, Boycotts & the 2026 Crisis

Why Female Pop Stars Still Have to Do More | Bieber vs Sabrina Carpenter at Coachella

Ali Ghamsari’s Power Plant Protest: Music, Risk, and War in Iran

Kanye West, Bully & The Rebirth of the Author

Kneecap in Cuba: Music, Politics, and the Backlash

Rosalía’s Lux Tour and the Art of Pop Performance

Is Skinty Fia the First Great Irish Album of the 21st Century?

Peaky Blinders and the Genius of “Wrong” Music | The Immortal Man Soundtrack

Should Ireland Boycott Israel? Culture, Sport & The Politics of Participation

U2, Gaza, and the Politics of Days of Ash

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show and the Politics of Love

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show & America’s Cultural Battleground

Pop Music, ICE & the Silence of Refusal

The “Difficult” Woman in Music

Sinéad O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds” and the Stories Power Tells

Capitalism Colonises Culture: How Music Lost Its Value

David Bowie, Blackstar, and the Art of Disappearing

Phil Lynott, Old Town & the Meaning of Belonging

How John Lennon Turned a Christmas Song Into a Performance Art

Why CMAT’s Euro Country is the Album of 2025

Musicians Fighting Fascists: Why 2025 Changed Everything

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett & the Grief Behind Wish You Were Here

Kneecap’s ‘No Comment’: The Final Word

Charli XCX, John Cale & the Gothic Reinvention of ‘House’

Ghost Town: Then & Now – From The Specials to Lankum

Rosalía “Berghain”: When Pain Becomes Art

Róisín Murphy and the Fragility of Allyship

Who Owns America’s Stage? Bad Bunny & The Super Bowl Reaction

Why the Right and Record Labels Want to Replace Artists with AI

House of Guinness: How the Soundtrack Saved It

Mo Chara Walks Free: What the Kneecap Trial Means for Art & Free Speech

Fascists Can’t Dance

Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights Is the Best Brontë Adaptation

Kneecap’s Imperial Phase: What Sayōnara Says About Irish Culture

CMAT’s Euro-Country: The Right Artist at the Right Time

Florence + The Machine: The Witch Returns

U2, Sarajevo and Gaza: When Music Speaks Out And When It Doesn’t

For Those I Love: Carving the Stone & Confronting Toxic Masculinity

Up De Flats, Sheriff Street, and the Sound of Resistance – Five Years of Gemma Dunleavy

CMAT, Euro-Country & the Ghosts of the Celtic Tiger

Champagne Supernova, Oasis and the Moment Before Everything Changed

No Nostalgia, No Mercy: Why Clipse’s New Album Hits Harder Than Ever

Bob Vylan, Censorship & the Fight for Protest Music at Glastonbury 2025

The Night Sinéad O’Connor Ripped Up the Pope & Refused to Stay Silent

Kneecap, Mo Chara & The Irish Voice Britain Still Can’t Silence

Fontaines D.C., Blindboy & Ireland’s Lost Generation | In the Modern World

Francis Bacon & Why Gilla Band Might Be the Most Influential Band of the 21st Century

Kanye West, Through the Wire & the Problem of Loving Art by Problematic Artists

The Stage Vs The State: Kneecap, Mo Chara & The Criminalisation of Art

Ghosts in the Reverb: Maria Somerville’s Luster and the Rise of Irish Dream Pop

ANSEO: Redefining Irishness Through Music

Kneecap, Glastonbury & the Cost of Speaking Out

Kneecap, Coachella, and Speaking Truth - Why Protest Music Still Matters

Escaping the Dream: Lana Del Rey’s Henry, Come On & Bluebird Explained

Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE: A Beautiful Epilogue in Sound

Drake’s ‘Nokia’ and the Kendrick-Sized Shadow

I Was WRONG About CMAT – Now I Can’t Stop Listening

Hold Me, Thrill Me: U2’s Darkest Fame Anthem

You Haven’t Found Your Favorite Artist Yet: How Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club Found Its Audience

Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush – Don’t Give Up: The Perfect Duet & Its Lasting Impact

Fontaines D.C., It’s Amazing To Be Young, & The Irish Reinvention of Britpop

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Performance: A Trojan Horse in Plain Sight

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Moment: Proving Hip-Hop Is High Art

Marianne Faithfull & Metallica: The Haunting Voice Behind The Memory Remains

David Lynch’s Crazy Clown Time: The Soundtrack to His Surreal World

Manic Street Preachers - From Generation Terrorists to Critical Thinkers

David Bowie’s Berlin Era: The Story Behind Heroes and His Reinvention

Is ‘Stay (Faraway, So Close!) U2’s Best Song?

Why Fontaines D.C. Starburster is my Favourite Song 2024

How Shane MacGowan, Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues Changed the Sound of Christmas Forever

Irish Artists in 2024 - Taking on the Tories, Fighting Fascism & Standing With Palestine

Kendrick Lamar GNX Review - The Imperial Phase and the Zeitgeist

Father John Misty Mahashmashana Review - The ID, the Ego, and what’s next

Linkin Park From Zero Album Review

Tyler, the Creator Chromakopia Review - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown & Artistic Identity