Ed Power

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

Rock music arrives at the quarter mark of the 21st century in a strange place. To the extent that anything interesting is happening, it is largely in the margins. Out in the daylight this is the era of the big beasts of antiquity: Oasis on the comeback trail, the middle-aged happy chappies Coldplay making it their mission to sprinkle the world in figurative and literal confetti, U2 trying to work out what to do next.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

There are obvious parallels between the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London and the Stardust fire in Artane, Dublin, in that they were preventable calamities where the families of the dead were left waiting far too long for answers. There is also the fact that, in both cases, the victims were mainly working class. That element of the story is tackled head-on in Grenfell Uncovered, Olaide Sadiq’s hard-hitting documentary about the 2017 London catastrophe, which claimed 72 lives.

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Ed Power

The death of Beach Boys’ tortured genius Brian Wilson has brought down the curtains on a particular mode of Southern California pop: sun-kissed, melancholic and surf-obsessed. But another popular genre of LA music lives on in the irresistible new album from San Fernando Valley all-sister trio Haim: the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac vision of a break-up as a gateway to 1970s-style, scented-candles-adjacent soft-rock nirvana.

1 week ago | msn.com | Ed Power

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1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Ed Power

In the UK, it is estimated that some 1.3 million people have bipolar disorder – more than have dementia. The statistics are presumably much the same in Ireland and yet the condition remains taboo and largely undiscussed. For that reason, it never occurred to celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal that he might have the disorder when he began to experience manic episodes several years ago. While he suspected he was neurodivergent, the word “bipolar” never crossed his mind.