Villagers have landed at the top of the Irish albums chart with their debut LP Becoming A Jackal. The Dublin band's disc is followed by Justin Bieber's My Worlds and Lady GaGa's The Fame Monster ...

Conor O’Brien is a poet who writes and records his musings into song as Villagers. This troubadour’s sixth album, That Golden Time, is chock full of dazzling melodies, pristine instrumentation, and ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered we've got a bunch of new-year premieres for you, including a special collaboration between Tom Waits and Keith Richards. The two veteran musicians recorded ...

On this week's All Songs Considered, we look at one of life's immutable truths: Nothing's ever easy! Or, at least some things are way harder than they need to be. That's part of the message in the ...