The year's best pop music from Lily Allen; The quiet and contemplative Damien Rice; Chilling out with The Hold Steady; Three new CDs from Tom Waits; A tragic treasury from The Gothic Archies; Surreal ...

Do you find yourself saying "no" more often than not? Robin Hilton does, which is why he kicks off this week's All Songs Considered with L.A.-based Afternoons' joyful sing-along, "Say Yes." Next, Bob ...

Rice wears his heart on his sleeve in this gutsy, widescreen meditation on life and love. Songs We Love: Damien Rice, 'It Takes A Lot To Know A Man' Damien Rice wears his heart on his sleeve. His new ...

In the mid-'90s, in Dublin, Damien Rice's band Juniper released a hit single, causing the record company to demand another hit single, causing Damien Rice to bristle, quit the band, leave the country ...

Even with an audience including Julia Roberts, Renee Zellweger, George Clooney and Nicolas Cage, singer-songwriter Damien Rice is not a background kind of guy. All those stars attended a gig that Rice ...

Impassioned is too light of an expression to describe the music of singer-songwriter Damien Rice. Rice brought his A game to the stagnant confines of South Side Ballroom on Wednesday night, but it was ...

Singer-songwriter Damien Rice has fine-tuned the art of delivering his ardent, lovelorn folk gems to maximum heartrending effect. Last night was no different. Stepping onstage for the first of two ...

There was a moment, somewhere in the region of early to mid 2004, when Damien Rice was, for me at least, Ireland’s most exciting musician. This might seem a bold claim, one to be derided, scoffed at, ...

1 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Please Read the Letter.” Subdued in its sadness, yet still clinging to hope, this is one of my favorite jams that they played last summer at the Somerset ...