Hard Candy sounds bloody expensive, but has precious little to declare except an infatuation with its own reflection in a nightclub mirror.

Madonna has become the latest big-name artist to shake up the music industry, after signing a unique new contract with concert promotions company Live Nation.

Reviewing a Madonna compilation is such a futile enterprise one yearns for such purposeful pursuits as staring at a spot on a wall.

Madge’s controversial adoption of a Malian child has focused attention on the often murky world of third world adoption.

Plans to bring Madonna to Croke Park have hit a brick wall.

The presence of Madonna feels almost incidental, as Price deals in back-beats and a pounding glib electro-clash. What comes out the other end, sparkling yet...

Stuart Clark looks back at the music stories that made the headlines in 2004.

Despite the hype and controversy surrounding ticket sales in the run up to Slane 2004, on the night it certainly looked as near to a sell-out as made no...

Has Madonna become the immaterial girl? Or will the Re-invention tour re-establish her as the foremost female icon on the planet? On the eve of her first...

After several months of will she/won't she speculation, MCD have announced that Madonna will definitely bring her Re:invention Greatest Hits World Tour to...

Critics were almost unanimous in their approval last night as Madonna's Re-Invention Tour kicked off at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles...

With Madonna's tour about to debut in Los Angeles this Monday, some of Slane's residents seem determined to keep their town out of pop history. The...

Meath County Council have received a formal licence application from Slane promoters, with the date - confirmed as "the Lord's Day" - drawing protests from...

The odds on Madonna playing Slane on the weekend of August 28/29 have shortened considerably with the singer confirming a third London date at Wembley Arena...

Details are emerging of Madonna's upcoming re-INVENTION tour which will take in Slane festival this August

Madonna is to be presiding over this year's Slane proceedings, with August 21 the likely date for the festival

To be the honest, the history of Madonna remixes has been a chequered one. Even during her last golden period, every ‘Like A Prayer’ or William Orbit...

Whoever told Madonna that this song was actually any good must’ve been more concerned with their payroll than her actual music, for I fail to recall the...

"Its hardly the “revolutionary point of view” that she is laying claim to, but it does sound all the more invigorating coming straight from the lips of...

All together it’s like a musical flick book through the myriad of Madonna’s incarnations from the early ‘90s to the present day.

On Like A Prayer Ms. Ciccone concocts a potent pot-pourri of re-discovery and re-invention.

One half expects to lick open the case of this CD and see a free gift of Madonna's public hairs float to the floor.

One half expects to lick open the case of this CD and see a free gift of Madonna's public hairs float to the floor.

‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’ is similar in tone and texture to the Natalie Imbrugalia smash ‘Smoke’

MADONNA: “Bedtime Stories” (WEA)

Pop fans d’un certain age will remember the jolt: the electrifying shock of the new, followed by the realisation that nothing will ever be the same again.

Madonna: “Bye Bye Baby” (Sire/Warner Bros)