Glen Hansard

The Frames and Swell Season founder is back with his follow-up to 2012's 'Rhythm and Repose.'

Irish singer-songwriter, Swell Season frontman and actor Glen Hansard performed a song by the late Jason Molina on 'The Late Show with David Letterman.'

Glen Hansard has announced he will join former Songs: Ohia members on an upcoming tribute EP to Jason Molina.

Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard is no stranger to television, having performed live in front of a global audience when he won the Best Original Song Oscar for 'Falling Slowly' from the movie 'Once' back in 2008. Last night (Dec 4), he returned to the boob tube with a guest appearance on the NBC family drama 'Parenthood,' where he turned in a performance of 'High Hope,' a tune from his debut s

Listen, Glen Hansard is melodramatic, treacly, and earnest. Painfully earnest. Usually embarrassingly earnest.

Glen Hansard knows how you feel. The Oscar-winning crooner has one of the most vulnerable, as well as most affecting, voices in the singer-songwriter racket -- a man of a million sympathies. While the male half of the Swell Season doesn’t branch out far on ‘Rhythm and Repose,’ his first solo album gives your heartstrings nearly as great a tug at anything he’s done.

Glen Hansard makes his solo debut today (June 19) with his new album 'Rhythm and Repose,' but he gave fans an early peek at the new material last night on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno,' performing the song 'Love Don't Leave Me Waiting.'

Glen Hansard is obviously stoked that the Broadway musical based on the 2006 film 'Once' (which he stars in with Markéta Irglová) cleaned up at the Tony Awards recently, but he'll be the first person to admit he wasn't really involved -- or interested -- in adapting his music for the production.

Last night on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,' Glen Hansard played a gorgeous version of 'High Hope,' a track from his new 'Rhythm and Repose' album.

He's now a solo artist in his own right, but for a lot of fans, Glen Hansard will always be one-half of the Swell Season, the alt-folk duo that got its start in the gracefully unspooling frames of the hit 2007 film 'Once.' So even though he's prepping the release of his first solo album, he understands why people are still asking about a Swell Season reunion -- just don't expect it to happen any t