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The Roundtable | Best Albums Under 30 Minutes
Here at HeadStuff, our writers are forever consuming endless amounts of music on top of the stuff we already write about, and thinking about that music in all sorts of different ways so that our brains can compartmentalize the sheer volume…
Album Review | Anna Mieke Conjures Up A Mystical World On Theatre
The second album from Anna Mieke is both concise and sprawling.
Concise in that it is a mere eight tracks long; sprawling in that only two of those tracks are less than five minutes, and one is nearly eight. Theatre opens with the…
Album Review | Hearts Aglow As Weyes Blood Guides Us Through The Darkness
Natalie Mering released Titanic Rising, one of the best records of 2019, intending it to be the first album in a planned trilogy. By channeling her sunbaked Laurel Canyon soft rock predecessors like Karen Carpenter and Joni Mitchell,…
Album Review | Video Blue Balances Ambient Electronica And Eighties Nostalgia On The Pull
Dundalk native Jim O’Donoghue Martin, better known as Video Blue, combines spoken word, ambient electronica and guitar driven alt-pop on his third record The Pull. Anyone familiar with O'Donoghue Martin's previous self-recorded,…
THE PLAYLIST | Nirvana’s Greatest Covers
“There is nothing in the world I like more than pure underground music.”
Kurt Cobain
At the start of any band or artist's career, covering songs is part and parcel on the road to fame. Often the repertoire they touch upon gives…
Album Review | Ispíní na hÉireann Blend Skillful Instrumentation And Irreverent Comedy On A…
15 years in the Irish education system means I can stand before you now and say with supreme confidence that Ispíní na hÉireann means “Sausages of Ireland” as Gaeilge. What my years of schooling never thought to tell me was why the…
Album Review | The Mary Wallopers Offer Rousing Renditions Of Trad Classics
If you’re not already familiar with them by now, The Mary Wallopers are a three-piece ballad group comprising brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy and their friend Sean McKenna, who have spent the past several years touring all corners of…
HeadStuff’s Best New Irish Music | 9 Best Tracks Of October
Another month, another excellent selection of the best new tracks and artists around the country. HeadStuff's Best New Irish Music is back to name the latest and greatest for the month that was October 2022.
Oh, and don't forget - if…
Album Review | Aoife Nessa Frances Evolves On Protector
After a two year wait, Aoife Nessa Frances unleashes her sophomore album Protector.
This follow up to 2020’s Land of No Junction has already received acclaim for lead single 'Way to Say Goodbye' and the rest of the album follows a…
THE HALLOWEEN PLAYLIST | The Satanic Sound Of Backmasking
Before we delve into the satanic sounds of that sinister music technique known as backmasking, I cannot say that evil does not exist in the grooves of a vinyl record.
I did have the misfortune to once endure the musical ramblings of…