Music Lists

Although time no longer exists in our turbulent world, we are now past the traditional halfway point in the year. That means it's time for HeadStuff's best albums of 2020 so far. 2020 has seen massive upheaval for the music industry, but…

One final list to round out the year and, indeed, the decade. The end-of-year lists were tough to narrow down, so the task of picking just a few albums from an entire decade of music was straight-up Herculean. Inevitably, we had to leave…

Another year, another list. Here at HeadStuff we've taken a simple approach to the selection process—just picking our own personal favourites. There were some close calls and a few artists can count themselves unfortunate to narrowly miss…

It’s undeniable that 2019 has been a great year for Irish music. Many of the artists included below have found themselves on international end-of-year lists from huge publications. Others have delivered such promising debuts that they could…

The debut album is a statement of artistic creativity, intended to launch a musician's career proper. Not all hit the ground running, however. Even the most important bands in history don't always deliver great debuts. The Beatles debut…

Lana Del Rey has just released her latest single, the fantastically titled ‘hope is dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it’. With a host of lyrical references to everything from Sylvia Plath to the iPad, the track is…

Each November, thousands of music fans from all over the world flock to Reykjavik for the city’s annual gathering, Iceland Airwaves. It’s a four-day festival which this year attracted over 8,500 attendees. Notable headliners over the years…

December is a time for reflection, to look back and weigh in on those stand-out moments from the year that was. You'll see a plethora of "Best Of 2018" lists across the web but right here at HeadStuff Music we want to focus on our…

The nineties was alive with diverse music scenes and subcultures, and one of the most influential and abiding was the UK techno scene emerging from underground clubs and basements. The UK was full of electronic pioneers who brought techno…

2017 happened, whether we liked it or not. We’ve had a week or so to open our eyes again after the Christmas hibernation period, and it would appear that we have to do it all over again in 2018. Donald Trump is still the president of the…