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Album Review | The Murder Capital Explore New Territory On Gigi’s Recovery
In a recent interview about their new album, The Murder Capital’s lead singer James McGovern said that “to make a record that sounded anything like would have been wild to us”. Well, mission accomplished as the resulting record, Gigi’s…
HeadStuff Picks | The 16 Best Albums Of 2022
Well, that's a wrap. Another fine year of music excellence has passed us by, and now that we've cast our votes on a bountiful selection of Irish gems, it's time to look further afield at the international stage for those LPs that made our…
HeadStuff Picks | The 16 Best Irish Albums Of 2022
It's that time once again! We're making a list and we've checked it twice, but all of the stuff below is definitely nice. As is tradition here at HeadStuff, before we get to our international picks from this past twelve months, we are…
THE CHRISTMAS PLAYLIST | Non Festive Christmas Number Ones
It is that time of year again. Everytime we walk into a supermarket, a pub, or even on the street, we are bombarded with Christmas music. Yes, it can be quite monotonous hearing the same 'Happy Xmas Everybody' or 'Merry Christmas Everyone'…
Album Review | Aoife Wolf Crafts Haunting Tales Of The Wetlands
Have you ever spent time in the wetlands?
When I was growing up, I walked around the bogs surrounding my grandmother’s house from morning until night, practicing sword fighting with tree branches and jumping from stone to stone to…
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…