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Well, it would be rude not to, wouldn't it? After all, we've had the 20 Best Songs of the year to date* so this is the only logical follow-up. Following a truly rigorous selection process, we've come up with a fair reflection of the…

Hailing from Dublin, experimental trio Almost Ghosts have just released new double A-side 'For This' and 'Quiet Ground', which you can check out below. We caught up with bassist David Dooley to talk ghosts (naturally), Taylor Swift, Kanye…

It's that most wonderful time of year again where just enough time has elapsed to the point that it's vaguely acceptable to present an early 'best of' countdown. Let's not waste any further space and get right to the official HeadStuff Top…

Dublin metal heroes Red Enemy kick off their Irish tour this Thursday (June 25) in Galway with the mighty Bitch Falcon by their side. Before that carnage can commence, frontman Kevin Letford and guitarist Conor Dockery sat down with…

Forbidden Fruit is an odd one. In the five years since its inception, the Kilmainham-based festival has welcomed just about every genre of music imaginable (okay, maybe not skiffle) to its grounds. We've had turns from The Flaming Lips…

Mumford & Sons Wilder Mind Is it fashionable to think that Mumford & Sons are rubbish or are they simply worthy of scorn? You might say they're easy to slag off but an album as violently anaemic and cloying as Wilder Mind offers…

If you've yet to get acquainted with Mylets, a one-man wrecking crew with a taste for multi-layered musical structures and a keen sonic edge, sort that out quick smart. At just 20 years young, Henry Kohen has dropped out of college,…

Over the course of 16 years, John Connolly has infused his Charlie Parker books with gothic charm and supernatural happenings while still managing to retain the integrity and expected formula associated with crime fiction. He's been…

As author behind the best-selling, critically-acclaimed Charlie Parker series, John Connolly has always found room in that world for musical references, commentary and even curation in the form of themed CDs for specific entries of the…

Le Galaxie Le Club You know the whole, 'If you could travel back in time and kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you?' conversational gambit that people occasionally break out? One imagines that if Le Galaxie were afforded the powers…