James Blake

The music of David Balfe may draw on a range of identifiable influences—the house-tinted EDM of Jamie xx, James Blake's conscious electro R&B, the post dubstep of Mount Kimbie, and The Streets' gritty UK garage beats are all notable…

Welcome to The Rotation, a roundup of the week’s key moments in music and why you should listen. Read Volume 2 below, or scroll to the bottom for playlists on Spotify and Apple Music. Despite all that has happened this year, music…

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…

Sri Lanka’s loss is podcasting’s gain as Daithi makes his glorious return to NO ENCORE. Elsewhere in a week of shake-ups, Dave gets his hosting privileges revoked. But who is this mysterious “Michael Encore” getting Craig’s name wrong?…

New Music Weekly is your one-stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week:…

In video games, we only have three senses. You can intake the game most directly using your sight. You see the cinematics, you glance at the HUD and gauge your health and mana, and generally learn how to react to the games mechanics.…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week:…

We Cut Corners The Cadences of Others A music year like 2016 doesn’t come along all that often. Globally, we have seen some of the best releases of the decade seize the public consciousness, experiment and divide critical opinion.…

Good news! Your core NO ENCORE trio of Dave Hanratty, Colm O'Regan and Craig Fitzpatrick are back together as one solid, wildly charismatic and opinionated unit. On the agenda in a busy hour; movies, TV shows, comedians but mostly…

As with last week's collection of the very finest songs from January - June 2016, the following albums from the same time period* that you really should wrap your ears around if you haven't yet come from the HeadStuff Music contributors'…