music interview

Neil Dexter is positioned to be one of the most intriguing prospects in the Irish music scene in 2022. Kickstarting his solo career in 2021 with the release of his single 'Loving You', the Dublin-based multi-instrumentalist and…

It is highly unlikely that you'll heard another album quite like The Hedge Maze and The Spade in 2022. The sophomore record from Gavin Murray AKA Trick Mist carries all of the surreal sampling techniques that brought the songwriter…

Mayo native Tracy Gallagher has been bouncing around the Irish music scene for a few years now. Touring the country in her van—affectionately named 'Mags'—Tracy cultivated the sounds and the songs that comprise her first studio EP. Ahead of…

Since releasing Branches Untangle back in 2006, Wallis Bird has established herself as a vital voice in Irish music. On top of this, she's a raucous live act. Now, with five albums and a big pile of awards behind her, she feels it's time to…

As the music industry seeks to skirt around digital blockades, some intriguing innovations are bubbling under the surface. One such innovation is the use of artificial intelligence in the industry. Whether the brainchildren of big tech…

Max Zaska, under the band name of Zaska, is releasing one of the most exciting Irish albums in recent years. It Takes A Village delivers a funk-filled look into our country’s soulful music scene as Max’s creations are brought to life with…

I caught Silverbacks upstairs in Whelan's for a midnight gig one Wednesday when I really should have gone home to bed. I had heard good things. Comparisons to Pavement, Television, Parquet Courts, Talking Heads and more piqued my interests.…

Dublin-based electronic musician Sinéad Bermingham, aka Animal Party, sits down with HeadStuff’s music editor Andrea Cleary to discuss her writing process, the Toronto and Dublin music scenes, and making weird music with harps. Animal Party…

At 2pm one Thursday afternoon Chris Kabs walked out of his job as a financial accountant and told his boss “Yo, I gotta go follow my dreams”. Since then he’s been spending every day writing, mixing and recording music in his studio in…