Music

Post-punk as a term is both vague and misleading. It grew in tandem with the initial punk rock movement of the ‘70s, as opposed to being born out of it. It kept the DIY work ethic but thrived on sonic experimentation and a broader range of…

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…

Xi.me.na Borges, a Venezuelan/New York experimental artist, is an award-winning composer and performer. Melding old and new via the use of digital and analogue tech, she also blends music from different eras. The result is a body of work…

Healing Spells, the solo venture of Japanese electronic producer Past Lives, is something of an experimental detour, garnering comparisons to OneOhTrix Point Never and Gold Panda. Vestiges is the culmination of musical and physical…

The Make Shift E.P. by Beg Friend opens with the standout track, 'Slow Burner', starting with a series of beeps before the sample kicks in. The sample is a recording of English actor Laon Maybanke, prominent in the 60s, reading from T.S.…

On March 21, 2019, Irish indie rock band Little Green Cars announced that they were disbanding. As per the band’s own statement, it was amicable: “no terrible calamity, no heartless betrayal and no punches thrown”. The band’s albums—2013’s…

Today I had the pleasure of listening to Spielbergs, a three-piece indie rock band from Oslo, Norway. It would appear they have quite the buzz around them, garnering acclaim from many publications. Running All The Way Home contains five, or…