Music Features

Let's say you want to make a breakout record, look no further than this album. It's hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Slipknot was released. If you're a Slipknot fan, you'll instantly recognise '742617000027', a frequent intro piece…

Versatile’s debasement of hip-hop should have firebombed the project a long time ago. Their writing is preposterous – a Gatling gun delivery of god-awful one-liners punctuated by moments of extreme racism and misogyny. These attempted jokes…

"I'm not Grace. That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever." — Jeff Buckley 25 years after the release of Grace it remains a modern…

2019 marks fifty years since Woodstock, the height of counterculture. While we celebrate the anniversary of that hippie dream, it's also a reminder of the cloud of darkness that settled over that very movement. A time when the hills of Los…

Irish funkmeister Max Zaska is working hard to get the attention of American band Vulfpeck with the goal of recording a song together. He’s in the last week of a 28-day campaign that sees a new video released every day with a different…

The image of the angsty teen is ever-changing. Modern day teenagers can pride themselves on their wokeness and vintage clothes but, in reality, teenagehood remains largely the same. One thing that hasn’t changed is that feeling of “For the…

Throughout the years, Miley Cyrus has been an undeniable presence in pop culture. Starting out as one of the key members of the Disney channel troop, we all watched in anticipation. What was she going to do next? Follow the likes of Britney…

Ballinlough Castle is, by now, a second home for many Irish music lovers. With Body & Soul consistently presenting a stellar card. Always full of the strongest Irish acts of the day, with more left-field headliners from Germany’s…

As we near the halfway mark of 2019, the HeadStuff music writers have picked out 9 of the best albums of the year so far. From Bridie to Billie, scroll down to read about our personal favourites. Grim Town - SOAK Is this the coolest record…

"Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever." - Ian Curtis In June 1979, Joy Division made a monumental declaration of post-punk beauty. It came in the form of their first LP, and…