Bob Dylan

When we kicked off our Roundtable feature last year, we asked our trusty music writers to name the Best Albums Under 30 Minutes. Because, in our own words at the time, "sometimes it can be difficult to sit yourself down and pore over all…

Nearly ten years and now three albums into his career, Belfast-based musician Mark McCambridge has made quite the impression thus far under his Arborist alias. First came his breakout debut Home Burial in 2016, which was then followed by a…

Here at HeadStuff, our writers are forever consuming endless amounts of music on top of the stuff we already write about, and thinking about that music in all sorts of different ways so that our brains can compartmentalize the sheer volume…

War impacts art. We see this in movie adaptations, books, paintings and in this case music. As war currently rages in Europe, I turn my gaze back to a time when conflict left its mark on society and created a time capsule of spirited…

Some songs make an artist instantly recognisable. Such as hearing the rebirth and re-release of Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill'. We hear that song, and we know it is Kate, it has become a signature song for the artist, one which…

Ace music journo and our very own super sub Zara Hedderman joins a returning Craig Fitzpatrick for a NO ENCORE episode that’s big on breaking news… and big on Bob. ? ACT ONE: How Craig helplessly listened last week, unable to come to…

NO ENCORE returns with an absolutely packed episode for your weekend. Or weekday. It's up to you when you tune in, really. This week, we look at the recently published Gender Disparity Data Report, which asks serious questions of Irish…

In 1965 the prototypical "It Girl", Edie Sedgwick, attached herself to Andy Warhol and, at the same time, pop-art history. She is both the beauty and the tragedy of celebrity culture. The would-be model entered Warhol's Factory with a…

Nick Cave is a hard artist to pin down. He appears as much at home at the typewriter as the piano, as well as prowling about onstage throwing rock star postures. Cave is, at once, the renaissance man and the outcast rebel. He has cast his…

The name Robert Johnson is synonymous with blues music. His influence is cast across rock music, and almost every guitarist that sprung up in the Blues Explosion of the '60s vibrates with his technique. Guitarists like Jimmy Page, Eric…