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Since the dawn of the age of podcasting, music podcasts have been among the major players and innovators in the form, offering a rare and entirely new look inside the music industry through artist interviews, song deconstructions, and…

Dublin Is Sound was just one of the many fantastic events being held across the country over the weekend to celebrate Record Store Day here in Ireland. An all-ages, alcohol free, midday gig in The Grand Social featuring some of this…

NO ENCORE returns as Dave, Daithí and Craig welcome Molly Sterling for a chat, provide further dispatches from the RTÉ Choice Music Prize, and muse on bathing etiquette. ? ACT ONE: NO POPCORN #002 incoming, but what band 'Hurt' Dave…

Cian Sweeney has recently struck out on his own from the workin' musician lifestyle with solo project 1000 Beasts. Mike McGrath-Bryan sits down and talks about working alone, collaborating, and the video for new single 'Lord (It's OK)'.…

Turn the clock back once more as NO ENCORE takes the temperature of the Irish music scene in 1985. It's a serious panel of experts this time out as Dave Hanratty and Kieran McGuinness are joined by Nadine O'Regan (Sunday Business Post,…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. Next up, scuzzy recessionary degenerate post-punk slacker rockers THAT SNAAKE of…

In 2003, I bought my first proper stereo system. It played CDs, had a twin-tape deck so I could record the pretend radio shows I spent hours on, a remote control and you could hook it up to a MiniDisc player. Two entire albums on a single…

"Whatever it is, Bitch Falcon have it." The spot-fucking-on verdict from The Irish Times' Una Mullally having observed the Dublin trio in action at this year's Electric Picnic spectacular. The most arresting and intriguing new voice in…