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Welcome to the inaugural episode of NO ENCORE: THE REVISIT, in which we go back in time to a chosen year in Irish music and attempt to determine the gold standard of the era. Join regular NO ENCORE hosts Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan on…

The RTE Choice Music Prize, that is. This week, your NO ENCORE wrecking crew boasts a roundtable of academic music-related excellence as it welcomes back Kieran McGuinness of Delorentos fame alongside your regular trio of Dave, Craig and…

WE'RE BACK. New year, new season, new music, same old NO ENCORE fun and games. Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan are joined in-studio by State Magazine Reviews Editor Zara Hedderman for an hour-or-thereabouts of music-related chat including…

2016 is going to go down in the books as a pretty horrible and grim year and yes, while lots of bad things did indeed occur and a great many beloved cultural heroes bowed out, good stuff happened too. No, really. Google it. There were good…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. It's the most wonderful time of the year....End of the Year Lists time. Here we have…

No detailed breakdown again this week for it's special countdown time once more as Dave, Craig and Colm join forces to bring you their top 20 albums of 2016. It's the final episode of NO ENCORE until we return in January so let's do this!…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. It's End Of Year List time so here's the NO ENCORE podcast boys' Top 20 Songs of…

There will be no breakdown this week but rather a very special countdown as Dave, Craig and Colm join forces to bring you their top 20 songs of the year. There's big names, some surprise entries and a quite ridiculous overuse of one…

With a thud, unfortunately. In the final 'regular' episode of the year - LISTMANIA is right around the corner, folks! - the NO ENCORE boys tackle Abel Tesfaye's latest effort for global pop domination - Starboy. Before that, there's much to…

The NO ENCORE boys are back - not in town, for they already reside there - with all the happenings in the music world, with everything from Kanye West's hospitalisation to We Cut Corners' recent headline show in Temple Bar to the return of…