2016

A debate that raged into the first week of 2017, so it better be a solid list, right? It is. 10 | Kanye West - 'Famous' Goddamn. It all got a bit out of hand, didn't it? Whatever side of 2016's biggest pop culture war you landed…

What do Forrest Gump, Jiffy peanut butter, and the Looney Tunes all have in common? They’re all phenomena associated with a conspiracy theory that has made its way into brightly lit and well-managed YouTube channels, rather than coming from…

I won’t caveat this list with the usual ‘2016 was terrible’, we all know it was. Check out the 10 Worst Songs of the Year, for instance. Instead, we might choose to focus on something positive - this year has been one of the best for…

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…

This year, a lot of shit happened. None of it was good. About one good thing happened on Twitter all year and that was Pokemon GO, and that wasn't even that good because the app kept crashing and nobody even plays it anymore. Pokemon GO did…

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…

As with last week's collection of the very finest songs from January - June 2016, the following albums from the same time period* that you really should wrap your ears around if you haven't yet come from the HeadStuff Music contributors'…

“You seen these guys live before?” “Nope.” “Angry.” So goes the exchange between my NO ENCORE partner in crime Colm O’Regan and my good self as Young Fathers take to the Original Stage, shortly after proven festival openers the…