Andrea Cleary

Yep, it's unlucky 13 for NO ENCORE's Dave Hanratty and David Higgins as the boys accept their fate and venture towards certain doom in the form of box office and critical bomb CATS. They get by with a little help from their friends, with…

Welcome back to part two of our roundup of the year. This part has a little taste, just a little mind you, of every episode from July to December. We hope it inspires you to go back and listen to some episodes that you missed during the…

Music writer and co-host of The Nialler9 Podcast Andrea Cleary joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the best little pig in the world, Babe. We talked about vegetarianism, feeling all the feelings, teaching moral lessons with animals, is Babe…

It's Irish album flashback time once again on NO ENCORE as Dave Hanratty and Kieran McGuinness step into 1988 alongside the lively panel of DJ, MC extraordinaire and all-round culture vulture Rick O'Shea, HeadStuff Music Editor Andrea…

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…

We Cut Corners The Cadences of Others A music year like 2016 doesn’t come along all that often. Globally, we have seen some of the best releases of the decade seize the public consciousness, experiment and divide critical opinion.…

"Like today I was feeding the receipt machine out and trying to scribble down some lyrics that popped into my head..." There’s this cliché about musicians, working in coffee shops, scrawling down lyrics and ideas any chance they get at…

Warpaint Heads Up 12 years after forming in Los Angeles, a short hiatus, and three albums, Warpaint offer Heads Up, a welcome return for the dream pop foursome. Fans of previous efforts such as the superb 2008 EP Exquisite Corpse and …

Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam I Had A Dream That You Were Mine With the blow of multi-instrumentalist and producer Rostam Batmanglij's departure from Vampire Weekend still fresh comes his collaboration with former Walkmen frontman…

65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe You have to hand it to 65daysofstatic, scoring music for an ‘infinite universe’ is no easy task, but it is one they have undertaken with vigorous intensity and commitment. The…