Chance The Rapper

There’s one thing you should know about Nadine O’Regan: never interrupt her when she’s halfway deep into a new 10-minute sonic odyssey from Tool. With Dave bound for Toronto, the beloved broadcaster and journalist joins NO ENCORE to…

With the studio once again approaching critical meltdown levels, NO ENCORE's Dave and Craig welcome the returning Dean Van Nguyen to the table. Dean has a new book out - Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah - and he explains why you…

New Music Weekly is your one-stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week:…

NO ENCORE is, in fact, talkin' U2 to you this week as the boys park the regular album review segment to... construct their very own U2 record! Elsewhere, there's all the usual noise with big news, Songs of the Week and Colm's personal Top…

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…

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…

Chance the Rapper Coloring Book It has been fascinating to watch the recent industry reactions to the changing way that people consume music. Instead of some artists only making their work available for purchase upon release, the new…

Adopted son of Norway Colm O’Regan has once more abandoned his NO ENCORE co-host duties and has indulged in a much-needed holiday so HeadStuff Music Editor Dave Hanratty and serious Newstalk business journalist Craig Fitzpatrick are joined…