Father John Misty

What happens when the whole world suddenly becomes one of post-facts and suddenly your post-irony persona starts to lose its magic? That’s the question that Josh Tillman seems to be asking himself throughout his surreal short film Pure…

Your beloved NO ENCORE boys are back in the saddle, despite illness doing its utmost to drive them apart. ACT ONE: Dave details his still-not-quite-over-it viral infection before the lads get stuck into some important news with…

Packed, packed house this week in the NO ENCORE studio as film critic and American sports enthusiast Dave Higgins makes his grand return to the podcast and oft-referenced friend of the show Joshua Hughes comes in from the Toronto cold to…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where we pick a theme and, er, make a playlist around it. Sometimes you might get an essay, other times you might get just one sentence as a precursor to the laser-focused audio delights that await below. Take it…

Man down in the NO ENCORE studio this week as Craig gives everyone a free tick on the bingo/drinking game as Dave and Colm hold down the fort. Not to worry as they're joined by ethnomusicologist (yep) and HeadStuff contributor Andrea…

Yep, there’s no two ways about it – your NO ENCORE brothers in arms simply had to weigh in on the whole Kimye/Taylor situation, despite host Dave’s protestations to the contrary. You read that correctly; Dave didn’t want to talk about Kanye…

It's like banter alarm, geddit? No wait, come back. That's all the #lad nonsense we have for you, mainly because episode four of the NO ENCORE podcast finds HeadStuff Music Editor Dave Hanratty and Hot Press one-man wrecking crew Colm…

Joanna Newsom Divers If you’ve read anything about the post-modern provocateur that is Joanna Newsom you’ll probably know at least one thing; she’s polarising. Music writers love to emphasise the revolutionary fact that an artist could…