Justin Bieber

Heard the one about Justin Bieber repeatedly asking a guy in a calm and measured fashion to please stop following and recording him on a Dublin street? It’s bloody hilarious, isn’t it? That Bieber, what a prick! He deserved it. How dare he…

Dark times in the NO ENCORE studio as Dave loses a tooth, Craig deals with a sudden tragedy and Colm... is in pretty good form by comparison, actually. Elsewhere it's a bright summer day as the boys tackle a pretty shoddy batch of new…

The NO ENCORE studio is a place of warm embrace this week as producer and beat-maker extraordinaire Toby Kaar reunites with old school chum Colm O'Regan. Also present in these most intimate confines are Dave Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick,…

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…

You know the way scary movies are infinitely more haunting, more terrifying, when we're looking at a real life scenario? The film is shot as a home video (think the Blair Witch Project or any Paranormal Activity movie), the characters are…

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…

Let’s not stand on ceremony. We all know why we’re here. It’s that wondrous time of year when we get our list on and celebrate the best and worst of the year. In this here scenario, we have the very best 25 tracks of 2015 as decided by…

2015 was, if nothing else, yet another year in which music was released. There were some very good albums and some very, not so good albums. With the excellent Currents, Tame Impala ditched guitars for synthesisers and ensured that the not…

Justin Bieber Purpose One of the greatest unsung (:D) talents of many popular musicians is the ability to be utterly dislikeable people in many ways behind the scenes, yet still make music that is both affecting and rings true. Nobody…

The doe-eyed Hozier (25) takes to the stage, clad all in black, and before he begins the chart-burning ‘Take Me To Church’, that he wrote himself, he peers out under his mane of luscious, beach hair to take in the crowd and smiles quietly…