Kanye West

Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift mid-speech at the 2009 VMA’s is one of the most iconic cultural moments of the 21st century thus far. This may appear to some as a complete over exaggeration yet there’s so much more to this…

At 2pm one Thursday afternoon Chris Kabs walked out of his job as a financial accountant and told his boss “Yo, I gotta go follow my dreams”. Since then he’s been spending every day writing, mixing and recording music in his studio in…

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; alt-J,…

Let’s begin by trying to suggest what an encounter is (and is not). An encounter can take the form of an unexpected liaison; a kind of spark to begin thinking. But an encounter, in the sense of what I mean here, is about an ‘affect,’ the…

With The Revisit up and running – and tickets for the live spectacular on March 2 now on sale – it’s all go for the NO ENCORE trio of late. But when the mics are on it’s business as usual as Dave, Colm and Craig discuss and dissect the…

Opening the doors for more vulnerability in hip-hop than almost any other record of the decade, Kanye West’s 2008 808s & Heartbreak has been cited as a key reason artists like Frank Ocean were able to find their audiences. It is an…

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…

WE'RE BACK. New year, new season, new music, same old NO ENCORE fun and games. Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan are joined in-studio by State Magazine Reviews Editor Zara Hedderman for an hour-or-thereabouts of music-related chat including…

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…

Yo Gotti White Friday (CM9)   Being quite unlikely to get a white Christmas in Memphis this year, Tennessee rapper Yo Gotti made sure that at very least a ‘White Friday’ was guaranteed when he dropped his festively titled - yet drug…