Kendrick Lamar

That's a reference to both a film starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter and the NO ENCORE featured album review this week which, incidentally, kinda-sorta divides the room as Dave, Colm and Craig reconvene to make sense of all the…

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,…

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; Drake,…

Dave went to see Canadian rock 'legends' Nickelback in concert and lived to tell the tale, and tell it he does as NO ENCORE turns 30. Dave and Craig are joined this time out by the returning Ruairi Lynch aka ace producer Bantum, who…

Significantly more hard-hitting than CM Punk in the octagon, it's NO ENCORE 24~! Dave, Colm and Craig are back for more music-related chat as Michael Pope of Le Galaxie fame drops by for co-hosting duties. It's a packed show with the…

Vince Staples Prima Donna Second album syndrome must really weigh heavy on the minds of many artists who release stellar debuts, but perhaps more so for those in the hip hop world. Young rappers who burst onto the scene with a…

As with last week's collection of the very finest songs from January - June 2016, the following albums from the same time period* that you really should wrap your ears around if you haven't yet come from the HeadStuff Music contributors'…

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…

Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. Kendrick Lamar’s latest release came about from what seems to be a particularly bizarre set of circumstances. LeBron James – speaking for fans everywhere – took to Twitter in late February to bemoan…

As most of us pessimistically predicted, it was Taylor Swift’s 'Bad Blood' that took home the Grammy Award for Best Music Video last week. One accepts the inevitability of the award academies such as the National Academy of Recording Arts…