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With just over a week until NO ENCORE gets its live show on at The Workmans Club – grab your tickets here if you haven’t done so yet – the fab four are in fine fettle for another run through the burning issues of the week. From…

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…

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…

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…

Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Universal/Republic When Ariana Grande presented Saturday Night Live in March, she dedicated part of her opening monologue to a fun, jazzy number entitled ‘What Will My Scandal Be?’. Hazards that have…

YEEZY SEASON continues as hip hop knowledge machine Dean Van Nguyen reappraises the oft-maligned but really very good Graduation. Don those shutter shades and dive in...  Graduation (2007) Curtis Jackson wept. How the burly-voiced…