Muse

Man, it's a hot one as NO ENCORE turns up the heat in the studio to run the rule over the new Muse album, the demise of The Strypes and Steve McQueen's lauded heist thriller Widows. Elsewhere, the boys welcome Proper Micro NV as he…

Having turned the ripe old of age of 100, NO ENCORE returns to tackle a fresh musical agenda once more. David 'Higgs' Higgins returns in his capacity as guest pundit and knowledgable American sports fan, as the boys use their combined…

Your glorious NO ENCORE trio convene to make sense of things in a post-Trump world. It's a fun episode though, honest. ACT ONE: Reaction to President Trump, Michael Stipe's present and past strange activities, Lorde pens a very…

Sahil Lodha is a London based photographer, originally from India. The human element is central to his practice in which he intimately documents his subjects, capturing the rawness of the relationship. Empathy, Vulnerability, Fame and…

“It was all very romantic,” my English teacher once explained, looking more flushed and excited than any 30-something woman in her right mind should ever allow a room full of teenage girls to see her. “He loved her for years and wrote a lot…

Better late than never, eh? You may recall our 10 Worst Songs of Halfway Through 2015, which saw The Prodigy emerge with the impressive feat of taking all 10 slots with the horrific, irredeemable, tone-deaf, hypocritical and just plain…

It’s an age-old narrative that’s probably existed almost as long as art itself has existed: an artist gets to a point in their career of such popularity or success that suddenly they’re in a position where they can ‘sell out’. When a band…

It’s easy to be sceptical about pop. You rarely hear people questioning Dave Grohl’s authenticity. The pains of anguish heard when Kanye West was announced as a Glastonbury headliner would barely be a whimper if the most ridiculous and…

Muse Drones There is a worrying lack of self-awareness about Muse’s seventh studio album, Drones. For a start, it has a cover that makes the "greased, naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck and a leash, and a man's…

Shucky ducky quack quack! It's YOUR best and worst tracks o' the week. Let's get to it. SUPER COOL COMPILATION OF THE WEEK GruffWuff - BarryGruff Intrepid blogger and connoisseur of damn fine music BarryGruff celebrates five years of his…