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I was fifteen when I first became aware of Leonard Cohen. He’d always been there really – a part of my father’s holy trinity alongside Dylan and Springsteen – but it was only then that I could finally put a face and identity to the deep…

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…

I think the first time I fully became aware of Unsound was in 2013, when a total ban on photography meant reviews such as this one were accompanied by artists' interpretations of performers. In the years that followed I went on holiday to…

Once upon a midnight dreary, Colm O'Regan returned from holidays to join Dave Hanratty and ethnomusicologist extraordinaire Andrea Cleary on the spookiest NO ENCORE yet. There's terrifying tales aplenty in the world of music news, some…

Fresh from headlining The Workman's Club in typical raucous fashion as part of this year's LINGO Festival, the one and only Sage Francis dropped by NO ENCORE HQ for a lengthy chat with Dave and the oft-referenced, rarely heard (for good…

It’s Holy Fuck by name and by nature this week on a feature-length episode as NO ENCORE chats to Brian Borcherdt of the profanely-monikered Toronto electronica outfit mere moments before a very raucous indeed Dublin headliner. With Colm…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. To celebrate the release of Bantum's sterling second record Move - out today~! -…

You know, it only dawned on me this morning as I was walking to work that if you stroll up Camden Street in Dublin and happen to glance in the right doorway, there's a painting hanging in the entrance to a restaurant that looks an awful lot…

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…

That's the truth. It's a feisty episode this week as Craig reveals all about his feud with the drummer from The Blizzards, while Colm opens up about recent rucks with Jedward and Bastille. Elsewhere, Dave is relatively docile for once while…