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Bon Iver  22, A Million In an interview from 2012, at the height of Bon Iver’s promotional tour for their sophomore album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Justin Vernon likened his highly successful band to a faucet. He proclaimed, to…

Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam I Had A Dream That You Were Mine With the blow of multi-instrumentalist and producer Rostam Batmanglij's departure from Vampire Weekend still fresh comes his collaboration with former Walkmen frontman…

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…

Frank Ocean Blonde About three years ago I went to see Frank Ocean in Dublin’s Phoenix Park and in truth, it was a largely disappointing gig. Everyone was there to see The Killers, who were headlining, and Frank played a quite subdued,…

Angel Olsen My Woman Midway through Angel Olsen’s fourth release as a solo artist comes a plea - no…a demand, and an invocation. “Oh, let the light shine in”, she sings, as the drum rolls abide in the mid-section of ‘Not Gonna Kill You’…

My love of Britney Spears runs deep. It’s a love so strong that it reminds me that I have the ability to actually love at all. People are often bewildered by my love. She is seen as an act who is past it or irrelevant when the fact is that…

It's about that time. Yep, Frank Ocean finally dropped the album. Two albums, technically. As such, it's a full NO ENCORE roundtable of reflection this week as Dave, Colm and Craig welcome back Dave Higgins and Dean Van Nguyen in order…

Lisa Hannigan At Swim I met Lisa Hannigan once, in the literary tent at Electric Picnic. I’m a fan so I asked her how the new album was coming along. Her eyes bulged slightly and she took a sharp intake of breath before saying something…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where we pick a theme and, er, make a playlist around it. Sometimes you might get an essay, other times you might get just one sentence as a precursor to the laser-focused audio delights that await below. Take it…