Nine Inch Nails

Some songs make an artist instantly recognisable. Such as hearing the rebirth and re-release of Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill'. We hear that song, and we know it is Kate, it has become a signature song for the artist, one which…

A two-piece made up of brothers Oscar and Thomas Flores, Mother Ghost have gone through a rough period in the last few years, and it shows on Somnámbulo. First there was the tragic passing of producer James Vehslage midway through…

Hello, my name is Chris, you may remember me from the music section. If not, well, that is a tremendous blow to my ego. Today, however, I'm reviewing a book. It's Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation of The Downward Spiral by…

Imagine this scenario, boys and girls. It's late at night and you're in an unfamiliar apartment. You take an elevator to get to the bottom floor and suddenly the lights go out. Then, to make things worse, the elevator breaks down, and…

This year sees a lot of anniversaries - forty years since Joy Division’s masterpiece, Unknown Pleasures, thirty years since The Stone Roses first record. It also marks four decades since a new sub-genre of music interrupted the airwaves.…

At the turn of the millennium, there seemed to be a collective consciousness among musicians, engendering a radical shift in the perspective of their work. It was a period of cutting-edge production – a pinnacle for IDM, indie rock, emo and…

What Greta Van Vleet is to Led Zeppelin, Jane in Space may be to Nine Inch Nails (NIN). Sure, both bands took a leaf (or five) from the books of their heroes, but it would be disingenuous to write them off as derivative and second-rate. In…

The studio is almost literally on fire as Dave and Daithi touch down following a European jaunt and just make the podcast in time to explore another wild week in music. NO ENCORE wouldn't be complete without Craig or Colm, either, so…

The boys are back in town as Dave returns to hosting duties and thus NO ENCORE is kinda-sorta almost complete again. On the agenda this week; the new Snow Patrol album, a ton of music news and new songs, and a downright strange…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’. This playlist is dedicated to one of the most visceral swear words in the English language (rhymes with duck, definitions range from ‘drat’ to ‘copulate’). Below…