Pavement

It's been whirlwind few years for Beatrice Laus. The Filipino-born British songwriter has gone from quietly crafting her very literal brand of bedroom pop/rock—sharing it among friends and social media—to supporting tours with The 1975 and…

Engine Summer are a Chicagoan indie rock trio, sharing lead vocal and song writing duties. After meeting in high school and forming several garage bands together over the years, it took until 2016 for Engine Summer to forge their own brand…

With their Workmans Club exploits done and dusted (until December’s annual quiz, that is), the fearless foursome are back in NO ENCORE Towers for another jaunt through planet music. There’s UFOs, killer dolls and even an interview with…

Dork rock is a thing, and it’s older than you might believe. Weezer is often cited as the kings of the dork for their anti-macho, angsty-yet-poppy-as-can-be approach, and the fashion choices certainly help push the notion. For Oneonta, NY…

I caught Silverbacks upstairs in Whelan's for a midnight gig one Wednesday when I really should have gone home to bed. I had heard good things. Comparisons to Pavement, Television, Parquet Courts, Talking Heads and more piqued my interests.…

Happy Twin Peaks day, everyone! Er, that is if you're listening to this on the Monday. If not, fear not, for the NO ENCORE wrecking crew kick this edition off with some thoughts on the cult phenomenon. Talk soon moves to the sad passing of…

If you consider yourself a music fan at all and spent any time on the Twittersphere last month, you’d have been hard pressed to have avoided the social media “fallout” that followed Johnny Borrell’s quite funny Noisey interview in which the…

1995 was probably not the best of years for Steven Malkmus After the critical lauding of the previous year’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and the minimal mainstream presence that the album afforded to the band, the pavement frontman was,…

Farse – Boxing Clever (2003) This might be too familiar territory to me. I know well what Ska Revival sounds like. Saying that, I’d never even heard of Farse until they showed up in a DJ set list by Hip-Hop and Spoken Word artist…