Taylor Swift

NO ENCORE returns from a successful Galway encounter only to be met with a wild news agenda that honestly feels like we decided to make the whole thing up at the last minute. There's also a report from Tandem Felix's triumphant return to…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the lowdown on what you might have missed. This week: Taylor Swift,…

Jack Antonoff is an industry guy. You know him even if you don’t think you do. Check under the hood of any pop album released in the last few years and there’s a decent chance that Antonoff’s fingerprints are in there somewhere. Antonoff…

Forget song of the summer. Who cares about the summer? The song of the year has already been decided and the ballots have been closed since March. The race was won when this particular song somehow made the line “I don’t really care if you…

“I feel it in my fingers  I feel it in my toes  That scarlet is all around me  So I watch the morto grow  It's written on the wind  It's everywhere I go  So if you’re really scarlet  Come on and let it show.” It’s 2017 and it’s…

The NO ENCORE crew summon Daithi from the subs bench for a typically raucous episode that tackles ALL aspects of the past seven days or so in the music world. Were you at Electric Picnic 2017? Us neither, but we have a review... ACT…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week: Courtney Barnett, The…

Halloween comes early as resident spookologist and HeadStuff music editor Andrea Cleary makes her NO ENCORE return in the absence of one Craig Fitzpatrick. She joins Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan on a packed episode that features a lot of…

Picture the scene: It's 2015 and Drake is the undisputed king of rap. He's completely redefined what a rap star could be and is well into his phase of absolute pop superstardom. He has helped flame the careers of Kendrick Lamar, Future, The…

It’s difficult to listen to Taylor Swift diss tracks and not picture the star wringing her hands at just how clever she’s being. On 1989, songs like ‘Style’ and ‘Shake It Off’ hit the mark and toe the line of side-eyeing pop stars who broke…