The Strokes

NO ENCORE is going live at Whelan's on September 28 with performances from Overhead, The Albatross, Daithí and Elaine Mai set to BLOW THE ROOF OFF and such. You should totally come to the show. Tickets available on Ticketmaster and usual…

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…

WE'RE BACK. New year, new season, new music, same old NO ENCORE fun and games. Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan are joined in-studio by State Magazine Reviews Editor Zara Hedderman for an hour-or-thereabouts of music-related chat including…

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…

We're just past the halfway point of the year (only five months till Christmas, how grim is that?) and it's been so front-loaded that there's arguably been too much good music released between January and June (which is the timeframe where…

The Strokes Future Present Past Did Shia LaBeouf pulling on a Strokes t-shirt in Transformers really mark the point of no return? The former Disney child star turned vaguely amusing surrealist already has much to answer for, so it might…

DOUBLE FIGURES, AWWWWWWH YEAH. Ahem. To celebrate hitting the big One-Zero, your NO ENCORE boys - Dave Hanratty, Craig Fitzpatrick and Colm O'Regan - welcome Kieran McGuinness from the excellent Delorentos on board as a special guest…

In 1997 and 2000, Radiohead gave us back-to-back releases that would immeasurably change the direction of alternative rock. If the first, OK Computer, redefined the sound of the guitar-driven band, then the follow-up would completely…

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1970) My relationship with Black Sabbath can be summed up as such; I know an incredible amount about them despite never listening to their debut album. A consequence of being friends with mainly metal…

A Decade of Musical Semi-Consciousness: The Best Songs of the Noughties. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If I could go back to the eleven year old standing in the CD shop, with about three old Irish pounds to spend, I’d choose…