Dean Van Nguyen

Versatile’s debasement of hip-hop should have firebombed the project a long time ago. Their writing is preposterous – a Gatling gun delivery of god-awful one-liners punctuated by moments of extreme racism and misogyny. These attempted jokes…

With the studio once again approaching critical meltdown levels, NO ENCORE's Dave and Craig welcome the returning Dean Van Nguyen to the table. Dean has a new book out - Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah - and he explains why you…

The question: who gets to call themselves Irish? The disgrace: not everyone born on this island. As our British cousins race to apply for their Irish passports to unlock the benefits of EU citizenship that their body politic seems hell-bent…

On this week's episode of The Suss, Steph and Glenn tackle the issues of privilege and prejudice in Irish society. Glenn sits down with Eileen Flynn, a proud member of the Irish Travelling community, for a chat about the systemic lack of…

Promoting the movie Spring Breakers, Selena Gomez struck down the same question over and over again like a zombie hunter swathing away swarms of the undead. The query came in many forms but the gist was this: what would the Disney Channel…

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…

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…

This planet wasn’t set for Betty Davis. It wasn’t ready in 1969, when she walked into Columbia’s 52nd Street Studios, New York with husband Miles to lay the funky foundations of both their future work. Maybe it’s never been ready. Connect…

Adopted son of Norway Colm O’Regan has once more abandoned his NO ENCORE co-host duties and has indulged in a much-needed holiday so HeadStuff Music Editor Dave Hanratty and serious Newstalk business journalist Craig Fitzpatrick are joined…

Prince, the greatest musical artist to ever walk this planet, has passed away. The temptation when we lose such impossibly outstanding humans is to convince ourselves of their immortality. “He can never truly die.” “He’s one of those people…