otherkin

Gathering my notes to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything, a satisfied exhale fills the silence in the Library Bar of the Central Hotel. “The Guinness tastes good. It’s good to be home” says Conor Wynne, guitarist with Otherkin, the…

The RTE Choice Music Prize, that is. This week, your NO ENCORE wrecking crew boasts a roundtable of academic music-related excellence as it welcomes back Kieran McGuinness of Delorentos fame alongside your regular trio of Dave, Craig and…

As more and more content goes online, we face an unprecedented need for opinions, perspectives and hashtag hot takes. As such, for the purpose of any editors needing a quick article, I have prepared the following list of topics that I am…

Better late than never, eh? You may recall our 10 Worst Songs of Halfway Through 2015, which saw The Prodigy emerge with the impressive feat of taking all 10 slots with the horrific, irredeemable, tone-deaf, hypocritical and just plain…

With the tagline “All Music Starts Somewhere,” Unmade in Ireland is a new photography/journalism blog that sets out to document “Musicians who are giving their all but haven’t ‘made it’ yet.” Our team is fascinated by the lives and…