Hot Press Magazine

26/07/2024

Check out our favourite Irish releases from the week below!
https://www.hotpress.com/music/new-irish-songs-to-hear-this-week-169-23041457

Ft. Rejjie Snow, Dana Williams, SHY, Lorraine Nash, Obskür, Tomike, JAZZY, Sonny Fodera, D.O.D, Fin Furey, Orla Gartland, Screaming Orphans, The Awning, Luke Clerkin, Under Starling, Bren Berry, Gonzo Fever, Charlie Hanlon, Four Faces, InBetween Honey, PostLast, Sean Anthony, Anemoia, Meljoann, Dunny, K3:lu, Lorcan O’Rourke, The Kyd G, Ewan McVicar, Youngiz, Podge Lane, Edel Meade

26/07/2024

Blur release trailer for Blur: Live At Wembley Stadium film

The accompanying live album is out today.

26/07/2024

The Mary Stokes Band working on new album ahead of August gigs

The artist will play two free gigs before the upcoming autumn release of their album.

26/07/2024

Blindboy Boatclub [of Rubberbandits], KNEECAP and Paul Murray are among those nominated for the inaugural Sky Arts Awards

Limerick satirist, musician, podcaster and author Blindboy Boatclub, Irish language rap trio KNEECAP and Dublin novelist Paul Murray have each bagged nominat...

26/07/2024

To mark the first anniversary of Sinéad O'Connor's death, Screaming Orphans – who toured with the Irish music icon in the '90s – have shared a powerful cover of 'John I Love You', featuring Sinéad's longtime collaborator John Reynolds

Listen to the powerful rendition of Sinéad's 1994 song below

26/07/2024

Irish author Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize

The author will receive a cash prize of £5000.

26/07/2024

Album Review: Blur - Live at Wembley Stadium

"A fine record of a band at the peak of their powers..."

Raucous 2023 homecoming in front of 150,000 fans. 8/10

26/07/2024

Following the release of her lauded album Deeper Well back in March, Kacey Musgraves has returned with a new track, 'Irish Goodbye' – alongside news of an upcoming expanded version of the LP

The multi-Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter played two nights at the 3Olympia Theatre earlier this year

26/07/2024

One year ago today, we lost one of our ultimate musical icons – as news broke of the death of Sinéad O'Connor, aged 56.

To mark her anniversary, we’re revisiting Hot Press editor Niall Stokes' personal reflections on Sinead's unique impact and legacy:

https://www.hotpress.com/music/sinead-oconnor-remembering-one-of-our-ultimate-musical-icons-on-the-first-anniversary-of-her-death-23041409

25/07/2024

Netflix has revealed the cast for the upcoming series, 'House of Guinness'

The show follows the 4 children of Sir Benjamin Guinness in the aftermath of his death

25/07/2024

U2 to release ZOO TV – Live In Dublin 1993 EP

The record will come out on August 30 via Island Records and Universal Music Recordings.

25/07/2024

Sabrina Carpenter has announced an second date in Dublin’s 3 Arena on March 4, 2025.

Tickets for both of the singer's show will go on sale this Friday at 10am.

25/07/2024

The Dublin R**e Crisis Centre has “strongly welcomed” the thirty years of consecutive sentences handed to Raymond Shorten today.

Shorten was found guilty at the Central Criminal Court last month.

25/07/2024

THISISPOPBABY announces new show 0800 CUPID

It will debut as part of Dublin Theatre Festival from September 28 to October 5.

25/07/2024

Electric Picnic has announced the lineup for this year's comedy arena

30 comedians are set to perform over the weekend

25/07/2024

Here's everything you need to know ahead of LYRA's sold out Ballykeeffe Amphitheatre shows this weekend

The singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist is billed to take on the open-air Italian inspired theatre this weekend.

25/07/2024

Mick Fleetwood pays tribute to “musical father” John Mayall

“John Mayall was a guiding light to so many of us young English players,” Fleetwood writes.

25/07/2024

The Friends star said she could not believe the comments came from a potential Vice President

25/07/2024

CMAT's Crazymad, For Me has been nominated for the 2024 Mercury Prize.
The Dublin singer's sophomore LP has been shortlisted alongside the likes of Charli XCX's viral hit BRAT and The Last Dinner Party's debut Prelude to Ecstasy .

Check out the full shortlist of nominees below.

25/07/2024

35 years ago, Beastie Boys released their landmark second album, Paul's Boutique – once described as "the Pet Sounds of hip-hop"

To mark its anniversary, we're looking back at a classic Hot Press interview with the group...

On this day in 1989, Beastie Boys released their landmark second album Paul's Boutique. The sample-heavy project was considered a commercial failure upon its...

25/07/2024

Jane’s Addiction share new single ‘Imminent Redemption’ reuniting core four members

The release marks the band’s first material with their original lineup in 34 years.

25/07/2024

Cher announces first instalment of memoir out this November

Part 1 will focus on the Goddess of Pop's early life.

24/07/2024

Off Topic to host a scratch night and costume party at the Racket Space this Friday

With a lineup of drag artists, poets, lip syncers and original music, the event’s theme is “MASQUERADE: The Faces We Wear.”

24/07/2024

Minister for Media Catherine Martin has announced €725 million worth of funding to RTÉ over the next three years, as part of its multi-annual funding plan.

The plan was announced at a press conference on Wednesday.

24/07/2024

CD and Triple-Vinyl sets of Rory Gallagher's BBC recordings announced for release

The CDs, vinyl and DVDs will be released on October 11.

24/07/2024

Watch the teaser trailer for the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown – featuring Timothée Chalamet singing 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'

Watch the teaser trailer for A Complete Unknown – featuring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger – below

24/07/2024

Alt rock legends PIXIES have announced their newest album, The Night the Zombies Came, out October 25, 2024 via BMG. Accompanying the news is the release of their latest single ‘Chicken’.

Check out the lyric video to the single 'Chicken' below.

24/07/2024

Flip-Cover Interview: Director Lee Isaac Chung, and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell, discuss one of the summer’s most hotly anticipated blockbusters, the rip-roaring thriller Twisters

Director Lee Isaac Chung, and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell, discuss one of the summer’s most hotly anticipated blockbusters, the rip-roaring thr...

24/07/2024

MUBI have announced that the Barry Keoghan-starring Bird will be hitting cinemas in the UK and Ireland on November 8, 2024.

Check out some stills from the picture below.

24/07/2024

Cherry Glazerr: "I was in a bad, toxic relationship, for both parties. This album deals a lot with me trying to find my voice again"

Now firmly in charge of their own rock ‘n’ roll destiny, Clem Creevy and her Cherry Glazerr bandmates have struck shoegaze-y gold with their I Don’t ...