hatever happened to Marika Hackman, the folksy ingenue who showcased a likable and non-threatening collection of folk songs with her … More

Taken in isolation, legends Sleater-Kinney’s new album The Center Won’t Hold packs just the type of gut punch you would expect from … More

Mercurial Dublin band The Pale return with their 13th studio album, and true to form, it has a little bit … More

After a five-year hiatus, Marina Diamandis has returned – minus the Diamonds, but laden with enough angst and self-doubt to … More

Oh, Morrissey. The Grand-master of Malcontentedness returns, and he nearly sounds happy. It was always going to be interesting to … More

or many artists, the live album has become something of a conciliatory gesture to fans, labels and critics; a consolidation … More

Hot Press Magazine, 01 May, 2019 oing your own thing can be a dangerous idea in the music business, but … More

Welsh quartet Catfish And The Bottlemen return with their third record The Balance. Curiously, there is very little to separate this … More

Sophomore syndrome – or ‘the difficult second album’ in music-speak – is a cliché that exists for a reason: bands … More

“I wish, I wish I was born a man,” Martha Wainwright sang in ‘Bloody Motherfuckin’ Asshole’. So she could be … More