Jack White

The debut album is a statement of artistic creativity, intended to launch a musician's career proper. Not all hit the ground running, however. Even the most important bands in history don't always deliver great debuts. The Beatles debut…

A ridiculously stacked episode this week on NO ENCORE as the OG Three return to the fold. There's reviews of huge gigs, a great interview with Bantum and a genuinely insane foray into the world of music from a Hollywood superstar. Let's…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week:…

What can possibly be left to say about Ed Sheeran, 'Galway Girl' and its parent record? Plenty, as it turns out. With Colm off performing jury duty, Dave and Craig are joined by their former Hot Press colleague Celina Murphy to try and…

The doe-eyed Hozier (25) takes to the stage, clad all in black, and before he begins the chart-burning ‘Take Me To Church’, that he wrote himself, he peers out under his mane of luscious, beach hair to take in the crowd and smiles quietly…

We invited you to vote for your top 10 albums of 2014 and vote you did (thanks). The long-list was varied, as is the top 10, albeit with a distinctly Irish flavour towards the head of the leader board. There may be albums on this list that…

I might still be suffering from the affects of too-acute an excitement to write about this. But I feel like I had one of those experiences that they always try to make films about but fail to get the emotion across adequately. Jack White…