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Welcome to The Rotation, a roundup of the week’s key moments in music and why you should listen. Read Volume 9 below, or scroll to the end for playlists on Spotify and Apple Music. Previous instalments available here. As live music…

That's a reference to both a film starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter and the NO ENCORE featured album review this week which, incidentally, kinda-sorta divides the room as Dave, Colm and Craig reconvene to make sense of all the…

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…

We're just past the halfway point of the year (only five months till Christmas, how grim is that?) and it's been so front-loaded that there's arguably been too much good music released between January and June (which is the timeframe where…

HeadStuff Music Editor Dave Hanratty, Hot Press word-man Colm O’Regan and Newstalk business dude Craig Fitzpatrick are back with another exciting edition of the NO ENCORE podcast. As Rolling Stone pointed out*; "It's the best podcast there…

ZAYN Mind Of Mine In describing his new album, Mind of Mine, One Direction alumni Zayn Malik - aka ZAYN -  has cited a number of interesting artists as being influential on his first solo effort: Tupac Shakur, R Kelly, Prince…

See that there? That's a pun headline, the kind of thing Dave Hanratty, Craig Fitzpatrick and Colm O'Regan excel at, thanks to their time in Hot Press magazine. There will be no apology and there will be NO ENCORE. Following on from last…