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IN THIS ISSUE...
Ahead of their upcoming Longitude performance in Marlay Park, we catch up with UK alt. rockers Vampire Weekend, who spill the beans on excellent new album, Modern Vampires Of The City.
Also in this issue - we talk to Alt-J about their Mercury-award winning debut, how they're dealing with fame, and what's next for the unassuming foursome.
We also catch up with Chvrches, Halves, Tribes - and shoot the breeze with Hollywood royalty: Kevin Spacey fills us in on his latest TV project, House Of Cards. Meanwhile, Donegal manager Jim McGuinness braces himself for the Hot Press Interview!
Over in Critical Mass, we review new albums from Jay-Z, Swords, Mayer Hawthorne, White Lies and live performances from Justin Timberlake, Mumford & Sons, and the Groove Festival.
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It's official – a new Bruce Springsteen album is on the way! Well,'new-ish'. Slated for January, High Hopes will see the New Jersey warhorse blending covers, unrecorded faves and sublime odds 'n' sods from across his career.
Interview: 12 Dec 2013
Bruce Springsteen has confirmed the January 10 release of High Hopes, his 18th studio album, which is a mix of covers, originals and tunes that have previously been played live but never recorded… until now!
News: 25 Nov 2013
Plus, a video of his cover of Suicide's 'Dream Baby Dream'.
News: 14 Oct 2013
It’s a tale of three cities as our Springsteen diarist Stuart Clark bookends Bruce’s triumphant Irish tour and renews acquaintances with his E Street Band lieutenant Steve Van Zandt, who explains why they’re in the form of their rock ‘n’ roll lives...
Report: 13 Aug 2013
A video has been released for The Suspects & Guests’ fabulous cover of ‘The River’, which will benefit the Bolger Brothers Tragedy Fund.
07 Aug 2013 - News
Hot Press is delighted to premiere the Suspects & Guests’ take on Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The River’, which has been recorded in support of the Bolger Brothers Tragedy Fund and will be available from iTunes tomorrow.
01 Aug 2013 - News
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, 28th July 2013
29 Jul 2013 - Gallery
One Direction fail to dislodge the Swedish DJ from top spot in the Irish singles chart...
26 Jul 2013 - News
Waterford’s Propeller Palms, Solar Taxi, Kodakid and The Unusual Suspects have joined forces under the Suspects & Guests banner to record a version of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The River’ with all proceeds going to The Bolger Brothers Tragedy Fund.
26 Jul 2013 - News
A limited number of seated tickets have been released for The Boss's Nowlan Park gigs this weekend...
25 Jul 2013 - News
As Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band get ready to invade Ireland again, Brandon Flowers, Clem Burke, Damien Dempsey, Donal Lunny, Noah & The Whale, The Handsome Family and Delorentos declare their love for The Boss...
24 Jul 2013 - Reports
Stuart Clark reports back from The Boss' first Irish summer show. Check out our photo gallery here...
17 Jul 2013 - News
“What a normal, straight ahead, fuckin’ legend of a dude! Forget about a genuine rock star, he’s also one of the most genuine human beings I’ve ever met."...
16 Jul 2013 - Interview
The newest member of the E Street Band speaks about filling his late uncle's boots..
05 Jul 2013 - News
The new issue of Hot Press is a Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band special containing everything you could possibly want to know about The Boss ahead of his sell-out Limerick, Cork, Belfast and Kilkenny shows.
04 Jul 2013 - News
Charitybuzz are offering you the chance to chinwag with The Boss in Cork this July.
09 May 2013 - News
More support acts have been announced for The Boss' Wrecking Ball Weekender...
23 Apr 2013 - News
The Boss will bring his Wrecking Ball Tour to Kilkenny's Nowlan Park this July...
31 Jan 2013 - News
The Boss is putting it together with a little help from his fans.
11 Dec 2012 - News
The Boss will play three shows next year...
28 Nov 2012 - News
For Irish acts who fancy playing the renowned industry shindig, here are the details...
01 Aug 2012 - News
The Boss occupies both the No. 1 and 2 slots this week...
27 Jul 2012 - News
Following his two sold out gigs in the RDS this week, The Boss claims the first two spots on the Irish album charts...
20 Jul 2012 - News
Check out our man Graham Keogh's gallery of images from last night's amazing show...
18 Jul 2012 - News
The Boss & co were in top form as they rocked the D4 venue on the first of their two nights
17 Jul 2012 - Gallery
The folk foursome joined The Boss onstage last night for a rendition of 'Hungry Heart'.
29 May 2012 - News
The Boss has held onto the top spot of the Irish chart.
23 Mar 2012 - News
Bruce and the gang have just unleashed what is their angriest and most politicised record yet, a scathing attack on the railroading of the American Dream by political and corporate fat cats. Stuart Clark journeys to Paris to meet The Boss who also waxes lyrical about Obama, Catholicism, Joe Strummer, Dylan, being a hopeless music fan and why it’ll take four people to replace Clarence Clemons
20 Mar 2012 - Interview
His SXSW keynote address will be broadcast this evening.
15 Mar 2012 - News
Highlights from The Boss's press conference...
20 Feb 2012 - Video
Starring: The Boss, Dave Grohl, Sleigh Bells and much much more...
17 Feb 2012 - News
Deputy Editor Stuart Clark jetted to France for a press call with Bruce.
16 Feb 2012 - News
The Boss will play a second night at the RDS.
01 Dec 2011 - News
Long lost treasures from the boss
01 Dec 2010 - REVIEW
You can listen to tracks from The Boss' 1978 album before its official re-release on November 16
02 Nov 2010 - News
The Boss will go one step further than other high-profile reissues in recent times, by selecting numerous outtakes and even re-recording passages.
01 Jul 2010 - News
Land Of Hope And Dreams is available now
12 Apr 2010 - News
Bruce Springsteen cancelled his concert early this week at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, after a member of the E-Street Band’s road crew was found dead in his hotel room at the InterContinental Hotel.
28 Oct 2009 - News
The United States is a unique nation with a singular sense of its place in history and in the world. Little wonder it’s produced so much great music
29 Jan 2009 - Reports
Springsteen's Irish love affair resumes in July, with a deluxe edition of Working On A Dream now available, and a Darkness On The Edge Of Town box-set in the works...
24 Jan 2009 - News
The Boss wows the crowds with the Pet Sounds of gigs.
11 Jun 2008 - REVIEW
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band were back in Dublin last night and, needless to say, Hot Press was there to catch all the action.
23 May 2008 - News
Two additional Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band dates have now been announced for Dublin next year.
28 Nov 2007 - News
As predicted several months ago by Hot Press, Bruce Springsteen is bringing the E Street Band back to Dublin.
22 Nov 2007 - News
The Boss is back, and boy is he pissed. Bruce Springsteen uses the language of classic American rock 'n' roll to address the disquiet and despair of the modern-day American nightmare. Hot Press bore witness to a cluster of exclusive warm-up shows in New York and New Jersey.
30 Oct 2007 - Reports
Bruce Springsteen is set to release a live CD/DVD this summer which was recorded over his three dates at The Point, Dublin last November.
04 Apr 2007 - News
You know you’ve been to a bloody good Bruce gig when he can omit ‘Born To Run’ or ‘Thunder Road’ and nobody notices. Most of these young whippersnapper acts regard touring as a PR chore. Bruce, on the other hand, treats his job like a vocation.
01 Dec 2006 - REVIEW
Following his triumphant show at the Point Theatre in May, Bruce Springsteen is returning to Ireland later this year.
28 Jun 2006 - News
Bruce and his army of musicians made like this night in Dublin was the night of their lives – and maybe it was.
19 May 2006 - REVIEW
Meet the new Boss - not the same as the old Boss! Or is he? When you think about it, this is quite possibly the least surprising album of Springsteen’s entire career. Despite his glory days as a rocker beyond compare circa Born To Run/Darkness On The Edge Of Town, he has always been a folk artist, in spirit if not in deed.
16 May 2006 - REVIEW
The Boss gets ready to play a few gigs in support of his upcoming album We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions.
05 Apr 2006 - News
Waaay back in '85, Hot Press adorned Bruce Springsteen on the front cover. And it's not been forgotten!
02 Dec 2005 - News
Of the dozen or so Springsteen shows I’ve witnessed over the years, this was without doubt the most memorable, and certainly the most emotionally intense of them all. Shorn of the formidable might of the E-Street Band, the man-they-still-call-The-Boss arguably had to work harder than ever. That he pulled it off so successfully in the acoustically-unfriendly environs of The Point was a testament not only to his talent and experience but to his willingness to experiment.
07 Jun 2005 - REVIEW
Bruce Springsteen is one of those performing artists who you should see at least once before you die, fan or not. At best, I consider myself to be merely a casual Springsteen follower, yet I felt like I was in safe hands from the moment he stepped onstage at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. and stood amidst the sumptuous drapery and candelabrum.
01 Jun 2005 - REVIEW
Maybe the best way to get a handle on Devils & Dust is by process of elimination. In other words, it’s not a big band extravaganza with sax and piano fanfares for the common man. It’s not Human Touch or Lucky Town, both of which suffered from pick-up pros trying to play E Street shuffles, and as any fool knows, the only ones who can do that are the original Jersey shower. Nor is it the bleak and beautiful lunar landscape of America under the Republican gun a la Nebraska. It’s not Tom Joad either, although it does share some of those album’s attributes, namely a writerly rigour with regard to research and character development, plus a slew of wetback protagonists inhabiting southerly borders both geographical and moral.
09 May 2005 - REVIEW
On the surface, the similarities between Cornershop and the Boss are few, but Springsteen too has been happy to retreat from the world he inhabited around ‘Born In The USA’. 'Devils & Dust' comes straight out of the ‘Nebraska’ /‘Ghost Of Tom Joad’ end of his work and is a towering record, the singer’s powerful talk of gods and devils underpinned by a stark musical background.
28 Apr 2005 - REVIEW
Fans of anthemic rock and/or men in 'workingman's' clothes will welcome the return of The Boss to our shores next month.
07 Apr 2005 - News
How Bruce Springsteen drew inspiration from, and in turn exerted an influence on, Irish rock’n’roll.
13 Jun 2003 - Interview
As predicted during the summer, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band fly in on May 31 2003 for an open-air headliner at the RDS, Dublin.
06 Nov 2002 - News
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