The Alternative Careers In Music Seminar is on deck for the RDS in mid-October, featuring everything the upwardly-mobile music obsessive ever wanted to know...

Like what you see in Hot Press? Ace HP snapper Roger Woolman's set up his own website, so you can check out the finest in pop photography - and buy stuff for...

Park it here for the next phase in the Garage gig series - your source for new Irish noise... or, if you're a musician, possibly your source for a cool 12...

Songwriting legend and celebrity tippler Shane MacGowan to DJ at the next Death Disco on September 6th

Stuart Clark is vindicated as panellist Larry Mullen Jr nominates Andrew WK, among others, for US music award The Shortlist Music Project

The Mean Fiddler Organisation, in the next step of their euro-market expansion plan, stump up for one-quarter of Germany's massive Bizarre festival

The Butterflies Of Love, usually found being favourably likened to Galaxie 500 and Pavement, to play Irish tour in September

Trapeze artists, fire and light shows and a lineup made in heaven: Godskitchen are bringing the mother of all dance events to The Point in October

Earplugs at the ready, we're told, and you'd best believe it as Roadrunner Records' Roadrage tour comes to the Temple Bar Music Centre

We have BBC Radio 2 to thank for music series Live In Belfast, featuring Mundy, The Amazing Pilots, James Yorkston, Kidd Dynamo and more

A new era begins for Irish record distribution as showband svengali Mick Clerkin, Noel Cusack of Chart Records, and RMG's Peter Kenny join forces to form RMG...

Quintuple newgrass/ bluegrass/ progressive country headliner at Whelans in September. Yee-haw, as the man said

Dublin's Vicar Street venue, widely held to rank among the finest in Europe, to undergo major renovation and expansion

Rumours of the death of Tower Records Ireland - circulating ten to the dozen in the capital this week - have been greatly exaggerated. "Our operation in...

New label Lamp Recordings, brainchild of No Disco producer Rory Cobbe, switches on with a Lobby gig and a clutch of autumn releases

Jason Falkner (ex-Jellyfish; Air collaborator) to play Sugar Club

Enter to win tickets to see A Bout de souffle and The Commitments at Dublin's Meetinghouse Square this weekend

Ronan Keating, Lulu and Sam Mumba confirmed for free pop festival, courtesy of very generous mobile phone floggers O2, this August in the Phoenix Park

The Moviehouse’s regular screengazers choose 25 essential celluloid classics from a quarter century of world cinema

Massive shindig planned for Dublin's Temple Bar Music Centre, to raise money to replace the recently-nicked transmitter of maverick pirate station XFM

Introducing the inaugural Lost In Leitrim, Ireland's brand-newest dance festival

The worldwide magazine "plague" of recent months - which took out Melody Maker, Select and countless American mags - finally reaches Ireland, as two...

New Belfast community station North Visions Radio is set to give Northern music lovers, among other things, "pretentious indie songs with no tune that go...

Free O2 gig lineup confirmed - and everyone from David Kitt and Mundy to Six and Reel will be there

Juliet Turner and others to star in Dublin production of The Vagina Monologues

MTV's brill R'n'B/hip hop party The LIck featuring Trevor Nelson heads to the brand-revamped Tivoli in July

On the eve of Election '02, a collection of some of the Hot Press archive's most significant political interviews - with those people who went on to lead...