In the new issue – Celebrating Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour with a special Hot Press cover

As Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour is unleashed onto the masses via Disney+, we’re celebrating with a spectacular new cover, starring the biggest pop icon on the planet – out now!

In a special deep dive, Paul Nolan looks at how the billion-grossing Eras – now the biggest tour of all time – became a bona fide cultural phenomenon. It's a remarkable saga encompassing major controversies, sporting history, Senate hearings, geopolitical feuds – and, of course, some all-time classic music…

Whether you’re a dyed-in-the-wool Swiftie, or simply want the low-down on Taylor's path to world domination, this is the issue for you!

Elsewhere in this gripping new issue, you can look forward to a star-studded selection of interviews – including:

As they prepare to storm the charts again with their Audio Vertigo album, Elbow's Guy Garvey and Mark Potter talk to Stuart Clark about Foo Fighters, Cillian Murphy, Paul McCartney, Cuban odysseys and studio in-jokes...

Elbow. Credit: Athena Caramitsos

Super-producer Jack Antonoff talks to Lucy O'Toole about his new Bleachers album, learning to live "outside the lens of grief", and his love for Sinead O'Connor and Shane MacGowan.

Rising pop star Dylan on getting the nod of approval from Louis Tomlinson, loving Taylor Swift and being influenced by Queen.

Following the release of her new EP, an object of desire, Tallaght-raised artist SPIDER talks Catholic upbringings, leaving Ireland, and her hopes for a day when Black women making alternative music isn’t an exception to the norm.

SPIDER

To celebrate their 20th anniversary, HamsandwicH are releasing The Live Album, which contains 18 fan favourites recorded at the Olympia Theatre. The band tell Will Russell about two decades spent traversing the Irish music landscape.

Will Russell also recalls the visceral thrills of hearing The Pogues give Irish traditional music a punk kick up the ass on their debut Red Roses For Me album – and speaks to Richard Balls about his definitive biography on Shane MacGowan...

Green TD Neasa Hourigan talks to Jason O'Toole about drugs, the criminalising of sex workers, the RTÉ crisis, the possibility of coalition with Sinn Fein, and more.

Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen talk to Roe McDermott about their rip-roaring new comedy-thriller, Drive-Away Dolls.

Drive-Away Dolls. Credit: Wilson Webb

Award-winning author Colum McCann discusses his new book American Mother, which tells the story of Diane Foley, mother of journalist James Foley, who was murdered by Isis.

And that's just for starters! You'll find even more interview, reviews, previews and news in this gripping new issue...

So don’t miss out! Pick up your copy in shops now, or order online below: