Hot Press is a fortnightly music and politics magazine based in
Dublin, Ireland founded in June 1977. The magazine has been edited since its inception by
Niall Stokes. According to the
Audit Bureau of Circulations, it had a
circulation of 17,084 during 2014. It has won a number of PPAI Awards, including Website of the Year (2003 & 2007), Magazine of the Year (2002) and Publisher of the Year (2004) and has been cited by
independent sources such as
The Irish Times and the British-based
NME.
Rory Gallagher featured on the cover of the first issue. The magazine title is a play on the term "
hot press", a common Irish term referring to a domestic .