Music Features

ME:I: the future-facing J-pop girl group you need to know

The 11-member idol group, formed through the reality competition ‘Produce 101 Japan The Girls’, are stepping into a new era with their latest release ‘Muse’

Sunflower Bean: “We want to speak on the extremity of feeling”

After the release of their third album, the rock band faced a crisis – they’d drifted apart so much they were no longer on the same creative page. They tell NME how they fought to rebuild their bond, coming out the other side with powerful new record ‘Mortal Primetime’

Tunde Adebimpe: “I feel lucky to have this mechanism to turn grief into something”

With 15 years of TV On The Radio demos stolen and reeling from the death of his sister, the polymath artist started over, took stock and fought back with the joyous neon buzz of ‘Thee Black Boltz’. NME finds out what he discovered and what’s next

Japanese Breakfast’s journey of growth: “Have fun. Don’t overthink it”

Michelle Zauner on the gorgeous new album ‘For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)’, lessons learnt from burnout and why she’ll be the “amuse-bouche of Glastonbury”

Black Sherif on his ambitious new album ‘Iron Boy’: “I’m building something that I can be inspired by”

The Ghanaian superstar, who merges Afrobeats, highlife, drill and more, shares the making of his most definitive album yet – one of reinvention, raw vulnerability and musical rebellion

Every Coachella line-up poster since 1999

Look back at the festival's lineup history by the medium of their legendary posters

Clem Burke, 1954-2025: Blondie’s adventurous beat-maker who set a new rhythm for pop music

The drummer set the pace for new wave and beyond with his knack for modernising styles from doo-wop to disco

Julien Baker & Torres: “Country music has to be potent, it has to be powerful”

Nearly a decade in the making, Julien Baker and Mackenzie Ruth Scott’s new country album ‘Send A Prayer My Way’ is a tender reclamation of their Southern roots

Indie rockers Momma on their new album, ‘Welcome To My Blue Sky’: “You got to fuck shit up to be happy”

Songwriters Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman were caught in a “perfect storm” that resulted in their vulnerable, autobiographical fourth album

Saffron are planning a new, more inclusive future for the music industry

Inside the non-profit’s annual artist retreat where they’re opening doors for women, trans and non-binary artists
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