Music Interviews

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

Manic Street Preachers: “We’ve muzzled young generations – they get endlessly told off”

With the Manics' UK tour underway, they talk to NME about politics, tech bros, '90s nostalgia and why "we have to let young people make mistakes and not endlessly judge them"

Cortisa Star: “I’m a girl, I’m angry, and I can rap: let me do that”

The 19-year-old rapper went from viral TikTok success to walking at Paris Fashion Week. Now, she’s released her debut EP, about being “young, lit and turnt”

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”

Photographer Tom Sheehan on the secrets of shooting Oasis – and the band’s “unfinished business”

Check out exclusive pictures from 'Roll With It: Oasis In Photographs 1994–2002' as Sheehan tells us about what the Gallaghers are like off-stage, the chances of new material, and why the world needs the band now more than ever

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

Jessica Winter is injecting maximalism into her intriguing avant-pop sound

Having upscaled her craft through former bands, writing for other artists and her theatrical solo live show, the London-based artist has just announced her debut album – and it’s packed with larger-than-life pop hooks

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
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