Music Interviews

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

Remember Monday on bringing Queen-inspired chaos to Eurovision: “If we finish top five, we’re all getting tattoos!”

The Eurovision hopefuls tell NME about 'What the Hell Just Happened?', getting approval from Taylor Swift and Brian May, and plans to avoid getting nul points at the big final in Basel

Orbital talk new collabs with Tilda Swinton and Confidence Man and revisiting ‘The Brown Album’

As they share 'Deepest’ with Swinton and remix Con-Man to announce a reissue of their seminal second album, the electro pioneers look back on another era and tell us how "there haven’t been many contenders" for new dance Glasto headliners

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

Sparks tell us about new album ‘Mad!’, Trump’s America, and dreams of working with The Last Dinner Party

As the maverick duo release new single ‘Drowned In A Sea Of Tears’, the Maels tell NME of politics, their "totally different" new John Woo-directed film, still doing things their own way, and finally caving in to a guitar solo

The Miz says Snoop Dogg “sucker-punched” him at WrestleMania 39

He also told NME about his love for Sleep Token and how he still feels the need to prove he's more than "just a reality guy"

Charlotte Flair wants to see Megan Thee Stallion in WWE

“Megan, two queens side by side – let’s make it happen, please," the wrestling champ and daughter of Ric Flair told NME

Nu-metal revivalist Amira Elfeky is leaning into the heaviness

The Connecticut-born singer is crafting a gothic, romantic sound that’s earned her a feature with Architects and an opening slot for Bring Me The Horizon

The Hives tell us about fighting back on ‘Enough Is Enough’ and their new album: “We’re at the peak of our powers”

Pelle Almqvist tells NME about their "raw as fuck" new album "of 12 singles" 'The Hives Forever Forever The Hives', as well as playing with Arctic Monkeys, and working with QOTSA's Josh Homme and Beastie Boys' Mike D

Djo on stripping everything back for third album ‘The Crux’: “I’m not trying to live in the past”

With ‘Stranger Things’ coming to an end, Djo – aka actor Joe Keery – tells NME about shedding his on-stage persona and embracing the unknown
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