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Laura Marling’s New Album ‘Short Movie’– First Impressions
“The further I get into songwriting, the more I understand myself – the less I wriggle in my skin – the easier songwriting becomes.” So said Laura Marling around the time of the release of 2013’s...
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Should We Be Happy About Pharrell Williams’ Live Earth Concert?
Yesterday, Live Earth 2015, a concert featuring over 100 musicians playing in six continents to spread environmental awareness, was announced in Davos, a kind of diamond-studded hoedown of world...
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Portico (Quartet) Return With Hypnotic New Track, ‘101’, Featuring Alt-J’s...
After Keir Vine – who replaced Nick Mulvey in 2011 – left Portico Quartet in August 2014, the three remaining members – Duncan Bellamy, Milo Fitzpatrick, Jack Wyllie – renamed themselves Portico, after...
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Happy Birthday Yoko Ono! Hear Exclusive New Duet With Antony Hegarty, ‘I Love...
Today is Yoko Ono’s birthday. Born 82 years ago in early 30s Tokyo, she has spent much of her life so far on activism as well as art. On top of making 15 studio albums and working relentlessly within...
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Everything We Know So Far About Blur’s New Album ‘The Magic Whip’– And First...
Well, that was unexpected. Blur fans will be in heaven after today’s announcement of a new album complete with a massive live show in Hyde Park and the first new track and video. It will be the first...
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Rapsody Talks Working On ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’: ‘Kendrick Is Our Light, Our...
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ was released yesterday, one week early. If you were worried it wouldn’t live up to ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D City’, no need. It’s ridiculously good. Choice collaborators...
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Hear Django Django’s Cosmic New Track ‘Reflections’– NME Exclusive
Rainbow synths? Check. Cosmic harmonies? Check. Abundant vibes? Most definitely. Django Django are back with a glistening glitterball of a pop hit. It’s got the same analogue 80s synth propulsions as...
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Edan’s Cult ‘Beauty And The Beat’ Is 10: The Story Of A Magical Mystery Tour
The year 2004 was a whole different world. Preppy Kanye pitched up with a backpack and the autotune-free ‘The College Dropout’, Outkast were at their peak with ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Below’, and The...
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20 hilariously awful album covers redone with MS Paint
Remember Paint? The Microsoft Windows graphic programme that made everything look lurid and ridiculous? It’s being discontinued. Which is a massive shame. These MS Paint versions of classic album...
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Radiohead, Björk, Dylan: 12 beautifully poetic lyrics about nature
Wordsworth was famously rather good at writing about nature. “The ocean is a mighty harmonist,” he said, for example. Nice. Anyway, this got us thinking: what are the most poetically beautiful lyrics...
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The story behind Jeff Buckley’s most extraordinary vocal performance of ‘Grace’
Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’ was released in Britain over 20 years ago. Though it might seem like a classic album these days, its place firmly fixed in the canon of teenager lament-rock, the reality around...
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Disclosure: 5 Reasons Why The Duo Could Headline Festivals Next Year
By far the biggest crowd I was in at Leeds festival today (Friday, August 22) was at the NME/Radio 1 tent for Disclosure’s headline show. It was such a crush that, at one point, about 100 excited...
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Kate Bush’s Before The Dawn Shows Begin: The Story Of The First Night
Everything about tonight was extraordinary. First, for Kate Bush fans, it was a moment we never thought would happen. After 35 years away from the stage, we had accepted it was likely that our live...
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TED Talks: 10 Music-Related Lectures That Will Enrich Your Day
From crop insurance to gender violence, neuroscience to colour-shifting deep sea creatures, TED run lectures on many aspects of life on earth. Based in New York, the first conference happened in...
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Friends: 10 Unforgettable Music Moments
It was over twenty one years ago that the world first heard that twangy chromatic riff – ding diyiyiyng ding ding ding ding ding! – and the whiny vocals, ‘So no one told you life was gonna be this...
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SBTRKT –‘Wonder Where We Land’
A restless, inventive second album from producer Aaron Jerome and friendsIn 1936, Mexican artist Pedro Linares was bedridden with a serious illness. As he slept, he dreamt of deformed creatures – a...
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Thom Yorke’s Ten Best Non-Radiohead Tracks
There’s a lot to Thom Yorke outside of Radiohead. His 2006 solo debut ‘The Eraser’ was icy electronic proof that he’s as formidable a songwriting talent alone as he is in the company of Mssrs....
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Chic featuring Nile Rodgers round off ‘Le Freaks’ project at London’s Indigo...
The King of Disco performs a set of dance floor classics and hit collaborations with flare and chicChic featuring Nile Rodgers played a one-off show at London’s Indigo at The O2 last night (October...
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Steve Reich Interview: On Radiohead, Aphex Twin And ‘The Rite Of Spring’
Steve Reich met Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood in Poland in 2011. He was impressed by his classical work and when he got home, looked up Radiohead’s music online. He spent an hour on YouTube...
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Mercury Prize 2014: Young Fathers’ Single-Minded Craftsmanship Deserved To Win
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G Hastings from Young Fathers attend the Barclaycard Mercury Prize at The Roundhouse on October 29, 2014 in London, England. (Photo...
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