Category: Music Interview

Kihyun reflects on finding peace in ‘Voyager’: “Right now, I’m more of a free person”

Kihyun reflects on finding peace in ‘Voyager’: “Right now, I’m more of a free person”

In the run-up to the release of his debut solo single album ‘Voyager’, Yoo Ki-hyun – best known mononymously as…

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Placebo: “David Bowie taught me how to be a better person”

Placebo: “David Bowie taught me how to be a better person”

“It makes me laugh, because in the ‘90s I used to go out a lot – I mean, a lot,” Placebo…

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Island Of Love: Meet the first band signed to Jack White’s Third Man Records London imprint

Island Of Love: Meet the first band signed to Jack White’s Third Man Records London imprint

Love songs are timeless, whatever the genre. From The Beach Boys’ tear-jerking, balladic horns in ‘God Only Knows’ to the…

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Shenseea: Jamaica’s dancehall hero plots out a path to superstardom

Shenseea: Jamaica’s dancehall hero plots out a path to superstardom

Shenseea exudes confidence with everything she does. When NME enters the video chat with the Jamaica star, she introduces herself…

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Soundtrack Of My Life: Kathy Sledge

Soundtrack Of My Life: Kathy Sledge

The first song I remember hearing Mary Wells – ‘My Guy’ “All those Motown sounds, it’s the backbone of how…

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Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Ibeyi

Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Ibeyi

It’s been almost five years since twins Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz – better known as the musical duo Ibeyi –…

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Rema: ambitious afrorave pioneer with fans in FKA twigs and Skepta

Rema: ambitious afrorave pioneer with fans in FKA twigs and Skepta

Benin City lies 40 kilometres north of the sun-pierced Benin River. Standing as the fourth largest city in Nigeria, the…

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Tkay Maidza on winning Best Solo Act From Australia at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “It means everything to me”

Tkay Maidza on winning Best Solo Act From Australia at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “It means everything to me”

Tkay Maidza has reflected on her win for Best Solo Act From Australia at the BandLab NME Awards 2022, saying…

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Bob Vylan on “iconic” Ghetts and their “incredible” new album

Bob Vylan on “iconic” Ghetts and their “incredible” new album

Bob Vylan caught up with NME at the BandLab NME Awards 2022, where the punk duo praised Ghetts as “one…

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Amelia Dimoldenberg and Munya Chawawa backstage at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “Will I die tonight? We don’t know”

Amelia Dimoldenberg and Munya Chawawa backstage at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “Will I die tonight? We don’t know”

After co-presenting the award for Best TV Actor to This Way Up‘s Aisling Bea, Munya Chawawa and Amelia Dimoldenberg paid…

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