Category: Music Interview

Skepta, Julie Adenuga and JME’s mum Ify on her legendary kids and new memoir

Skepta, Julie Adenuga and JME’s mum Ify on her legendary kids and new memoir

If anybody deserves a medal for parenting, it’s Ify Aduenuga. All of her children – Joseph  Junior (aka Skepta), Jamie…

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Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Becky Hill

Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Becky Hill

You’d be forgiven for recognising a Becky Hill song, but not necessarily Becky Hill herself.  But don’t worry, this is…

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Bea Miller: political pop to inspire millennial masses

Bea Miller: political pop to inspire millennial masses

Bea Miller is worrying about getting old. Her new song ‘Wisdom Teeth’, a Lorde-meets-Billie Eilish belter taken from upcoming EP…

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Enny’s ‘Peng Black Girls’ is a joyous celebration of individuality

Enny’s ‘Peng Black Girls’ is a joyous celebration of individuality

Community is at the heart of everything that Enny creates. One of South East London’s finest rappers’ third single ‘Peng…

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Blondie’s Debbie Harry on their 2021 UK tour with Garbage and how she wishes she’d written ‘WAP’

When Garbage frontwoman and NME Icon recipient Shirley Manson inducted Blondie into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in…

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Rostam: “In America, it feels like the end of the nightmare is coming”

Rostam: “In America, it feels like the end of the nightmare is coming”

It was March 12 when Rostam Batmanglij returned to Los Angeles from a trip to New York, where he’d been…

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Baby Rose: Atlanta star’s stunning debut boasts once-in-a-generation voice

Baby Rose: Atlanta star’s stunning debut boasts once-in-a-generation voice

“I went through a period of time during middle school where I was ostracised because of the way I talk,”…

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Julie Adenuga on Season 3 of ‘Julie’s Top 5’: “I just really love a good argument!”

Julie Adenuga on Season 3 of ‘Julie’s Top 5’: “I just really love a good argument!”

Julie Adenuga’s YouTube show, Julie’s Top 5, is known as “the most argumentative show” about music right now – and…

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Maxïmo Park’s Paul Smith: “It feels like nobody’s been held to account for the Grenfell Tower fire”

Maxïmo Park’s Paul Smith: “It feels like nobody’s been held to account for the Grenfell Tower fire”

Crumbling communities, burning tower blocks, manipulative phone screens; having railed against the horrors of Trump-era politics on 2017’s ‘Risk To…

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Stevie Nicks: “In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie and I were a force of nature”

Stevie Nicks: “In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie and I were a force of nature”

Nothing will slow Stevie Nicks down. When Fleetwood Mac concluded their year-long world tour at the end of 2019, the…

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