Category: Music Interview

Sparks tell us about working with Adam Driver and “coming from a different realm of pop”

Sparks tell us about working with Adam Driver and “coming from a different realm of pop”

More than 50 years into a career that has seen them turn their Midas touch to everything from operatic glam-rock…

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Sleaford Mods: “I apologise for making fun of NME in our song”

Sleaford Mods: “I apologise for making fun of NME in our song”

Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Sleaford Mods do: the Nottingham spoken-word punk duo – producer Andrew Fearn and…

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Public Practice: NYC disco-punks’ boredom-busting debut is where Blondie meets B-52’s

Public Practice: NYC disco-punks’ boredom-busting debut is where Blondie meets B-52’s

The release of your debut album should be a big, exciting thing that you can go out and commemorate however…

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Ian Curtis: why the enigmatic Joy Division frontman remains British indie’s greatest unknown pleasure

Ian Curtis: why the enigmatic Joy Division frontman remains British indie’s greatest unknown pleasure

This piece originally appeared in NME, May 22 2010 Every year, millions of fans shuffle up the Boulevard de Belleville…

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Sweet Whirl: Carole King and Jack Kerouac meet Beach House, as a Melbourne singer-songwriter turns to the world

Sweet Whirl: Carole King and Jack Kerouac meet Beach House, as a Melbourne singer-songwriter turns to the world

Sweet Whirl’s Esther Edquist never minded being the centre of a room – provided it wasn’t one she was expected…

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Moses Sumney on resisting definition and new album ‘græ’: “My identity is a kind of patchwork”

Moses Sumney on resisting definition and new album ‘græ’: “My identity is a kind of patchwork”

Moses Sumney was broke and hungry when he took to the stage for the second solo performance of his professional…

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Asking Alexandria: “Corey Taylor told us this record would piss people off”

Asking Alexandria: “Corey Taylor told us this record would piss people off”

“I saw a comment online the other day from someone who clearly didn’t like our new song,” Asking Alexandria guitarist…

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Hurts tell us about dark new single ‘Voices’: “We’ve gone back to the essence of who we are”

Hurts tell us about dark new single ‘Voices’: “We’ve gone back to the essence of who we are”

Hurts have marked their return with the slick new single ‘Voices’, which frontman Theo Hutchcraft said was driven by the…

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Matt Bellamy tells us about going solo, Muse’s next move and “embracing the simple life” of lockdown

Matt Bellamy tells us about going solo, Muse’s next move and “embracing the simple life” of lockdown

Matt Bellamy has been enjoying the quiet life. Yes, really. The eccentric Muse frontman, famed for his love of high…

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Alison Mosshart shares solo song ‘It Ain’t Water’ and tells us what’s next for The Kills

Alison Mosshart shares solo song ‘It Ain’t Water’ and tells us what’s next for The Kills

Life under lockdown isn’t so different for Alison Mosshart. The Kills‘ frontwoman – also of The Dead Weather – has…

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