Category: Music Interview

Joe Keery: “I want my stage persona to surprise people”

Joe Keery: “I want my stage persona to surprise people”

It’s a roasting hot July day at Lollapalooza festival, Chicago, and Joe Keery is strutting confidently about the Bud Light…

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Ryan Castro: globetrotting superstar on a mission to “bring reggaetón back to its roots”

Ryan Castro: globetrotting superstar on a mission to “bring reggaetón back to its roots”

Ryan Castro is going global. We catch the Colombian rising star during the European leg of his summer tour: today…

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Ásgeir debuts new single ‘Limitless’ and talks leaving his comfort zone on new album ‘Time On My Hands’

Ásgeir debuts new single ‘Limitless’ and talks leaving his comfort zone on new album ‘Time On My Hands’

Ásgeir has debuted the second taste of his new album ‘Time On My Hands’. Listen to the sweeping new track…

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Miloe: Minnesota-based indie-pop star paying tribute to his Congolese heritage – and Coldplay

Miloe: Minnesota-based indie-pop star paying tribute to his Congolese heritage – and Coldplay

Bob Kabeya, AKA Miloe, has been getting lost in music from a young age. The 21-year-old bedroom pop artist, who…

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Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Bartees Strange

Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with Bartees Strange

NME meets Bartees Cox Jr – AKA Bartees Strange – at Third Man Records London just as the US artist…

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KOKOROKO: “If we don’t play this music, then a piece of our culture is lost”

KOKOROKO: “If we don’t play this music, then a piece of our culture is lost”

Bongo-centric percussion, semi-improvisational production and psychedelic grooves were all central tenets of the Afrobeat and highlife genres that took West…

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Soundtrack Of My Life: Vernon Kay

Soundtrack Of My Life: Vernon Kay

The first song I remember hearing C. W. McCall – ‘Convoy’ “It’s the theme to Convoy, the film with Kris…

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ZICO: “I will do everything in my power to become the pivot of the massive K-pop scene”

ZICO: “I will do everything in my power to become the pivot of the massive K-pop scene”

If Korean culture was already rising in popularity in 2020, then the last couple of years have seen interest in…

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Eliza Rose: the DJ behind this summer’s most empowering dance anthem

Eliza Rose: the DJ behind this summer’s most empowering dance anthem

If there was one song that took on a life of its own at Glastonbury 2022, it was Eliza Rose’s…

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Frank Turner on playing 50 US states in 50 days: “It was brutal”

Frank Turner on playing 50 US states in 50 days: “It was brutal”

Frank Turner has spoken to NME about the “brutal” experience of playing shows in 50 US states in 50 dates….

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