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LATEST NEWS

Nicola Roberts wants Girls Aloud to reunite for group’s upcoming 20th anniversary

Disney’s Pixar introduces its first lesbian character in new movie ‘Onward’

Sturgill Simpson is “done” with his label Elektra Records

Marvel boss Kevin Feige almost quit his job over lack of representation, says Mark Ruffalo

Eminem responds to Lord Jamar’s claims that white rappers are “guests” in hip-hop

Bon Jovi share details of new album ‘Bon Jovi 2020’, release first single ‘Limitless’

ALBUM REVIEWS

Royce Da 5’9″ – ‘The Allegory’ review: a lesson in lyricism with wise words from Eminem and lesser-known talents

BTS – ‘Map Of The Soul: 7’: Korea’s global heavyweights come of age and survey their already enormous legacy

Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Ordinary Man’ review: the metal icon has quicksilver in his veins on first album in a decade

Grimes – ‘Miss Anthropocene’ review: an iconoclast continues to march to the beat of her own drum

FEATURES

Soundtrack Of My Life: Edith Bowman

Steve Coogan: “We need fewer opinions and more information”

Dave at the Brits: how his searing performance of ‘Black’ took on every racist tosser in the country

Pay tribute to the late, great Pop Smoke with his 10 best tracks

The Strokes live in London: the indie icons rock The Roundhouse with a back-to-basics career-high set

‘The Witch’ star Anya Taylor-Joy: “People always want to put you in a box”

GIG REVIEWS

PVRIS live in London: no new tunes, but it’s clear that frontwoman Lynn Gunn is an icon-in-waiting

Mura Masa live in London: party starting producer turned punk millennial mouthpiece flounders between two worlds

The Strokes live in London: the indie icons rock The Roundhouse with a back-to-basics career-high set

Kim Petras live in Manchester: larger-than-life pop star wows with parallel universe mega-hits

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Soundtrack Of My Life: Edith Bowman

Steve Coogan: “We need fewer opinions and more information”

Exclusive – Biffy Clyro return with ‘Instant History’: “I feel a responsibility to the world now – especially as a white male”

‘The Witch’ star Anya Taylor-Joy: “People always want to put you in a box”

Bring Me The Horizon tease new music: “It’s evolving everyday”

Foals on why they chose Jagwar Ma’s Jack Freeman as new bassist: “We’ve kept it in the family”

THE BIG READ

The Big Read – Ozzy Osbourne: “This album saved my life”

The Big Read – Tame Impala: “This band is the fantasy of music. It’s The Lord Of The Rings”

The Big Read – Green Day: “We live our lives as if we have nothing”

The Big Read – Kesha: “I made this record because it made my heart happy”

NME Awards 2020

All the incredible photos from The 1975’s stunning performance at the NME Awards 2020

See all the performances from the NME Awards 2020 – in beautiful photos

Check out these pics of FKA Twigs’ spine-tingling performance at the NME Awards 2020

All the wild photos from Yungblud’s flamboyant performance at the NME Awards 2020

The Big Moon say festival bosses not working towards gender balanced line-ups are “full of shit”

Tom Grennan calls his upcoming second album a “thank you note”

The Cure’s Robert Smith on their “two new albums and an hour of noise”

Fontaines D.C. talk to us about their new album – and speak the power of youth in Ireland

RADAR - NEW MUSIC

Rising rapper Che Lingo signs to Idris Elba’s label and releases the powerful and hard-hitting ‘My Block’

Aitch shares intense new freestyle ‘Mice’

Tiana Major9: why you need to be listening to Stormzy’s brilliant BRIT Awards special guest

Blood, sweat and beers: Sports Team take over their local for their chaotic album launch

FILM & TV NEWS

Disney’s Pixar introduces its first lesbian character in new movie ‘Onward’

Marvel boss Kevin Feige almost quit his job over lack of representation, says Mark Ruffalo

New ‘Star Wars’ movie in development with ‘Sleight’ director J.D. Dillard

‘Friends’ reunion confirmed: “It’s happening”

Hear a stirring piano version of Guns N’ Roses ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ in new ‘Westworld’ trailer

Billie Eilish’s ‘No Time To Die’ scores biggest opening week of all time for a Bond theme

‘Killing Eve’ hires ‘Sex Education’ writer to helm season 4

Someone has built the ‘Parasite’ house in ‘The Sims 4’