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LATEST NEWS

“They’re bringing everybody back”: Chris Pratt on ‘Jurassic World 3’ cast

Neil Young wants to tour historic venues but is struggling to find many still in operation

Kirk Douglas leaves most of his $61 million fortune to charity

Watch Rihanna receive President’s Award for her philanthropic efforts

Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X to play Australia bushfire relief concert in Melbourne

Alice Cooper to make appearance in second episode of Amy Poehler’s ‘Duncanville’

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

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”

All the synapse-sizzling internet references in The 1975’s bizarre video for new track ‘The Birthday Party’

‘EastEnders’ at 35: here’s 10 of the bonkers soap’s most iconic storylines

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

“They’re bringing everybody back”: Chris Pratt on ‘Jurassic World 3’ cast

Kirk Douglas leaves most of his $61 million fortune to charity

Alice Cooper to make appearance in second episode of Amy Poehler’s ‘Duncanville’

Clint Eastwood dumps Donald Trump in favour of Mike Bloomberg in 2020 election

Joaquin Phoenix is producing a new film about animal sentience

Watch the first trailer for ‘Transformers: War For Cybertron: Siege’

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