Gary Ryan, Author at NME

Five Reasons Why You Need To Watch Rob Lowe’s Hilarious New Series ‘You, Me & The Apocalypse’

As the winter months creep in and the prospect of curling up on the sofa in your PJs sounds about a hundred times more...

Ryan Adams On Channelling The Smiths On His Taylor Swift Covers Album

“You know I’m the weirdo that put ‘Wonderwall on one of my records, right?” laughs Ryan Adams, talking about his top-to-bottom re-imagining of Taylor...

Farewell Funeral For A Friend – Five Other British Post-Hardcore Bands Worth Revisiting

It’s not been a good week for Elton John. First there was his telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin that turned out to be a...

OutKast’s Big Boi And Synth-Pop Duo Phantogram Go Warm And Retro On Big Grams Collaboration

“Oooh yeah, talk about a Vitamin D overdose!” hollers Big Boi towards the end of ‘Fell In The Sun’ – the jazzy opening salvo...

The View – ‘Ropewalk’

That the release of ‘Ropewalk’ was delayed while frontman Kyle Falconer checked into the Hope Clinic in Thailand – the same rehab facility as...

On The Road In Berlin With Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda: ‘We Never Held The Flag For Nu-Metal’

NME join Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda in Germany to talk the curse of nu-metal and check out his revived Fort Minor side-project... “What colour are...

What Are You Wearing? The Good, Bad And Mad Of Leeds Festival Fashion

Gingerbread men in lycra hoisted aloft onto shoulders during Alt-J, a Honey Monster battling to keep his big, bobbing football mascot head on while...

Metallica praise their fans and say they are ‘truly blessed’ as they close Leeds Festival 2015

Band returned to Yorkshire festival for first time since 2008 to play Main Stage set

Alt-J pay tribute to city where they formed as they play Main Stage set at Leeds Festival 2015

Band began at Leeds University in 2007

The Libertines At Leeds Festival – Five Talking Points

Prior to his band’s headline set at Reading and Leeds, Carl Barât told NME in an interview that people were expecting “straight-up, raucous Libertines”....