James McMahon, Author at NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs

Album Reviews

Nine Inch Nails – ‘Ghosts: V-VI’ review: a timely two-part dip into daydreams and nightmares

Though the timings suggest it can’t possibly have been conceived in the midst of such strange times, difficulty arises in listening to the new,...

James McMahon - 26th March 2020

Music Interviews

Cornershop: “There’s not a lot of politics in music. Paloma Faith isn’t politics. That’s business.”

Few bands could return into the maelstrom of hate and division that is modern Britain that would feel as needed as Cornershop. Since 1991...

James McMahon - 3rd March 2020

Blogs

‘Altered Carbon’ season two review: sci-fi murder mystery returns for a duller, more dim-witted alien adventure

Starring no one's favourite Avenger, Falcon aka Anthony Mackie

James McMahon - 26th February 2020

Blogs

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

The BBC's long-running series first aired on this day in 1985

James McMahon - 19th February 2020

Live Reviews

Sabaton live in London: war obsessed power metal at its very best

Sabaton’s alignment of mass euphoria and galloping old school metal is the best night out we’ve had all year

James McMahon - 9th February 2020

Blogs

Farewell to the poignant, powerful ‘BoJack Horseman’, the only thing that makes sense on Brexit Day

*Spoilers for 'BoJack Horseman' season six part two*

James McMahon - 31st January 2020

Features

The 50 Best Games Of The Decade: The 2010s

Recapping the 50 best videogames in the last decade of gaming

James McMahon - 20th December 2019

Blogs

The best rock star dogs of 2019

2019 was a great year for music but it might have been an even better year for dogs. Check these perfect pups from The 1975, Ariana Grande and MUNA.

James McMahon - 18th December 2019

Features

‘Big Mouth’ creator Nick Kroll: “America and the UK are two places everyone has the right to ask, ‘What the fuck is going on?’”

We talk Brexit, Donald Trump and his new stand-up shows in London

James McMahon - 17th December 2019

Blogs

Faith No More are back next year. Here’s why you should care about the wild and witty progenitors of alt-metal

It's been a long four years without them

James McMahon - 2nd December 2019

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