Leonie Cooper, Author at NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs

Album Reviews

Willie Nelson – ‘First Rose of Spring’ review: Country music’s most prolific octogenarian returns with super-smooth 70th album

Still hard at it at the age of 87, Nelson opens his account for the 2020s with a fresh collection of country covers but just two new songs

Leonie Cooper - 2nd July 2020

Film Interviews

Danny Trejo: “The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ started a riot when I was in prison”

Nearly 50 years since he left "the hole", Hollywood's friendliest hard man reflects on a life of two halves

Leonie Cooper - 25th June 2020

Album Reviews

Neil Young – ‘Homegrown’ review: ‘lost’ mid-’70s album is a shimmering diamond well worth unearthing

This cheery, commercial collection stands as proof of Young's endless talent

Leonie Cooper - 18th June 2020

Blogs

Remembering the time the late Dame Vera Lynn played an anti-heroin gig with Hawkwind and Lemmy

The singer has sadly died at the age of 103. This is the story of the most punk thing she ever did

Leonie Cooper - 18th June 2020

Blogs

‘Lemmy’: seven legendary stories the pre-Motörhead biopic should include

The life of famed rock 'n' roll hellraiser Lemmy Kilmister is being made into a movie – not one for the family, then

Leonie Cooper - 17th June 2020

Music Interviews

Country star Jaime Wyatt on the road to new album ‘Neon Cross’: “I’m lucky to be alive at this point”

The singer-songwriter talks escaping LA, getting sober – again – and being a queer country artist in 2020

Leonie Cooper - 5th June 2020

Album Reviews

Diplo – ‘Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil’ review: super-producer falls off the saddle

Billed as a country album, this is actually business as usual for the EDM star, who's dressed up generic pop songs in rhinestones and tassels

Leonie Cooper - 28th May 2020

Features

‘The First Team’: inside football’s answer to ‘The Inbetweeners’

NME talks banter, bands and bare bums with the cast and creators of TV's new pitchside sitcom

Leonie Cooper - 21st May 2020

Music Interviews

Mike Skinner on working with Kevin Parker: “I just need Daft Punk to get in contact and my life will be complete”

The Streets legend on new mixtape 'None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive'

Leonie Cooper - 20th April 2020

The Big Read

Laura Marling: “America has become a bit more sinister now that it’s Trump-addled”

How Britain’s most bewitching singer-songwriter’s latest album, ‘Song For Our Daughter’, became a soothing balm for troubled times

Leonie Cooper - 17th April 2020

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