Tom Connick, Author at NME

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Read every single one of The 1975’s NME cover features

Matty Healy of The 1975 is a journalist's dream – he's quote gold, spouting out lengthy, well thought-out sentences on anything you'd dare to...

The 1975’s new album ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’: Release date, tour dates and everything we know so far

If you thought the 1975-fest was over, you've got another thing coming. Arguably the biggest band in the world right now, Matty Healy and...

Harley Quinn movie ‘Birds Of Prey’: cast, trailers, release dates and everything we know so far

Suicide Squad's titular gang of misfits and criminals might have boasted a whole heap of characters, but few resonated quite like Harley Quinn. A...

Get lucky: Glastonbury ticket-buying masters reveal their secrets

There's no better way to ruin a Sunday morning than a Glastonbury ticket sale that goes wrong. One of the most stressful experiences the...

New Kanye West album ‘Yandhi’: release date, guest spots, producers and everything else we know

Just in case you hadn’t had quite enough Kanye West for one year, there’s another album incoming. Hold your eye rolls, though, cause this...

Foals’ new album: Everything we know so far about ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt.2’

From sweaty house shows to festival headline slots, Foals' rise to the top of the British indie pack is a story for the ages....

Get tangled up in Squid – the weirdo-punk band making the avant-garde accessible

Open the tabloids and it’s all avocado toast and selfie sticks, but there’s far more to millennial life than the papers would have you...

That Slipknot style – the evolution of the fright masks through the ages

Slipknot's covered-up faces are integral to their myth. From fucked up, skin-peeling botched surgery to eerie, blank expressions, the masks of the Iowa ninesome...

A morbid curiosity: PUP talk the brutal honest and ‘DIY ethics’ of their fast-rising punk

For Canadian fun-punks PUP, life's a double-edged sword. You can hear it in their music – a spirited, razor-sharp riff on pop-tinged punk, which...