The Big Read

The Manics’ 13th album aims to find beauty and positivity in a bleak-as-fuck post-truth world. Andrew Trendell finds Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield rockin’ in the not-so-free world. 

Jared Leto on 30 Seconds To Mars’ big ambition, being tech obsessed and #MeToo

Lost band members, wilderness years and even a fist fight hasn’t knocked The Vaccines’ spirit. As they release fourth album ‘Combat Sports’, they tell Larry Bartleet how they got back on top form

On the sly, Sunflower Bean have proven themselves one of the world's coolest, funnest and, er, hard-workingest bands. Following the brilliant 'Twentytwo In Blue' – a Top Five entry in NME's Albums Of 2018 – the New York trio today release the rocking follow-up EP, 'King Of The Dudes'. Rhian Daly meets them in Brooklyn to talk about music, patriarchy-smashing and that time at band camp.

Is George Ezra the nicest young man in rock ’n’ roll? Jonny Ensall goes in search of the wild side of a wandering troubadour

Stefflon Don acts like a superstar. And, thanks to a megabucks record deal, she’s becoming one. Larry Bartleet meets Britain’s hottest new rapper

Shame may well be the best band in the UK. Though they despise rock clichés, the acclaimed group is leading a vital, emerging UK guitar scene

Britain, 2017: a nation divided by anxiety about the future. But not in one particular area of the Midlands, where four friends just want...