NME Blogs

NME’s Albums Of The Year 2018

Buzzcocks: the brilliant punk band’s ten best songs

‘Thank U, Next’: Spot the cameos and film references in Ariana Grande’s glorious throwback video

5 things you need to know about LUCIA – the anthemic Glaswegian indie-rockers with a penchant for pub grub

Shredding the boards – how live gigs got theatrical

What’s new on the NME 1 and NME 2 playlists this week?

Grim and gloomy rap collective Worstworldproblems are the UK answer to Juice WRLD

Mark, My Words: every band break-up should be as spectacular as Witchrot’s

Can you complete the lyrics to these Christmas songs?

The worst Christmas Number Ones of all time

Pete Shelley: a musical pioneer who gave us lusty, essential punk pop

Oh, man: why Reading and Leeds needs to overhaul its tradition of all-male headliners

Do you have ASMR? Try our playlist of tingle-inducing songs

Don’t give up the day job – the pop stars with ‘proper’ careers on the side

Gaming Disorder is real – so here are the games that ruined NME writers’ lives

The ten best video games of 2018

All the Easter Eggs in the video for Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus’ ‘Nothing Breaks Like a Heart’

The bands proving Ireland is the new home of punk

Mark, My Words: forget Celine Dion, it’s the Critics’ Choice Award doing Satan’s work

The 1975’s most genius lyrics

Arctic Monkeys’ new track is the last dregs of space margarita from the ‘Tranquility Base’ bar

The Beastie Boys – their 10 greatest songs

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

Grimes has turned into an industrial-goth AI bot and I, for one, welcome our new robot overlord

The legendary acts who you’d assume have headlined Glastonbury but haven’t

Glastonbury trailblazers: the acts who gave Worthy Farm some of its most memorable firsts

The most Instagrammable spots for 1975 fans

Beatles songs get the millennial treatment

Is ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ the first Rockstar game worth giving up on?

Pop Is Not A Dirty Word: How Clean Bandit made anonymous superstardom a thing