New Music | Under The Radar

Alongside the big names up for Best Rock Performance was a relatively unknown duo from Camden. We spoke to them about their shock nomination and how they're going to get "as drunk as possible" at the 2020 ceremony

Rhian Daly - 22nd November 2019

Music Interviews

Hannah Diamond: PC Music’s audio-visual artist who turned heartbreak into her long-awaited debut album

Where do you start when writing a pop song? Well, for Hannah Diamond’s ‘Invisible’, it began with 'Greensleeves': y’know, the 16th century folk song...

Hannah Mylrea - 18th November 2019

Music Interviews

“I want my music to change lives” — Dying In Designer on emo rap, Lil Peep and his “therapeutic” new album

Bobby O’Brien released his debut DID album back in August

Sam Warner - 18th November 2019

NME Radar

What’s Your Band Called, Mate? Get to know Loose Buttons

Every week we're introducing you to a brand new artist who we’re going mad for here at NME Towers via our ego-busting Q&A, What’s...

Sam Moore - 17th November 2019

Music Interviews

New York’s Habibi hypnotise on ‘Come My Habibi’ and give us the lowdown on their hot sauce-fuelled second album

Way back in 2014, Habibi (Arabic for “my love”) introduced themselves as one of New York’s most exciting bands. On their self-titled debut album,...

Rhian Daly - 14th November 2019

Music Interviews

Easy Life – On the road with the carnage-creating Leicester gang: “It’s like we’re in Metallica!”

Here’s a list of things that go flying through the air at Easy Life gigs: flower crowns from fans, actual lemons (a reference to...

Thomas Smith - 13th November 2019

Music Interviews

“We’re the most fucked-up band there is” — Meet Melbourne’s Tropical Fuck Storm

Tropical Fuck Storm have become one of Melbourne’s most subversive exports. Formed by Gareth 'Gaz' Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin while on a creative hiatus from...

Georgia Evans - 12th November 2019

Music Interviews

Cartel Madras are creating “Goonda Rap”, their very own rap genre

Eboshi and Contra, a pair of sisters who make up Calgary rap group Cartel Madras, emigrated to Canada in 1999. 20 years later, the...

Dhruva Balram - 12th November 2019

Music Interviews

“It started as a dumb idea I had at a bar” – here’s Drunk Dial, the label that insists artists record when trollied

The sleeve notes on a Drunk Dial release are pretty different from your usual credits: "These songs were recorded drunk on small-batch mezcal, a case of...

Rhys Buchanan - 11th November 2019

Iceland Airwaves

Iceland Airwaves 2019: Joe and Shitboys are the fearless, funny punks from the Faroe Islands

Joe and The Shitboys are a band of “bisexual vegans” from the Faroe Islands. How do we know that? Because it’s the very first...

Thomas Smith - 11th November 2019

Music News

Listen to Omar Apollo and Dominic Fike’s collaborative new single, ‘Hit Me Up’

Dominic Fike and Omar Apollo have released a new collaborative track called 'Hit Me Up' – listen below. Read More: Omar Apollo is the funked-up icon perfect...

Tom Skinner - 5th November 2019

Music Interviews

Mallrat’s country-flecked ‘Driving Music’ EP makes the everyday moments magical

A list of things that Mallrat – aka Aussie singer and producer Grace Shaw – has done in 2019: in February, she did swapped Australia...

Rhian Daly - 5th November 2019

NME Blogs

Inhaler are the Dubliners who want rock to rage again – and shake off those U2 comparisons

Inhaler are feeling a little worse for wear, though they make very valiant efforts to hide it. Last night, the band played a particularly...

El Hunt - 4th November 2019