Music Interviews

Fever 333: “When people say ‘I don’t see colour’, that’s ignorance”

Last October, Fever 333 released 'Wrong Generation', a knockout EP that coupled hard truths with a genre-defying blend of hip-hop, rock and metal. It...

Fred again..: super-producer’s emotive electro-pop longs for connection in a lost year

The Stormzy and Brian Eno collaborator's eclectic and electrifying debut offers scintillating snapshots of his travels thus far

Lomba Sihir: Indie supergroup’s debut is a tribute to Jakarta in all its chaotic glory

The sextet, who went from playing as the Hindia live band to a fully-fledged group of their own, are all about easy chemistry and having fun

Meet the sonic experimentalists bending Asia’s folk traditions into fresh shapes

Churashima Navigator, Temple Rat and more artists tell NME how they blur the lines between past and present, analogue and digital

Serj Tankian: “I think the whole world felt some relief that Trump was gone”

Six years ago, Serj Tankian began discussions with the rest of System of a Down about working on new music. He’d written five tracks...

HMLTD on ‘Leaving’ – the first “ever-evolving song” with layers to be sold as NFTs

Fans will be able to create 6,400 different versions of the song

Sorry on new EP ‘Twixtustwain’: “It might tap into how people are feeling now”

With debut '925', the band won praise and a reputation for being tight-lipped. Here, though, they open up

On ‘Huminga’, Zild Benitez reintroduces himself: “Now all I have is storytelling and my own memories”

Zild’s solo debut was a deliberately synthetic reaction to his band IV Of Spades. His second album ‘Huminga’ is more him, he says – a document of a growing songwriter

L’Impératrice on overcoming the patriarchy with funk, fun – and a nod to Billie Eilish

The French group's second album embraces a bold new stylistic choice, all while balancing the personal and the political for the first time

Noa Mal: Filipino lo-fi indie rocker finds “freedom in writing, not fear”

The ‘sadcore’ singer-songwriter is building a dedicated audience with vulnerable, unpolished songs recorded from her Lucena City bedroom