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Cat Burns at The Great Escape 2022: “My brain can’t compute the success of ‘Go’ – it’s mind-boggling”

The south London vocalist joins us at Brighton's The Great Escape to discuss hit single 'Go' and her upcoming Years & Years support slot

Vivienne Westwood: “Oasis? I heard it in a taxi once and thought: ‘Is that it?’”

Punk’s high priestess gives us a rare audience in London

The path to ‘Immortality’: Sam Barlow on reviving FMV games, ‘Pokémon Snap’, and 70s Brit Perv filmmakers

“I'm hoping I have actually made something that will divide opinion”

Eurovision 2022: Team behind Sam Ryder say “you can’t blame politics – we have a winning formula”

Ben Mawson from Dua Lipa's TaP Music management tells NME about selecting Sam, the Bowie and Elton John elements to his song 'Space Man', and the bid to have Eurovision "finally taken seriously"

Gaspar Noé on his haunting new film ‘Vortex’: “I could have died, I could have been brain-damaged”

The film offers a devastating depiction of getting old

Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Hanoi Rocks’ Michael Monroe

In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career

What does EA and FIFA’s split mean for fans of football games?

EA's given the FIFA name the red card, but it may be exactly what the industry needs

Soundtrack Of My Life: The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney

Drummer and rehabilitated Vanilla Ice fan

James Bay on new album ‘Leap’: “It’s a cohesive album, born out of the least cohesive time”

Listen to the uplifting new single 'One Life', as Bay talks to NME about taking risks, working with Finneas, and celebrating those closest to him

‘Fidget Spinner RPG’ has given me an existential crisis

Who spins the spinner?