Music Interviews

The Wombats Interview: “Sometimes I Purposefully Fuck Myself Up To Get A Song Out Of It”

“I’ve waited four years for this!” yells the teenager barging through the bouncing O2 Academy Brixton throng to the opening synth twinkles of ‘Techno...

Catfish And The Bottlemen On How New York Helped Inspire ‘Cocoon’ – Song Story

Catfish and the Bottlemen's Van McCann tells NME how he wrote 'Cocoon', which he describes as "our Dakota" - a nod to the Stereophonics...

Ride Interview: Backstage With The Returning Shoegaze Pioneers At Their First Gig In 20 Years

It’s a glorious Easter Sunday in Oxford and the city is thronging with visitors admiring the historic dreaming spires, basking on college greens or...

Brandon Flowers Interview: On Stalking Morrissey, His New Solo Record And The Future Of The Killers

It's getting too dark to see on a spookily windy evening in Hollywood. Brandon Flowers' hotel key is somewhere in his bag. “Shine me...

Tobias Jesso Jr Interview: On Heartbreak, Hype And Being Championed By Adele

This time last year, Tobias Jesso Jr. was living at his family home in Canada, working for a friend’s moving company and helping his...

The Prodigy Interview: On Anger, The Election And Why Electronic Music’s “Not Good Enough Anymore”

"Look, if you ask for the angry, shouty, gurney man, you’re probably not going to get him.” It’s mid-April 2015, and round the back...

Alex James Interview: How New Blur Album ‘The Magic Whip’ Nearly Never Happened, And Why He Won’t Apologise For Buddying Up With David Cameron

Nobody celebrated the new Blur album more than bassist Alex James. The cheesemaker and Cotswolds socialite tells John Earls what it’s like being back...

Speedy Ortiz Interview: On Nearly Breaking Up, The Indie Rock “Boys’ Club” And Their Fierce New Album ‘Foil Deer’

After 'Major Arcana', Sadie Dupuis struggled with intra-band tension and the pains of being public property. But instead of letting it break her, it's...

Blur Interview: Read The 2012 Story Behind Their Last Live Shows And The Beginning Of New Album ‘The Magic Whip’

After reuniting in 2009, Blur upped the ante on their comeback in 2012 with a series of huge summer shows, complete with new songs....

Django Django Interview: On Mythology, The Occult And New Album ‘Born Under Saturn’

Forget the ‘tortured second album’ archetype. With ‘Born Under Saturn’, Django Django are comfortably embracing the groove that took them from bedroom experimentalists to...
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