Author: Press Room
Dark fantasy game Crimson Moon is out now (September 1) and HEALTH have shared their crushingly heavy contribution to the game’s soundtrack exclusively on NME – check it out below. Crimson Moon is “a gothic high renaissance action-adventure RPG built around intense, replayable missions” from indie studio ProbablyMonsters. Players take on the role of a Nephilim, a ruthless human-angel hybrid forged to defend humanity, before being immersed in “a blood-soaked power fantasy.” The game’s original soundtrack has been composed by ProbablyMonsters’ Christopher Wilson but he teamed up with some rock legends to create the music for Crimson Moon’s boss fights,…
Most acts wouldn’t even dare to dream of performing in front of thousands of people at one single stadium, let alone dozens of them, before their debut studio album has even come out. But that’s precisely what’s happened to Puerto Rican quartet Chuwi. Ever since the band – comprised of siblings Willy, Lorén and Wester Aldarondo Torres, plus Wester’s school friend Adrián López Soto – received the offer to feature on Bad Bunny’s monumental album ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ in 2024, they’ve been on a rollercoaster of pivotal shifts. “It’s hard to explain how it all felt,” Willy says emotionally…
Westside Cowboy caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2026 to tell us about their whirlwind year, slapping a smile on the face of modern indie, and hopes for “weirder, poppier” new music. Fresh from the release of their acclaimed and long-awaited debut album ‘It Goes On‘, the rising Manchester alt-country outfit packed out The Ballroom tent at both Reading and Leeds sites. This was their first time playing the legendary festival, but singer and guitarist Reuben Haycocks came as a young punter in 2019, their return bringing bad a flood of “PTSD” from that heady weekend. This time through,…
The singer admitted that when she sees a photo of the actress sometimes she thinks, “Oh, that’s a picture of me” Monica Barbaro has already embodied Joan Baez onscreen so why not Olivia Rodrigo as well? During a conversation with filmmaker Cameron Crowe at the Grammy Museum last night, Rodrigo revealed that she hopes the A Complete Unknown actress could someday play her in a movie. “Sometimes I see a picture of Monica Barbaro and I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a picture of me. Oh no, that’s Monica,’” Rodrigo replied after being asked who would play her in a film. “So…
The global trek will hit the U.K., Europe, and North America before wrapping in November Katseye launched their global Wildworld Tour last night at Dublin’s 3Arena. The tour opener comes only days after the group cancelled their appearance at Olivia Rodrigo‘s Daisy Chain Fields Festival in Irvine, California, after member Megan Skiendiel suffered a sprained ankle. Skiendiel was rested up for the Dublin concert, which also featured group members Daniela Avanzini, Yoonchae Jeung, and Lara Raj. Sophia Laforteza was notably missing after announcing a hiatus from Katseye in August. The show opened with single “Hootie Frutti” and included several of…
R.I.P. to the internet. In the same way those who believed in punk’s revolutionary promise had declared it dead by 1977 (despite the music’s persistence), tech critics have long argued that we’re spending our lives on a necrotic World Wide Web that decays further every day. The Dead Internet Theory argues that the combined effects of SEO juicing, corporatized traffic flow, and the overwhelming presence of bots have riddled the system with so many cavities it’s functionally incapable of sustaining pure human expression. Presumably, you already know this—you’re reading this on the internet, after all. But knowledge is one thing,…
iKeda’s music conjures images of Day-Glo leggings, plastic shutter shades, and early Photoshop collage: an eternal summer 2007. The singer is a familiar face on the London scene, opening for PinkPantheress, collaborating with Babymorocco, and holding her own among the city’s rising class of cool girls. Her debut EP, 2024’s Pretty Little Problem, made a quick study of the sounds of late-aughts electronic music, piling up layers of references and knocking them down as it swerved from dubstep to bassline, speed garage to UK funky. Its strobe-lit glare sometimes seemed to outshine iKeda’s own personality, a fatal flaw when staking…
“SHIT FEEL LIKE 1993 AGAIN AND I WASNT EVEN BORN IN 1993😂‼️” Mike Shabb recently proclaimed. So many roads lead back to albums like Midnight Marauders, Doggystyle, and Enta Da Stage. We demand that young artists know their history, but sometimes you have to ask if they’re true disciples of the 36 Chambers or just greedy hirelings flipping “T.R.O.Y” or “O.P.P.” for C.R.E.A.M. It takes a certain gumbo of technique, knowledge, and skill to venerate the past without coming off like a tribute band. Leave it to a sound architect like Shabb to give up the goods on Sewaside IV,…
In Asher White’s hands, melody can seem to do almost anything: It can vault across baroque chord progressions, bridge the distance between genres, chart a course from the doldrums to redemption and back. On Love Aggregates, her latest record and her second full-length release this year, her nimble voice leads you through the densest arrangements, even when the music swallows most of her words. It is a surprise, then, to go back over the 26-year-old musician’s 27 (yes, 27) releases over the past decade or so and find that she began her recording career not as a singer-songwriter but as…
Jay-Z has announced an immersive pop-up experience taking place at London’s Trafalgar Square this week, which follows on from him opening a pop-up shop in Camden. Both new events come in celebration of the rapper bringing his massive ‘JAŸ-Z 30’ world tour to the UK later this week – where he will headline Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on September 4 and 5. At the shows, he will continue to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his huge album ‘The Blueprint’, and also look back at his three decades of releasing music. Last week (August 27), Jay-Z launched an exclusive JAŸ-Z 30 pop-up…
