Author: Press Room
In the two years since FLO’s sublime debut album, ‘Access All Areas’, much has changed. Not only have the British trio helped pave the way for an Anglophone girl group renaissance – they’re now joined by the likes of Say Now, Katseye, 3Quency, to name a few – but have since been on NPR’s Tiny Desk, clinched a Grammy nomination and are even set to tour Asia. To say they’ve levelled up is quite the understatement. But has their music kept pace? Leading up to the release of ‘Therapy At The Club’, Jorja, Renée and Stella told NME they “wanted…
Gracie Abrams has opened up about how her partner and actor Paul Mescal has helped influence her songwriting. The couple were first spotted together at the premiere of Gladiator 2 in November 2024 and they confirmed they were an item last year. During a recent interview with Vogue, Abrams initially suggested that she was “worried” that being in a steady relationship with Mescal might end up “threatening [her] drive to write music”. Now, in a new interview with Rolling Stone, she has clarified her comments and said she was surprised that people had interpreted them as her saying that she…
“He gave me the arc of a lifetime,” the actor said of the show’s creator Sam Levinson Colman Domingo said being part of Euphoria was the “experience of a lifetime” for him. The actor appeared on The Tonight Show to discuss his role on the HBO drama and reflected on the significance of his role as recovering drug addict Ali Muhammad. “The season has meant everything,” he told host Jimmy Fallon. “Sam Levinson gave me one of the most critical roles of my entire career. Someone who really is the voice and the conscience of a show. He can hold…
London-based singer and DJ iKeda might be making all the moves of a pop star, but describe her as one, and she’ll baulk at the term. “These days, it’s just too easy to call someone a pop star,” she says, sitting down with NME in a sunny Hackney pub garden. On the verge of releasing her latest EP ‘Bangs N Braces’, she’s adamant that the term carries real weight. “You really need to earn your stripes to have that label. Someone like PinkPantheress or Addison Rae, they’re building a whole image and world – those are true pop stars.” While…
BANG! It’s the crack of a snare that opens Man/Woman/Chainsaw’s aptly titled debut ‘Cannonball’ on ‘Only Girl’: an explosion in the side of the galley before an ocean of sound floods in. It’s a sea of shoegazey guitars and ascending violins, but buoyed by a dizzying dedication to pure pop melody. As guitarist Billy Ward told us in their recent NME cover story, this ain’t “weird for weird’s sake”. This South London six-piece aren’t the abrasively wanky art-rock Brixton Windmill kids they may seem on paper. The song always comes first, and it comes with a vibe and joy. What’s…
Dave Grohl once paid for Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin’s rehab before his death. READ MORE: Foo Fighters live in Liverpool: rock club vibes on a stadium scale from our greatest supergroup Mullin died at the age of 53 in January 2020. Singer-guitarist Pepper Keenan has now revealed in a new interview that in the lead up to the drummer’s death, the Foo Fighters frontman tried to help Mullin. When asked whether he knew Corrosion Of Conformity’s 2018 album ‘No Cross No Crown’ would be their last with the late sticksman, he told Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza’s podcast: “Well,…
“I feel like I’m just now getting to the point to where I actually really like and love the music that I’m creating,” Willow recently told The New York Times. “Before, I just felt like I was kind of stumbling in the dark.” What felt like stumbling could also be seen as a series of leaps. At just 25 years old, she has released nine genre-spanning solo albums, earning two Grammy nominations in the process. As of late, she’s also been playing most of the instruments herself. In February, she released petal rock black, where she showcased her skills on…
“Let’s go missing,” Phoebe Bridgers declares on Lost Weekend. That’s exactly what she did, more or less, immediately after ascending to a new level of stardom in 2023 with boygenius, her indie-rock supergroup, alongside Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker. At the 2024 Grammys, where Bridgers won more awards than any other artist, she described her upcoming plans on the red carpet: “Now, we walk into the sunset,” she said. She’s back now with her first solo album in six years, and there’s a lot of catching up to do. Bridgers makes up for the last several years (you might call…
The star’s show in Kentucky was pushed back due to “unforeseen circumstances” Barry Manilow‘s concert in Lexington, Kentucky, was postponed just as the doors of Rupp Arena were scheduled to open. The announcement shared on the singer’s social media simply read: “Due to unforeseen circumstances tonight’s show in Lexington has been rescheduled.” An exact reason for the postponed event was not provided. In a separate statement, the venue said that all previously purchased tickets will be honored at the new date once it is announced. According to local NBC affiliate Lex News, this is the second time Manilow has postponed the stop…
If there’s a common principle to folk music, it’s in its sense of community. It draws on shared language—histories and myths, mountains and the people who climbed them. Folk music has taken on many faces, but a key feature is its ability to be repeated, sung again and again throughout time by any number of different performers with only the barest of instruments. For Australian singer/sound-collagist Hana Stretton, however, her songs aren’t organized around melodies or lyrics as much as moments: the tune a floorboard makes when it creaks, or how a harmonica’s whinny wilts as it travels through the…
