Author: Press Room

Kimj has just landed in New York when he speaks to NME over Zoom. He’s come back from his US tour, he says, and has just finished some pho at a restaurant. His phone’s on one per cent, and now he’s scrambling for a charger while discussing the state of the Asian underground scene. This is the Kimj experience: endearing and intense, with the Busan-born producer calm at the helm. His songs strike a similar note; yes, they might sound like Skrillex on steroids, but there’s always sweetness to be found in a snippet of a pop hook, or a…

After Miley Cyrus plunged into the experimental and psychedelic with last year’s ‘Something Beautiful’, her 10th album ‘Bass Persuades’ is more plain-spoken in sound and ambition. Containing just nine songs and a remix, all kept under 40 minutes, it’s leaner, more direct and more obviously built for the dancefloor, but keeps the eccentric streak that made its predecessor so compelling. It arrives at a moment of reinvention for Cyrus: it’s her first album under new label Atlantic and first project billed simply as Miley. A slight tweak but a decisive statement from an artist who’s been a country-pop star, ‘Bangerz’-era…

A grand jury investigating the death of Nolan Xavier Wells unanimously decided against making any indictments, Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath said in a statement Monday night. The 18-year-old football player from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was with friends on Horn Island, a barrier island near the border of Mississippi and Alabama, when he disappeared on July 4. Two days later, a U.S. park ranger found his body on the island where he was last seen. Wells, apparently, had decided to stay on the island after his friends left by boat. He was last seen around 3 p.m. wearing…

Jon Stewart took aim at Donald Trump‘s recent attack on the media on the latest episode of The Daily Show. The White House banned several major outlets, including CNN, MS Now, and Politico, from the press pool over the weekend, leading to plans for a lawsuit that was announced on Monday morning. “As many of you have heard, if you’ve been following the news, the hottest spot in D.C. has just changed their door policy,” Stewart recounted during his monologue. He then played a clip of Trump saying it’s “sick” that a country allowed its press to write “purposefully negative…

“Yo i truly can’t believe yall think this is what I’m doing with my free time” Channing Tatum responded to claims that he is behind a burner account on social media that has been hating on his ex-fiancée, Zoë Kravitz, and her new fiancé, Harry Styles. After internet rumors circulated that he was the owner of an account called @bidness_nonya, Tatum posted to his Instagram Story: “Yo i truly can’t believe yall think this is what I’m doing with my free time. Fuckin hilarious. Also why would I follow a burner account if I didn’t want people to connect me…

For music that is so unashamedly beautiful, there is something distinctly unnerving about The Meaning of Flowers, the fifth studio album from Danish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer Agnes Obel. The record, Obel’s first since 2020’s Myopia, reflects her experience of pregnancy and motherhood, with influences including Hannah Arendt, Danish pop music from the 1980s, and the soundtrack to Don’t Look Down.So far, so human. But The Meaning of Flowers wraps a deep humanity in feelings that are simultaneously otherworldly and profoundly earthy. Like the work of Enya, Clannad, or even Deep Forest, The Meaning of Flowers feels older than time,…

“22.9.1991, un giorno come tanti, ma non certo per qualcuno”. La voce di Luca ’O Zulù Persico entra così in Curre curre guagliò. Prima ancora del ritmo, del basso e della storia dei 99 Posse, arriva una data. Il 22 settembre 1991 è il giorno dei sigilli di Officina 99, quello del primo sgombero. Quattro mesi prima, il 1° maggio, nello stesso angolo della periferia orientale di Napoli era cominciata la storia di un gruppo formato da studenti, precari, disoccupati e militanti che aveva deciso di trasformare uno spazio abbandonato in un luogo politico e culturale. Trentacinque anni dopo, quella…

Perhaps it’s just a strange coincidence that the leader of the Drin bears a name that reads like a stage-alias mash-up of two of the most iconic artists of the 1960s. But while Dylan McCartney’s band deploys a brand of sinister, post-industrial psych-rock that doesn’t feel reverentially retro, his artistic ethos could best be described as a case of Dylan vs. McCartney: He’s both the ragged raconteur gazing wearily out at our cruel world, and the ambitious, console-savvy alchemist seeking to transcend it.Since launching the Drin with a home-recorded cassette in the pandemic-clouded summer of 2020, McCartney has effectively built…

Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey are a match made in platonic-friendship heaven. The members of After—their anachronistic “trip-pop” band—were born on the same day in 1995; Epstein told The Cut that his pickup line after they matched on Hinge was “Do you like Creed?”; she listens to Addison Rae and he likes French Canadian black metal, but you know what, they both love Coldplay. They might’ve met in search of romance, but they were destined to be besties and creative collaborators: the musical equivalent of Delaney Rowe’s 2000s rom-com parody, which blew up on TikTok for its spot-on satire of…

Actress’ music comes in fits and starts. That’s true of the songs themselves—which might be 20-minute slabs of ambient-leaning electronics or one-minute gasps of sharp, diffident funk—and for the way he releases them, with full LP campaigns punctuated by breadcrumb trails, short films, and download-only albums in between. His music follows its own strange, self-referential logic: Track titles are only vaguely comprehensible, and conceptual inspirations like chess and Milton’s Paradise Lost are flattened into his bit-crushed, hermetically-sealed sound world. The artist born Darren Cunningham is one of the most instantly recognizable electronic producers going, with a style—lo-fi, filtered, looping, limping—that…