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Five Things You Need to Know About Drake's ‘More Life'

The Canadian superstar’s ‘playlist’ is an 81-minute beast with loads of British influence.

Riding It 'Til The Doors Come Off

It took their singer being hospitalised for Two Door Cinem a Club to admit they needed a break. Hamish MacBain meets a band back from the brink.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Instead, it’ll be at the Victoria & Albert Museum on November 5, thanks to a collaboration between the Levi’s® Music Project and Skepta

The Zayn Event - Fighting Talk as the 1D Rebel Goes Solo

Exactly one year ago, Zayn Malik quit One Direction. Since then, he’s split up with his pop star fiancée, hooked up with Frank Ocean’s producer and made a solo album. Gavin Haynes pulls up a stool at the pub in his back garden to hear the full story.

Who Is Alex Turner? A Portrait of a Modern Master

Alex David Turner is a tricky character to decode. A songwriting genius? Yes. A rock'n'roll cliche? Maybe. In a milestone year for the Arctic Monkeys frontman - and in the week that the new Last Shadow Puppets album is released - Matt Wilkinson makes sense of a true musical enigma. 

Fallen Empire

Back in 2008, Empire Of The Sun were glorious weirdos who wrote great pop songs. Now they’re just coasting.

The Top 10 Game-Changers Of Generation Nomad

Meet 10 young game-changers who are united by the same mindset: it’s your path, you can create it. They are singers, songwriters, artists and presenters; graphic designers, rappers, fashion designers and gig promoters. You haven’t heard of them yet, but you will. They are the future

NME Awards 2017 Nominations Party

Biffy Clyro ruled the Nikon Presents the VO5 NME Awards Nominations Party.

Goat Girl

All hail the lo-fi urban country sounds from south London’s coolest gang

Masterstroke

One of modern indie’s most iconic guitarists finds new life in his family history

The American Dream

The Talking Heads icon uses optimism – and eccentricity – to bandage the world’s ills

Lush!

Zara Larsson matters because she’s a new pop star with an exciting voice, both literally and figuratively.

More Artists Announced!

Playing Nottingham on NME and TOPMAN’s jaunt around the unis of Britain are teen singer songwriter Will Joseph Cook and indie-poppers Clean Cut Kid. CCK’s Mike Halls is psyc hed…

Peace Join The Stellar Line-up

Brum’s finest hop aboard TOPMAN and NME’s expedition of the UK’s unis. Harry Koisser cannot wait.

A Change Of Heart

Liverpool band Circa Waves ditch the lightweight indie for something meatier and more meaningful.

The Final Rebellion?

M.I.A. claims that her latest album ‘AIM’ will be her last. Emily Mackay meets Mathangi Arul pragasam to talk refugees,controversies and retirement, and encounters a person with a lot more still to say and do.

Time Of His Life

In his second life, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is an actor. Here he digs into his role in the upcoming Ordinary World.

How the Mop Tops Made the Modern World

A new film documenting the madness of the Beatlemania years shows the beginning of a cultural shift we’re still experiencing today.

Always On

Behind the scenes at Apple music’s game-changing Beats 1. Its London star, Julie Adenuga, is Leonie Cooper’s guide for the evening.

The Justin Bieber Experience

He might do skateboard tricks in his hotel suite and compare himself to Ghandi, but Bieber is close to shedding his brattish image. Tom Howard spends two hours with a pop star on the cusp of redemption.

Raging Against the Machine

Glasgow’s Twin Atlantic are fighting against preconceptions, rebelling against their label and banging a drum for their home town. Larry Bartleet hears the story behind the new album that’s completely redefining them.

Bling King: How Drake Became the Golden Boy of Rap

A week on from the release of his fourth album, ‘Views’, Drake finds himself the king of rap. David Renshaw looks into what makes the so-called ‘6 God’ the quintessential modern artist.

Lady Gaga's Cocktail Menu

HEAD TO JOANNE TRATTORIA ON WEST 68TH STREET, NYC, and you could be served a Sexxx Dreams Sangria cocktail by an A-list superfreak in a dress made entirely of glacé cherries. For this is the Germanotta family restaurant, and daughter Lady Gaga often works the bar when she’s in town. According to dad Joe’s new recipe book Joanne Trattoria Cookbook, these are her signature mixes…

A Storm Is Rising

Stormzy, the 23-year-old whose debut album ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’ is out this week, is the most exciting MC in the country right now. Jordan Bassett traces the pivotal moments in his ascent

First Band Announced!

Meet Brighton’s Fickle Friends, creators of highly danceable electropop

Time for T

A new Jamie T album is always a big deal. His latest, ‘Trick’, brims with punk, hip-hop, giant choruses and youthful excitement. He tells Rhian Daly about turning 30 and learning how to “give less of a f**k”.

Billie Marten

Teenager writing dark, smart songs