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On the track, vocalist and drummer Chris W Ryan explores the dissatisfaction that comes from chasing perfection. “'Nothing' is an episodic song that is designed to reflect the same sentiments in different contexts…
Initially emerging with a fusion of broken beat, house, and jazz-adjacent elasticity, he’s since refined and overhauled his sound. New album ‘Future Bruk’ is a point of inflection, with Ben deliberately pushing himself…
You might need a couple of ibuprofen and a lie-down afterwards. Demi Moore perhaps thought she was here getting a gamey starring role, comparable to her Oscar-nominated turn in the beauty-industry satire The Substance .…
She first previewed Kill the Muse with "Bad Dream", released last month, with "Better the Devil" landing as the second taster. The track delves into one of the album's central questions of what pain is worth, exploring…
11 songs fly by in just over 38 minutes, built on big, heavy riffs and hooks that stay in your head, with a hard-rock swagger that nods to the 1970s. The abrasive drive puts the band in the same angry, high-energy…
After frontman Josh Homme’s brush with death added darker shades of drama and mortal gravitas to their already macabre performance in the Paris Catacombs in 2024, the accompanying live film and documentary was celebrated…
He arrives precisely when he means to.” But that isn’t true. On the bright September afternoon that NME meets actor Daniel Weyman, who plays the iconic mage in megabucks TV prequel The Rings Of Power , he’s been waiting…
The next, you're on a surgery table, with a healthcare professional yanking four superfluous teeth out of your mouth. Even pop stars need emergency dental work sometimes. It's all par for the course for April Grey, the…
The 300-page hardcover book is the third edition in the annually released collection, and features the likes of Maruja , Balu Brigada , Die Spitz , Gigi Perez , Say Now , BOYNEXTDOOR , Jae Stephens , Mon Rovîa , Westside…
First, in 2006, fiddler Craig Espie and bassist Barry Caulfield joined to round out their ceilidh arsenal. Then, in 2010 – the same year they founded their own label, Tyree Records – Alan Scobie joined on keyboards…