Music Interviews

Fatboy Slim tells us about finally getting The Rolling Stones’ approval for mash-up ‘Satisfaction Skank’ after 25 years

Check out the dancefloor favourite as Norman Cook tells us about his long battle to release it, Mick Jagger being a huge fan, his hopes for Christmas Number One, the state of the dance scene and if he's still "lost his passion" for making new music

PinkPantheress on the surprise success of ‘Illegal’: “I didn’t really think it was going to be ‘the one’”

The Grammy nominee, whose viral phenomenon has been named NME’s Song Of The Year, reflects on a momentous 2025

The bittersweet rise of Bassvictim: “Cool is the good, bad and ugly”

NME meets the London duo making raw, riveting electroclash – amid a turbulent friendship

The Darkness on being part of Christmas and “one of the last proper rock ’n’ roll bands”

Fresh from their festive London pop-up show, guitarist Dan Hawkins told NME about their biggest tour in 20 years, their love of – and cover of – Radiohead, and reaching a new generation of fans

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on 20 years of ‘Howl’: “When someone tries to put us in a box, we try to sabotage our careers...

Robert Levon Been tells NME about giving the album its flowers two decades on, the "Mad Max wasteland" of music existing between "extremes of hyper wealth and hyper poverty" today, and taking on the US government

Saint Etienne on their farewell album and tour: “It’s a good point to stop – let’s not fuck it up now”

The band told NME about next year's celebratory shows, how their schedule could extend into 2027, still wanting to "keep busy together", their place in the '90s Britpop scene, and future solo work

Kurayamisaka tell stories with sincere, blown-out bliss from Japan’s spirited underground

Armed with triple-guitar catharsis and cinematic noise pop, the Tokyo quintet’s towers of distortion and devoted indie rock tell poetic tales of past and possible lives – and have ignited fierce genre debates

Wolf Alice are a band in constant evolution: “Not resting on your laurels is really exciting”

Since forming in the early 2010s, the four-piece have consistently pushed themselves forward, refusing to be beholden to one pocket of sound. Their fourth album, ‘The Clearing’ is taking them to new heights, as they conquer the UK’s arenas on their latest tour

Biffy Clyro on the biggest gig of their lives, their Scotland World Cup anthem and wild new material to come: “There’s life in the...

After announcing Finsbury Park, the Scottish rock trio invite NME over to their AirBnB to tell us why it'll be "the show that defines the summer" and open up about the battle to stay relevant – and if it really matters

Bib Sama. and TayoLoxs on the science of “ear candy” and creating their own digital universe

The duo fuse glitch, trap and video game soundtracks into a universe of chaos and liberation, staking their claim as the underground’s next great world-builders
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