Radio Free Alice aren’t short of ambition, and they’re not afraid to express it either: “There’s a lot of people who don’t want to say they wanna be a really big band and then not be a big band and feel awkward about it. We never felt that we had to pretend not to be ambitious y people in our genre pretending not to be.”

Radio Free Alice are on #NMETheCover: nme.com/the-cover/radi…

Once a @Metallica fan, always a Metallica fan 🤘🏼

@TaikaWaititi spent high school sat at the back of the class etching band logos into his desk – and he's still a metalhead at heart ❤️

#KlaraandtheSun

Get ready for another "pop punch to the face"

Jade talks “brave and bold” new music, Reading & Leeds headline dreams and if we’ll see her at Glasto next year nme.com/news/music/jad…

Doves’ Jez Williams talks debut solo album ‘Life Of Me And You’: “It feels like destiny is coming to its starting point”

Check out the groove-driven single 'Hollow Man' as the guitarist turned solo star talks about being inspired by classic '60s and '70s pop on his "labour of love" debut, supporting Elbow for his first shows, and what the future holds for Doves nme.com/news/music/dov…

Suede tell us about progress on their new “anarcho-punk” album: “These are songs of tribes and belonging”

The indie icons caught up with NME on the red carpet of the Mercury Prize 2026, where they shared what makes a great album and what it's like to tour with Manic Street Preachers nme.com/news/music/sue…

The mighty @welovepulp on their full circle moment with the @MercuryPrize and @warchild, and @brianeno nearly throwing their prize money away

Jarvis Cocker also tells us about what he spent his wages on back when he was a paper boy as the indie veterans also share the secret to a great album nme.com/news/music/pul…

Elvis Presley rightsholders sue AI company Anthropic over alleged copyright infringement of 274 songs nme.com/news/music/elv…

Watch Ali G mock Noel Gallagher’s Oasis comeback and try to kick him out of cinema

"A 50-year-old white man trying to make a comeback after 20 years, so sad!" nme.com/news/music/wat…

My Chemical Romance face legal action from Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders over Hollywood Bowl costumes

The company behind the cheerleading squad is seeking a restraining order after the band featured lookalike dancers in a staged gunfight nme.com/news/music/my-…

Sam Fender scraps premium front-standing tickets and announces reduced prices for 2027 stadium tour nme.com/news/music/sam…

In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember. This week: De La Soul’s Kelvin “Posdnuos” Mercer takes the ultimate test! nme.com/features/music…

Get ready for another "pop punch to the face"

@jadethirlwall tells us about her “brave and bold” new music in the works, Reading & Leeds @OfficialRandL headline dreams and if we’ll see her at Glastonbury next year nme.com/news/music/jad…

We caught up with World News at @SwnFestival to look back on their most memorable festival moments, including seeing @radiohead, @alt_J and @parcelsmusic at Glastonbury, and to hear their most controversial music opinions

#WorldNews #SwnFestival

What makes a great album? Why is jazz going through such a renaissance right now? What does it need to thrive? These questions and more answered by Geordie jazz heroes @knatsncl at the @MercuryPrize 2026

“These are songs of tribes and belonging”

@suedeHQ tell us about progress on their new “anarcho-punk” album, and tell us about what makes a great record and what it's like to tour with @Manics at the @MercuryPrize 2026 nme.com/news/music/sue…

Sam Fender says he’s “not happy” with prices for 2027 stadium tour and they’re “getting changed”

He also criticised split standing sections at big shows: "It’s bollocks and it won’t be happening on this tour" nme.com/news/music/sam…

.@macklemore calls for “free Palestine” and condemns ICE at first show since Ed Sheeran saga

"It is not political [...] The message will always be love" nme.com/news/music/mac…

Slayyyter cancels UK and European tour dates due to illness

"I have laryngitis and vocal cord tears and have been ordered to go on medication and full vocal rest," she wrote, while her support act has been left stranded abroad nme.com/news/music/sla…

"If I feel like I've got to the end of the album and I've got to know a different part of you, honestly, then that's a successful album for me" – and who knows that better than @KojeyRadical? We caught up with the best-dressed man at the @MercuryPrize where he told us about ' in "a transitionary period between wanting success and having it" to fight against "an era of pretending", and his highlights of playing @RoyalAlbertHall and designing a "real life Hot Wheels" for @lotuscars

Watch @NoelGallagher talk @oasis reunion and working with a sibling on ‘Chicken Shop Date’

"You've just got to hope that you can do whatever it is you're trying to do as well as you once did it," said Gallagher, who also discussed being a "low-key" rock star, his friendship with Paul McCartney and more nme.com/news/music/wat…

Olivia Colman's Fisherwoman hires the local Basket Weaver to make her a boyfriend out of wicker in this weird, wooden romcom that's easily one of the oddest films of 2026

Read the full NME review of 'Wicker' here: nme.com/reviews/film-r…