Music Features

The dream BTS setlist: what the K-pop kings should play on their new world tour

It’s been over three-and-a-half years since the boyband staged a full-length concert – and even longer since they went on tour. Here’s the songs NME hopes they’ll perform as they kick off the ‘Arirang’ world tour

How David Chase used music to make ‘The Sopranos’ a timeless classic

The showrunner talks us through his mob drama's many iconic needle-drops

Wesley Joseph’s cinematic leftfield R&B and rap finds beauty in overlooked places

Returning from a three-year hiatus with his debut album ‘Forever Ends Someday’, the Walsall-raised, London-based multi-hyphenate delivers a staggering lesson in how to master musical light and shade

On ‘Ambiguous Desire’, Arlo Parks turns fleeting nocturnal moments into lasting songs

The British musician immortalises her experiences and a new embrace of playfulness and spontaneity on her dancefloor-focused, cathartic third album

Niall Horan on his first 10 years as a solo artist: “I’ve stuck to my guns and that’s stood me in good stead”

For the latest NME In Conversation, we talked to Niall Horan about how Radiohead and Damien Rice inspired his new album 'Dinner Party', the One Direction song he wants to pop off on TikTok, and the weirdest place he's heard his music

Mad Cool headliner bingo: what to look out for during the biggest sets

The Madrid festival is stacked with the likes of Foo Fighters, Florence + The Machine, Twenty One Pilots and Pulp

The Femcels aren’t afraid to get weird with their erratic electro-twee-punk

The buzzy London duo invite NME into their idiosyncratic world as they prepare for their first headline show and reflect on their recent debut album, ‘I Have To Get Hotter’

Snail Mail: “A lot of the new album is trying actively to keep myself human and unjaded”

Lindsey Jordan on leaving New York, confronting mortality, and the years-long process of writing her third album ‘Ricochet’

Elsas makes choral, Spanish alt-pop for lover girls: “Getting my heart broken is a great muse”

Positioning classicality versus contemporaneity, the Spanish musician’s latest EP ‘Aporiamor’ careens from cerebral balladry to buzzing electronica
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