Joe Goggins

For album 12, Dave Grohl leads the Foos – including new drummer Ilan Rubin – in a return to the nervy, no-frills punk of their earliest days

On their debut album, the Brooklyn duo compellingly diffuse their breadth influences through the prism of present-day club culture

The indie darling-turned-pop favourite is deliciously wry as she confronts the weight of viral stardom and success on LP eight

On her third album, Harriette Pilbeam doesn’t just ape her influences, but channels them with stunning nuance and empathy

While making his debut solo album ‘Lunga’, the Working Men’s Club frontman revisited old material he’d written as young as 14, finding profundity and peace in the work of his younger self

The south London band’s fourth album, ‘Cutthroat’, is one populated by bandits and hypocrites, delivering affecting character studies of society’s flawed figures. They tell NME about finding empathy and the group’s surprising diversions in sound

Breathtaking vocal harmonies, razor-sharp lyrical edge and delicate darkness set this Melbourne band apart

NME meets the winners of this year’s Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition in Manchester before they take the Woodsies stage

Experimentation has always been the name of the game for Jack and George Barnett, and their new album ‘Crooked Wing’ is no different

George Clarke reawakens his roar on the blackgaze band’s sixth album. It showcases the sheer scope of their sound to date – and breaks some new ground, too