Andrew Trendell
Andrew Trendell is an experienced and award-winning music and culture jouranlist, with renowned for agenda-setting news and reviews, interviews with huge names and cutting-edge stars, red carpet coverage, helping to save grassroots venues and ensure artists are fairly paid, and all-round coverage from the underground up.
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Warpaint kick off Harry Styles’ Meltdown with first gig in nearly two years at Southbank Centre
See footage, photos, the setlist and more from the opening night before the likes of Stephen Fretwell, Bar Italia, Dev Hynes, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, and Soulwax take to the Southbank stage
Inside the viral LCD Soundsystem-esque ‘Very Unofficial Scotland World Cup Song’
"If James Murphy liked it that would be nice, but I'd imagine he'd think: 'The kids are coming up from behind – but this one I'm not concerned about actually...'"
Jeff Goldblum: “I was floating on air singing with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo”
The screen icon and 'Jurassic Park' star tells NME about his "second life" in jazz, working with Charlie Puth and "those wonderful, wonderful ladies from Wicked", his dream collaborators and the relationship between music and film
Fontaines D.C. pay tribute after death of manager and “the sixth member of the band” Trevor Dietz
"He cared passionately for us and for what was fair and right in the wider world. He was fearless in his beliefs. We will miss him always"
Interpol tell us about new album ‘This Mirror Weighs A Ton’: “We just felt, ‘Let’s make this one count'”
Check out the Massive Attack-inspired title track and "classic Interpol" 'See Out Loud' as frontman Paul Banks explains how fatherhood, improved band chemistry and becoming a five-piece helped create a "no-skip record"
Death Cab For Cutie on divorce, holding it together, and ‘I Built You A Tower’: “One of the most powerful things to say is, ‘You’re not alone’”
As the indie veterans release their 11th album, frontman Ben Gibbard talks to NME about jumping on Anti- records, his love of Geese, what rock ‘n’ roll has lost over the last 20 years, why young people are facing such an uncertain future, and how “we’re all just raging against the dying of the light here”
Beastie Boys’ Mike D announces debut solo album ‘Thank You’
"The way I describe the record is that musically it’s still pretty immature, and lyrically it’s a little bit more mature," the rap icon told NME, as he shares new single 'True Colors'
No Sleep Till… North Shields: Beastie Boys’ Mike D talks going solo and keeping weird venues alive
The rap icon meets NME in a bingo hall up north to tell us about the battle for the grassroots, and being the first Beastie Boy to go solo after the death of Adam Yauch: "I had to learn how to feel all over again"
Belle & Sebastian tell us about their Scotland World Cup anthem ‘It Only Takes One Lion’: “Who needs three? I wouldn’t know!”
Frontman Stuart Murdoch tells NME about penning the hymn-meets-disco banger for Scottish glory, hopes and dreams for the team, his boyhood obsession, and what's next for the band
Ed O’Brien talks conquering his “dark night of the soul” and Radiohead’s future
The guitarist opens up about how meditation, nature and “walking through the fire” of his depression shaped his new solo album ‘Blue Morpho’, finding new confidence in Radiohead, and why “society doesn’t really want to look at what the causes are” of mental health issues
Thom Yorke on the impact of Nirvana, the Radiohead tour and his “fucking different” new solo album
"I remember when I first heard ‘Nevermind’ and I was like, ‘OK, it’s on’"
Ed O’Brien – ‘Blue Morpho’ review: Radiohead man’s beautiful path to healing
The guitarist’s second solo outing – but first under his actual name – offers mindfulness via a widescreen prog-folk trip