The Big Read
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Denzel Curry: “The greatest rapper alive? Who’s going to tell me I’m not?”
The Florida rapper is in a creative purple patch. Now he has his sights on legacy
Turnstile: “When the stars align for things to happen, we follow them”
How the Baltimore harcore band became the live act of the summer
Glastonbury: your favourite artists on why it matters
Pete Doherty, Haim and many more on the best festival in the world
Sampa The Great: “Music is the one thing that is supposed to be the truth”
Sampa Tembo tells NME about new album ‘As Above, So Below’ and its driving force and guiding “mentality”, Eve
Billie Eilish: “I owe it to everyone to put on a good Glastonbury show”
Worthy Farm’s sense of occasion is not lost on the festival’s youngest-ever headliner
Sky Ferreira: “I’m starting to realise: I’m glad that I sound like me”
After almost a decade of delays, the game-changing pop star’s second album ‘Masochism’ is finally on the way. In the meantime, she’s sharing bills with her hero Grace Jones
Muse: “There’s gonna be a big shift. We’re dealing with a disruptive transition”
Matt Bellamy reveals his bracing – or terrifying? – vision of the future
Yungblud: “This album is about reclaiming my name and humanising the caricature”
With his upcoming self-titled record – and a new mantra inked on his skin – the Doncaster rocker hits back at the critics, and reaffirms his commitment to “embrace the strange” for his legion of fans
Måneskin: “Nobody is keeping rock’n’roll alive – it’s just impossible to kill”
NME heads to a gladiatorial Roman amphitheatre in Verona to meet the glam superstars
Daniel Johns: “I had anxiety about the future for so long, but realised I was scared of a place that may never exist”
There are no artistic limits for Daniel Johns – not anymore. He talks to NME about ‘FutureNever’, his new solo album and the “purest record” he’s ever made, his days in Silverchair and where he goes from here
Pusha T: “I’ve won the wars. I have withstood everything”
How the Virginia rapper confirmed his place as one of the greats
Tomorrow X Together: “Our fans are always there by our side. That’s why they’re our heroes”
How the winners of Hero of the Year at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 remain humble