Elizabeth Aubrey

Brighton rockers Black Honey are a band of dandy dreamers living the DIY dream on a shoestring – but the album they’re working on, with strings and horns and ‘Parisian noir’ inspiration – sees them reaching for the sky. As they play NME’s Girls To The Front, Elizabeth Aubrey meets them to hear how ADHD, Billie Eilish and a hatred of the pop world forged their sound and fuels their work. PICTURES: Chloe Hashemi Izzy Baxter-Phillips is shouting in the basement of London’s Shacklewell Arms, an hou

Actor Jessie Buckley wasn’t a country fan before Wild Rose, the film in which she plays 23-year-old Rose-Lynn, a Glaswegian single mum with a dream of being Nashville’s next big country star...

After 27 years and six No 1 albums, you don’t necessarily expect dance duo The Chemical Brothers to shake things up. Nevertheless, their ninth record sounds like a reconnection with clubland as they dispense with the big-name vocalists and focus on momentous beats and a new-found manic energy. Pummelling tunes like Free Yourself, Got to Keep On, and MAH (Mad as Hell) were road-tested at Alexandra Palace last year and seem primed to become live fixtures. While there are fruitful collaborations w

Seven years after signing to Asylum Records — also home to Ed Sheeran and Charli XCX — Mahalia Burkmar earned a superstar welcome as she took to the stage at a sold-out Shepherd’s Bush Empire show. It was a poignant moment. Still only 20, Leicester-born Mahalia was 13 when she signed a record deal amid a wave of hype and early comparisons to Erykah Badu. Yet in the intervening years, mainstream success has largely eluded her. After two busy years that have seen Mahalia step up to larger venues

It’s been a whirlwind few years for Icelandic artist Sara Pètursdóttir aka Glowie, one of the musicians who performed at NME’s third Girls to the Front event at London’s Shacklewell Arms last night....

As stage entrances go, Donald Glover — aka Childish Gambino — certainly achieved a dramatic one last night at the O2 Arena...

It has has been five years since Jenny Lewis’s last album, The Voyager, earned praise for its soul-baring realism. A tumultuous time for the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman, it dealt with everything from the break-up of her band to struggles with depression; it also explored her fractured relationship with her father — and his subsequent death. Life hasn’t been much kinder to Lewis in the ensuing years; she’s lost her mother to cancer, split with her partner of 12 years and has spoken out in suppo

These New Puritans have made a career out of difference, often pushing the sonic senses of listeners to extremes as they delve into the deconstructed, the abstract and the obscure. “I want music that sharpens you,” TNPs’ Jack Barnett said in a recent interview, adding that music should “amplify your nervous system.” The description couldn’t be more apt for Inside the Rose, their first LP since 2013’s Field of Reeds...

It’s an unseasonably hot February day in London, spring having seemingly sprung weeks ahead of schedule. “Is it always like this?” Tamino Moharam Fouad – better known as Tamino – enquires, as we sit in a quiet café overlooking London’s hazy, sun-drenched skyline...

For years, Angel-Ho has worked in both the music and art industry as a highly regarded DJ, music producer and founder of the NON Worldwide collective – an experimental underground record label, art project and network dedicated to working with artists of the African diaspora...

The opening to Jack Savoretti’s sixth studio album could easily be the soundtrack to an Italian film from the Sixties. Italian influences indeed abound, thanks to his own heritage and the chance to record this album at composer Ennio Morricone’s Rome studio...

Twenty One Pilots’ Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun began the first of three sold-out nights at the Wembley SSE Arena last night with the typical boundless energy and enthusiasm that has afforded them cult status among their devoted young fan base...

Sigrid Raabe, at 22, is a very millennial kind of pop star. Make-up-free, typically dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, the Norwegian singer looks like she should be breezing around the office of a hip tech start-up rather than centre stage everywhere from Glastonbury to the Nobel Peace Prize concert. There’s no diva preening in her songs, which often feature requests to be respected for who she is. “Can I be basic with you?” she requests of a lover on the airy synthpop of Basic. Her roaring breakt

Jessica Pratt’s sound recalls another era, evoking the New York coffee shops inhabited by Joan Baez in the 60s, or the hazy, free-loving folk festivals of the 70s. Yet her relevance still feels timely, her expansive thoughts resonating loudly with a generation struggling to find meaning amidst the relentless racket of modern life.

From THAT Jack Whitehall "joke" to Beyoncé and Jay Z posing in front of a Meghan Markle portrait and Matty Healy calling out the patriarchy, here's all the best talking points from this year's awards...

Considering Ariana Grande is now de facto the most powerful force on Planet Pop, there is something disarmingly fragile about the 12 songs collected on thank u, next. They’re silken and soft, all pulses and chimes, sweet like pillow talk. “Lately I’ve been on a roller coaster / Tryna get a hold of my emotions,” she discloses on needy. But do not mistake a confession of vulnerability for weakness. The song has something in common with Cardi B’s Be Careful, which also reclaimed a supposedly negat

A decade after their return as a touring act, The Specials are a depleted force for their first album in 38 years to feature original vocalist Terry Hall. Death, illness and internal arguments have left them with only three original members — Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter. Founder Jerry Dammers has steered clear of the reunion...

It’s hard to resolve that Hamzaa, opening to a sold-out Omeara audience yesterday evening, has only just turned 20. It’s rare to see such confidence and soulful vocal precision from an artist so young, but Hamzaa has both in abundance...

We spoke to Lukas Nelson, son of Willie, bandleader and member of Neil Young's group – about his songwriting work for 'A Star is Born' and his forthcoming album release...

An underground acid house fanzine that documented Tony Wilson’s iconic Haçienda nightclub is being compiled into an anthology and released for the first time...