Elizabeth Aubrey

BTS-mania hit London on Saturday as the K-pop marvels performed the first of two sold-out Wembley Stadium gigs. Screams from the teenage BTS Army reverberated throughout in this no-expense-spared show. The septet nod to all the great boybands of yesteryear, ...

The setting for Carly Rae Jepsen’s first headline London show in four years could hardly have been more intimate as she played the 800-capacity XOYO in Shoreditch last night. For her cult fan following, the opportunity to see Jepsen up ...

Ryan Bingham is just hours away from playing a sold-out, headline slot at London’s Union Chapel. “It’s certainly been a hell of a ride getting here,” he laughs, reflecting on how special the venue is to him: he says he ...

The last episode of Game of Thrones has aired and reactions are coming in to what has proven a divisive final episode for many. Earlier in the evening, cast members were bidding farewell to the show on social media whilst ...

What's so great about Britain?” slowthai snarls on the title track of his provocative debut. Via candid anecdotes and evocative storytelling, he explores the division and deprivation of Brexit Britain through a highly critical lens. The Northamptonian’s sound is uniquely ...

As statements of intent go, “Hell Song” is fierce and dives, Faustian like, into an immediate exploration of desire at odds with the protagonist’s faith. “That was just super, super, vulnerable sexually,” Collard tells me of the song, a track ...

Jamie Lou Stenzel greets me enthusiastically in the boardroom of her record label, a lightbulb smile beaming ear-to-ear. At 16-years-old, Au/Ra , as Stenzel is known professionally, is one of the youngest on the label’s roster. We’re surrounded by images ...

When Bazil Meade MBE founded the London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) with three other people in 1982, he had no idea how popular the choir would become – nor did he expect LCGC would one day be celebrating its 35th ...

Cinema’s fascination with pop music resulted in high-profile Oscar wins for A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody earlier this year – and the fascination certainly shows no signs of slowing. More music biopics are expected – Rocketman is released ...

With a vocal style once described as “the voice of a saint trapped in a glass harp”, Dolores O’Riordan tore through boundaries for women in rock music in the 90s. News of her tragic death in January 2018 left the ...

For many seasoned actors, a major role in a film or television series usually results in intense preparation, with work often spanning many weeks or even months. Yet for teenager Esmé Creed-Miles, preparation for her titular role in Amazon Video’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...