Music Features

Following a period of decline, small music venues are reaffirming the Welsh city’s storied status as a producer of musical talent

R&B loverman who always goes the distance

Watch The Libertines frontman (and his dog Gladys) sit down with NME to look over a huge comeback year and tell us about family life, his record label, the battle for new music, the return of Babyshambles, impersonating Radiohead, and what 2025 has in store

In the year since he left Bring Me The Horizon, Jordan Fish has become the rock and metal world’s new go-to producer. He talks to NME about working with Poppy and Architects, criticism of the ‘Jordan Fish sound’ – and what he makes of the label ‘super-producer’

From monster pop tours to returning rock icons

NME remembers the influential and beloved artists who left us this year

It’s a lost art, but music with cans really puts you in the groove

Musical genius who quite literally changed the world

Pop fandom reached a tipping point of toxicity this year – fuelled by the allure of social media virality and the monetisation of parasocial obsession

At first, the south Londoner dominated the alté world – but now, with a softer Afro-R&B sound and renewed TikTok fame, is he still “alté’s renaissance man”?