Tears For Fears' 1983 hit "Mad World" is one of the few songs from the synthpop era that has completely escaped from its original context. A lot of that has to do with the haunted, stripped-down version of "Mad World" that Gary Jules and Michael Andrews recorded for the Donny Darko soundtrack in 2001. (The…

"I can be a moron. But my intentions were straightforward and without any agenda"Lily AllenLily Allen has reflected upon the way in which she she ‘apologised on behalf of the UK’ in 2016 after witnessing the appalling conditions for child refugees in the Calais ‘jungle‘ – and the aftermath of ‘violent threats she rec...

"As a woman, I'm not meant to be an angel or a saint or a martyr or to have faultless encyclopaedic answers all the time"Lily Allen at the Mercury Music Prize 2018Lily Allen has written an emotional response to Twitter trolls attempting to silence her, arguing that she refuses “to be bullied or backed into a corner”. Allen ha...

Kasabian once broke up a fight between them in 2007Lily Allen and The Streets' Mike Skinner in 2007Lily Allen has addressed a fight she once had with The Streets‘ Mike Skinner in her new memoir, My Thoughts Exactly. Read more: Lily Allen laid bare – the NME Big Read Back in 2007, Allen spoke of a fight she had with Skinner ba...

Watch our video interview with Shah aboveNadine Shah and Lily AllenNadine Shah has revealed that she’s already at work on her new album – inspired by ‘being a female in her 30s’. Watch our video interview with Shah above. Shah was speaking to NME on the red carpet of last night’s Mercury Music Pr...