"We’ve been holding her hand through the whole process"The post Elton John on helping Britney Spears return to music: “There’s a lot of fear there” appeared first on NME.

“I came in one day and he’d erased the whole board,” the famed producer said of West’s 2018 albumThe post Mike Dean says Kanye West restarted work on ‘Ye’ just weeks before release appeared first on NME.

If you’re driven to be a truth-teller, you might, at some point, find yourself blacklisted. I’ve only been blacklisted once (that I know of), and it was after I did an interview with a band that went very, very south. I wove what happened into the article — a risk to be sure, and one that was met with both praise and a smidge of in...

Guitarist Bryce Dessner also talks to NME about attracting Swifties and their upcoming All Points East showThe post The National on new music: “It’s the whole history of the band, but with a new exploration” appeared first on NME.

Two year, the legendary producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz turned a vague beat-battle idea into a cultural colossus. The whole idea of the Verzuz battle came out of a single night in 2020, when Timbaland and Swizz had an informal showdown on Instagram Live, taking turns playing their hits and talking good-natured shit. More Verzuz battles follo...