Ezra Koenig has always insisted that Time Crisis, his conversational “online radio show” on Apple Music, is not a podcast, despite that show’s big podcast energy. Now, with Vampire Weekend readying new album Only God Was Above Us, Koenig and bandmates Chris Baio and Chris Tomson have released the first episode of Va...

"Professional treatment helped me to regain my grip on reality and fully recover" The post Cage The Elephant’s Matt Shultz opens up about “mental health crisis” that led to his arrest last year appeared first on NME.

In January of last year, Cage The Elephant singer Matthew Shultz was arrested for illegal gun possession. Two loaded guns had been found by police in his NYC hotel room, along with Polaroids of them and handwritten notes, one of which said, “I will protect myself if I am attacked.” In June, he avoided jail time by taking a plea deal ...

In the UK, each generation is uniquely defined by its artists. We depend on them to translate the woes of modern life into cultural criticism, satire or a cathartic escape from existence on an island plagued by rain 170 days of the year. Life can be bleak, but it’s always been soundtracked by a handful […]The post How the rental cris...

As AIsis release a record featuring a computer-generated Liam Gallagher, NME envisions a sonic future of man vs machine, where creativity winsThe post In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ordinary appeared first on NME.