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Chad Smith has played drums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. He’s now in his 60s, but even after decades of drumming, Smith continues to tirelessly hit the kit. “I’ve talked to some other players as they get older and they stop playing in between tours or whatever, and they try to crank

Instruments owned by the late Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider are going up for auction. The electronic music pioneer died of cancer, aged 73, in 2020. Now, the equipment and instruments he used to create some of the group’s biggest songs are up for auction, in a sale of almost 500 of his personal possessions by

Slash addressed the viral moment that stemmed from a technical mishapat last week’s Guns N’ Roses concert in Argentina, explaining thatAxl Rose‘s frustrated microphonethrow had nothing to do with drummer Isaac Carpenter or the rest of the band. “Oh, that whole thing, God, it got so blown out of proportion,” the guitaristsaid on a recent

Hemlocke Springs has announced her debut album ‘The Apple Tree Under The Sea’. The North Carolina alt-pop sensation and formerNMECover star is set to release her debut album on February 13 via AWAL – pre-save/pre-order here. Following her support slots with Conan Gray and Chappell Roan, Springs’ debut album is said to confront her traumatic

A 50th anniversary box set of Pink Floyd‘s classic 1975 albumWish You Were Here will arrive just in time for the holidays. TheWish You Were Here 50collection is available in various formats, featuring different track listings,with alternate versions, demos and live recordings from the album’s sessionsandlive performances. You can listen to Pink Floyd’s “The Machine

TWICE have performed at the 2025 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show – check out their performance below. READ MORE:TWICE at 10: “I honestly don’t know how the time flew by so fast” Last night (October 15), the JYP Entertainment K-pop girl group performed at the lingerie brand’s fashion show – but only after their label confirmed

With the release of Blizzard of Ozzon Sept. 12, 1980, Ozzy Osbourne initiated one of the most improbable career comebacks in rock history, silencing scores of unbelievers who felt the former Black Sabbath singer could never make it on his own. Osbournehimself could be considered one of those doubters. Indeed, so low was Osbourne’s self-esteem

NME: Hello Jill. You follow Oasis’ journey chronologically in the new book. Why was this important? Jill Furmanovsky: “Yes, the publishers agreed. I’d suggested it, and then they actually really took it to heart. They charted in the book all the shoots, and they were intensive shoots – especially ’95, ’96, ’97. Virtually everything that

For many musicians, the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap hit close to home because they’d lived out their own versions of the mishaps the fictional titular band struggled with in the movie. Over the years, we’ve collected dozens of Real-Life Spinal Tap Stories. Fittingly, many of themtakeplace onstage,with equipment failures and wardrobe malfunctions, but

Charli XCX has spoken about whether ‘Brat’ is officially over, claiming that it is “up to the world” when it ends. The musician dominated much of the summer of 2024 with her sixth album ‘Brat’, its accompanying remix record and the runaway cultural phenomenon that came with it, with the ubiquitous lime green cover filling

Max Richter has announced details of a seven-date European tour for early 2026 – see all the information below. The acclaimed German-British composer recently brought his celebrated ‘SLEEP’ show to London’s Alexandra Palace and now he has revealed that he will be back on the road in the new year, playing in six different countries.

Def Leppard have been honoured with a star on Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame. The Sheffield rock legends’ star was unveiled on October 9, when the band were also joined by Jon Bon Jovi, who inducted them at the ceremony. Bon Jovi professed, “I was a fan before I became a friend”, adding: “These guys were

Motley Crue kicked off their 2025 Las Vegas residency on Friday with a 13-song blitz through their biggest hits. It was the band’s first show in 11 months and took place the same day Vince Neil revealed that he suffered a stroke last Christmas. The singer told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he had to

The Cure have confirmed they have recorded 13 songs for a new album and are working on the concert film of their Troxy show last year. Intrepid fans of the band have noticed that the bio section on their official website has been updated to bring it up to date with their 2025 activity, including

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Chrissie Hynde has shared a track-by-track guide to her star-studded new covers album, ‘Duets Special’, where she talks about how Brandon Flowers was the “perfect fit” for the project and more. Check it out exclusively onNME below. The new record from thePretenders frontwoman is set to arrive tomorrow (Friday October 17) via Parlophone (pre-order/pre-save here).

Dream Theater made arguably their first official long-form musical epic as a band when they released “A Change of Seasons” in September of 1995. But the 23-minute opus had actually been taking shape long before that. “‘A Change of Seasons’ waswritten originally in 1989 [and] was one of the first things we wrote after When

More tickets have been released for a Bob Dylan show in the UK next month, NME can exclusively share. Find all the details below. The legendary singer-songwriter is due to come to the UK in November, where he’s playing sold-out shows in Swansea, Leeds, Glasgow, Belfast, Killarney and Dublin as part of his 2025 ‘Rough

Sam Fender has spoken to Elton John about their collaboration ‘Talk To You’ and his plans for a new album. The singer-songwriter announced the new single earlier this week and it will be released tomorrow (October 17). John plays piano on the track and it is set to be included on the deluxe edition of

Daft Punk has announced the ‘Human After All Remixes’ 20th anniversary reissue and its first-ever vinyl format. The French house icons will celebrate the anniversary of their chart-topping third record by offering the remix album in vinyl for the first time ever. A limited 2xLP gatefold edition of the ‘Human After All Remixes’ will be