“SXSW was bizarre because we would play and look out at the crowd and it was a bunch of people who looked like my dad’s age or older, moving like that,” Horsegirl guitarist and singer Penelope Lowenstein recalls, recreating a languid head-nodding as her. bandmates laugh either side of her. “Of course, we really appreciate…
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The Music Venue Trust (MVT) have announced Music Venue Properties – a groundbreaking new initiative which will involve purchasing the freehold of grassroots music venues across the UK. READ MORE: If Sheffield’s Leadmill – the venue that helped break Arctic Monkeys – closes, we all lose something. As a Charitable Community Benefit Society (CCBS), Music…
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I‘ma Velma main. Instead of using punches and kicks to take down foes, I spout bubbles of sass and collect evidence in order to unmask them. And when I’ve got enough clues, I reveal their true identity and send them barrelling off the map with a police escort. Such intricate, character-driven stories sound unlikely in…
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It’s roughly two weeks before the release of Stranger Things season four and the cast are chatting to NME via video call, swapping stories for our entertainment. They’re currently picking their fave lines from the new episodes. “Mine’s: ‘That’s a lot of Ricks’,” says Maya Hawke, who plays ice cream-slinging teen Robin in the hit…
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The first thing we’re shown is a flyover of the new Saint’s Row‘s Santo Ileso, “a dense open-world that rewards exploration”, split into nine districts. Gangs lift tire-weights on street corners and party around souped-up cars, and a ferris wheel hangs slanted on the outskirts. The Saints don’t exist at the game’s opening, we’re told,…
The problem with being a few hundred years old, and an undead vampire with vast wealth and influence, is that a lot of people want to kill you. It’s a fact of daily un-life for the heroes of Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong, Big Bad Wolf’s hybrid tabletop RPG and adventure game, but their cursed…
Doechii is “meant to blow up like the white things and soda rockets”, to quote the dexterous wordplay at the heart of her breakthrough single, ‘Yucky Blucky Fruitcake’. Released two years ago as part of a fantastical, Dr Seuss-inspired EP titled ‘Oh The Places You’ll Go’, it caught the ear of Top Dawg Entertainment; the…
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Almost a year after the launch of their COVID-19 relief program for shuttered music venues, The US Small Business Administration is facing more than 60 lawsuits from business owners. With litigation pending and venues still dealing with show cancellations, health risks, and revenue loss due to the ongoing pandemic, NME spoke to concert promoters, the…
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Imagic, if you will, that the Paradox offices in Stockholm are a giant space cruiser. After light-years of peaceful travel, the crew are suddenly startled by the warning signs of imminent attack flashing on every monitor. There’s no time for goodbyes, so what’s the one item grand strategy Stellaris‘ new game director Stephen Muray grabs…
