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Music Interviews

Richard Hawley on the loss of Sheffield’s Leadmill: “I’m appealing for the lawmakers of this country to stop this happening again”

"Something very beautiful has been stolen from this city, and nationally," Hawley tells NME. "Who’s going to be next? This can’t be allowed to happen"

Bob Geldof on the ‘Live Aid’ musical and why “the ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Age’ is over”

Check out the new single from the 'Live Aid' musical as Sir Bob asks "why isn’t there a place for politics in music at the moment?" and explains why we'll never see a huge charity night like it again

Dave Rowntree tells us about his new Blur photo book ‘No One You Know’ – and the future of the band

Check out candid photos from the book as the drummer looks back at that "thrilling time" of "just four men in their 20s being really excited by everything that’s going on"

Rico Nasty is ready to inject some hell into the rap world again

Finally having “trimmed the fat” and built herself up from the inside out, Rico Nasty returns with 'Lethal' – a sharpened, genre-defying statement of self, fuelled by every version of her past and a bold new future in acting

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on death, defiance and dick jokes: “I’m very thankful to be alive”

Watch Hoppus tell us about his emotional new memoir 'Fahrenheit-182', via punk escapades, friendships broken and repaired, a Green Day rivalry, getting a little too close to Robert Smith and lessons learned from battling cancer

Matt Maltese on new album ‘Hers’: “The wallowing is disrupted by the comedy”

The singer-songwriter on the most ridiculous lyric on his new record, loving Ethel Cain and Black Country, New Road, and his past obsession with external validation

Jehnny Beth tells us about ‘You Heartbreaker, You’: “I wanted to reconnect with the urge of my time in Savages”

Check out the pummelling new single 'Broken Rib' as Beth tells us about returning from her movie star life, being inspired by life on the road with Queens Of The Stone Age, and her plans for playing before Kneecap at Glastonbury

Inside the “Wallace & Gromit-style” DIY council house studio that bred Sheffield’s weirdest stars

Author Jamie Taylor tells us about new book 'Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, From The Human League To Pulp', the DIY maverick that could have stepped out of a Wes Anderson film, and the Steel City artists carrying that same spirit today

Make way for Vv Pete and her thrillingly international hot-girl club rap

Drill, gqom, baile funk and more course through the DNA of ‘Varvie World’, the Sudanese-Australian artist’s empowering debut mixtape

THE NONE talk tackling “growing up skint” on new single ‘At Hope’ and life after Bloc Party

Kai Whyte and bassist Gordon Moakes tell us about tackling inequality, the mood in Birmingham right now, Kneecap's freedom of expression, and Bloc Party's recent Ivor Novellos win
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