
NME’s most anticipated album releases of 2025
This year brings new records from FKA Twigs, The Weeknd, Sam Fender, Lana Del Rey and many more

Courting tell us about their mouthful of a new album: "We've balance our love of pop songs and more experimental stuff"
Check out new single 'Pause At You' and details of their 2025 UK tour as frontman Sean Murphy-O'Neill tells us about 'Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’", and living in two different worlds

“They taught me what it means to move someone’s heart with music”: artists on the impact and influence of Oasis
As the Gallaghers’ big reunion gathers pace, 15 artists from around the world tell NME about their relationship with Oasis

Reading Festival 2024: the most magical moments of summer’s last big blowout
From Lana to Liam and Fontaines to Fred Again.., Reading & Leeds 2024 was one of the books. These are the moments that hit the hardest

Courting cover Oasis' 'Don't Look Back In Anger' at Reading Festival 2024
The choice cover of the classic anthem comes after Liam fuelled rumours of an Oasis reunion at Leeds Festival

Courting and The Cribs on collaborating and today's indie scene: “We’ve entered an era of bands not taking themselves so seriously”
The band and The Jarman brothers on making the ambitious 'New Last Name', and shaking off comparisons to The 1975

Listen to Courting's cover of Olivia Rodrigo's 'Bad Idea Right?'
The Liverpool band put an indie spin on the pop star's riotous hit

Courting – 'New Last Name' review: taking rock to new extremes
The production on the Liverpool band's second LP is perpetually in motion: both ambitious and scattershot at once

Courting live in Liverpool: rock's newest heroes on comically good form
Dressed in their finery, the Merseyside gang deliver a thrilling show that's big, clever and funny as fuck

Listen to Courting's hyper cover of Charli XCX and Icona Pop's 'I Love It'
"It is silly, shouty, faithful, and a mere drop of water in the ocean of how much we adore Charli XCX"