United Kingdom
Journalist, editor, copywriter.
Words past + present: The Guardian, NME, Guitar + more. Email: huwbaines@gmail.com
Emerging from Cork with a debut album that embraces emotional ambiguity and granular storytelling, Cardinals won't be pigeonholed as just another Irish band
The band's melodic new indie-punk album seems a change of pace. But it can't mask the frontman's brutal honesty. He talks about childhood trauma - and partying with Post Malone
Snarling, genre-mashing Austin quartet Die Spitz are the most exciting new rock band on the planet, and they're doing everything their way
Dry Cleaning's Tom Dowse picks out his five formative guitar influences - but don't expect Le Bon to be spinning any mathcore any time soon...
Bryan Garris speaks to NME about Knocked Loose's banner 2024 and why sticking up for hardcore values feels like second nature to them.
They've spent years toying with journalists, using fake names or sending actors to interviews. Now the ad guy behind the elusive Detroit band lifts the lid on the Armed multiverse
Keith Morris is annoyed with himself. It’s just after nine on a Monday morning in Los Angeles and he is still in bed, having missed an email confirming our interview. “I'm seven minutes late,” he grumbles. “Normally, I'll be the first guy to the party.”
As Patti Smith's debut single turns 50, punk musicians and music writers pick the songs that define the genre's resistance, rebellion and refusal
at Flynn's scream of "U-S-M-A!" hangs in the air at the Underworld in Camden, London. A guy in a billowing white T-shirt dives from the stage and is held aloft by the crowd - a typically energetic snapshot from a hardcore show. Except that, on this occasion, it's not all that typical.