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NME’s latest star of The Cover, Dora Jar, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The alt-pop artist is on this week’s (September 2) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of Dora Jar here, written by Kayleigh Watson and featuring photography by Kristen Jan Wong.Accompanying the story is an exclusive playlist of Jar has compiled, titled ‘Songs that swallow me up’, an eclectic collection features Hudson Mohawke, Kara Jackson, The Marias, Tom Waits and more.Listen to the full playlist on Spotify below and on Apple Music.Dora Jar’s appearance on The Cover comes ahead of her debut album ‘No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire’.

NME’s latest star of The Cover, Kanii, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The Washington DC artist is on this week’s (April 8) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of Kanii here, written by Kyann-Sian Williams and featuring photography by Kristen Jan Wong.Accompanying the story is an exclusive playlist of songs Kanii has compiled to flesh out his musical vision of ‘retro-futurism’, featuring Steve Lacy, Hall & Oates, his hero Michael Jackson and more.

NME’s latest stars of The Cover, Rocket, have shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The Los Angeles band are on this week’s (March 18) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read Rocket’s profile here, written by Jonathan Garrett and featuring photography by Kristen Jan Wong.Accompanying the story is an exclusive playlist curated by the band, titled ‘Driving To Band Practice’ and featuring the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Liz Phair, Mercury Rev and more.

Nasty Cherry have released a new single called ‘Lucky’ – you can listen to it below.It comes after the glam-punk outfit teased earlier in the month that they would be “obliterating January with [their] presence”, announcing the arrival of new videos and music.“We got performance videos and new music coming for ya! Spoiler alert – it’s going to be sexy,” they said.On Friday (January 29), the band shared a Kristen Jan Wong-directed video for their new track ‘Lucky’, which is set to land on an upcoming EP due in spring.“‘Lucky’ is a song we wrote for each other during the pandemic where the 6 weeks we got to spend together felt incredibly precious and introspective,” the band said in a statement.