OMGZ! Creation Records head Alan McGee thought Oasis were fascists! What a sillypants. Oasis are only fascist insofar as their defining skill is imitation. MORE »
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OMGZ! Creation Records head Alan McGee thought Oasis were fascists! What a sillypants. Oasis are only fascist insofar as their defining skill is imitation. MORE »
videodrone
Take heart, those of you who fear the imminent demise of the era where people read about music on stapled-and-printed pages: Seven music-related periodicals have made the short list of the Chicago Tribune’s annual “50 Best Magazines” list. MORE »
videodrone
Take heart, those of you who fear the imminent demise of the era where people read about music on stapled-and-printed pages: Seven music-related periodicals have made the short list of the Chicago Tribune’s annual “50 Best Magazines” list. MORE »
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Rivers Cuomo’s “Let’s Write A Sawng” Track Surprisingly Better Than Most Of “Red Album”
The NME is awfully excited about the leaked Weezer track “Turnin’ Turnin’,” which appeared online without warning today. “The backdrop for the YouTube video shows the cover of the band’s recent self-titled album, known as The Red Album, suggesting that the new song may be recent!” Yup, and if they’d checked out Rivers Cuomo’s “Let’s Write A Sawng” Web experiment, they’d know that “Turnin’ Turnin’” is something he and his fan club have been working on for months. Almost as sad as the NME’s lack of awareness is that the song, while lyrically thumbsucky (”You say I should go to school / hey man, back up, cuz you don’t look so cool!”), is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than much of The Red Album. (Remember “Heart Songs?”) Part of its appeal is that the opening arpeggios remind me of Rooney’s “I’m Shakin’,” a song from 2003 that I still can’t believe wasn’t written by Rivers and Co. MORE »
The NME Awards USA Are Not Over For Some
How could we allow this to happen in America? The Klaxons have been accused of keeping an award won by the Arctic Monkeys at the NME Awards USA last month. The Next Big Things behind “Fluorescent Adolescent” couldn’t make it out to the LA event, so a Klaxon and Mark Ronson ambushed the stage when model Agyness Deyn announced the Monkeys had won Best “International” Album, swiping the trophy and shouting “We’re up for it and we’re having a laugh!” When I ask how could this happen in America, I’m not saying we don’t allow people to jump the stage at award shows. I’m noting that an stateside award ceremony controversy involving Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Mark Ronson, and a model named Agyness Deyn obviously breaks the Third Amendment. Throw a Shawn Colvin or a Kanye in that mix, NME, or keep it on your damn island. MORE »
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“NME” Finds A Familiar Future
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who’s contributed to many
of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of the British indie bible NME: MORE »
Lawsuits
Morrissey won a court apology from Word Magazine for suggesting that the author of “Asian Rut” was a racist and a hypocrite. His case against the NME’s similar accusations is still pending. MORE »
So that NME bit on Amy Winehouse maybe guest-starring on Doctor Who was apparently the tabloid’s attempt at an April Fool’s joke, although you’d think that the editors over there would have had their annual “fake story” quota fulfilled by their constant attempts to stoke the “Led Zeppelin reunion… MORE »
“NME” Still Trying To Make Up For That “Led Zeppelin Playing Bonnaroo” Gaffe
Back when the Bonnaroo lineup was announced, the NME plastered its Web site with announcements that Led Zeppelin would be playing the Tennessee festival–an announcement that was occasioned by the press release noting that the all-female Zep tribute band Lez Zeppelin was on the bill. Such are the perils of being the world’s fastest music news service, right? Well, the breathless British tabloid is still convinced that the band will, in fact, play again, despite Robert Plant reportedly turning down a huge reunion-tour payday. And it’s not afraid to take out-of-context quotes from a Led Zeppelin story running in its sister publication Uncut and place them in front of fun-house mirrors for not one story, but two, in order to prove its point. MORE »
