also who the heck were the Distillers?
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
what the NME are proposing is very similar to Ireland's Hot Press magazine that has existed in that format for decades. However as Ireland is dominated by Dublin and has a much smaller population than the UK - it's much more easier to reflect music / culture / society.
Hot Presshttp://www.hotpress.com/
about:http://www.hotpress.com/1278263.html
For over 30 years, Hot Press has consistently rattled the cages of Irish society and broken exciting new ground in contemporary journalism. With an abiding commitment to music at its core, it remains the essential guide to rock, pop, dance and all the best in contemporary music, both nationally and internationally. That means the big names, of course, from U2 to DJ Shadow, but it also means the first coverage of new acts who might one day make big waves of their own.
But Hot Press is also about more than music. Its current affairs, cinema, sport, humour, books, fashion, politics, sex – everything that matters – receive the inimitable Hot Press treatment every fortnight. And in January 2008, an entire issue was devoted to the problem of drugs in Irish society – looking at all angles, from the point of view of the dealers, gardai, politicians and the addicts and their families.
In addition, The Hot Press Interview (much imitated, never equalled) has become a national institution, with a well-deserved reputation for being the most rigorous, incisive and talked-about forum in Irish journalism, as everyone – from UN human rights ambassador Mary Robinson to maverick novelist Will Self, from disgraced politico Charles Haughey to chameleon thespian John Cusack, and from model humanitarian Christy Turlington to Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams – will attest.
Through all of this, one constant remains: Hot Press is a writers' paper, with a thorough commitment to giving space to quality journalism: stuff that's sharp, smart, witty, informed, and, above all, written with style.
That commitment has also been carried through to Hotpress.com, making Ireland's finest music and pop-culture magazine available all over the world – at the press of a button! In addition to the staple Hot Press diet, hotpress.com offers new music to investigate, pop videos to watch, video interviews with a host of Irish and international artists to view, competitions, message boards, the indispensable Hot Press Industry Directory online in full, and the Hot Press Archive – our unrivalled collection of great writing and resource material, going back almost 30 years
Incisive and irreverent...humorous and challenging...sometimes controversial, frequently provocative, always a great read...and with hotpress.com fully interactive – now that you're with us, why not get involved, and become one of the growing Hot Press community!
Hot Press - wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Press
― djmartian, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
The Distillers were an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1998.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Distillers
― djmartian, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
fronted by Brody Dalle, shouty angry punk singer, black hair, covered in tattoos, can't recall any of their tracks, not my thang - was covered by kerrang alot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brody_Dalle
Dalle married Tim Armstrong, frontman of Rancid, in 1997 when she was 18. The couple divorced in 2003. Their divorce inspired some of Armstrong's lyrics on Rancid's 2003 album, Indestructible. After they divorced, Brody reverted to using the surname of her favourite actress, Béatrice Dalle, best known for Betty Blue. Dalle has had seven surnames since birth. In 2004 Dalle was re-united with her half sister Morgana Robinson, when the two met at a Distillers show. They share a father, who now lives "in Leeds or some shit".[10]Dalle married Josh Homme in 2007. They had their first child, Camille Harley Joan Homme, on 17 January 2006. On 12 August 2011, Dalle gave birth to her second child, a baby boy, named Orrin Ryder Homme. The couple lives in Palm Springs, California.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, c'mon keep up!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
the chick from Sourpuss's new band iirc
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
Who was it this week? I know last week was The Libertines (fair enough, new album, playing Glastonbury, etc)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link
this week,
Who killed Amy?https://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine
tie in with the film
front coverhttps://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine/photos/a.499102104166.300902.9577714166/10154022832309167/?type=1&theaternotice angry facebook comments
― djmartian, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
An interesting train of thoughthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought
― anvil, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/photos/nsfw-50-of-the-most-eye-poppingly-filthy-lyrics-ever/369707?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=filthylyrics
Scroll down to the entry for Chuck Berry's My Ding-A-Ling.
They put a picture of Little Richard.
Well done.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
And that's from February. And still up. Maybe it's been discussed here already. Good grief.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
i saw that on the kulks fb too. quite astonishing and apparently lots commented on the article at the time and on twitter as well yet they didn't change it.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
It's just baffling.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:31 (eight years ago) link
It's easy to make a mistake, and there's any number of ways it could have happened - jnr staff member sourcing images for free from wherever, finds something incorrectly tagged, doesn't know any better - and that's OK, mistakes happen. But not to fix it?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
Agreed. They just dont give a fuck
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
NME goes free, world shrugs
or, in the case of the irish times, publishes a 'think' 'piece', which is hardly shrugging, is it?
― you throw darts like a lesser man and owe me cash (stevie), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
There have been shitloads of thinkpieces. Well, a few.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
Similar to the Chuck Berry and Little Richard mistake. I saw this last month that made me laugh. The entry for Teen Wolf Too. This time it's the text that has the error.
http://www.nme.com/photos/10-terrible-comedy-sequels-which-make-us-look-back-and-cringe/366343#/photo/1
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar is on the front cover of the NME this weekhttps://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine/photos/a.499102104166.300902.9577714166/10154039186974167/?type=1&theater
― djmartian, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
About fucking time, but cringing at the way they've led with the B*****s mention
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
xp
cover says £2.50, when does it start being free?
― soref, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
september
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
That's a great cover.
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 08:30 (eight years ago) link
So this week will be the last ever paid for issue of NME. or as the NME state "the first chapter" ends. re 1952 - 2015
NME magazine: front coverhttps://www.facebook.com/nmemagazine/photos/a.499102104166.300902.9577714166/10154076158264167/?type=1&theater
Bumper 132 pages "Massive Collectors Issue" looking back on the history of NME. with a price tag of £3.50
The NME are also asking what is your favourite NME cover? 50 choiceshttp://www.nme.com/ratemy/383583/what-s-your-favourite-ever-nme-cover
There then will be a break in publishing the NME until 18th September. Presumably to give staff and the editor time to produce a few dummy copies of the new look magazine. Whilst carrying on with new updates on the website / twitter / facebook / email newsletter etc. There is a lot of celebrity lite Buzzfeed type trash on the NME facebook feed.
The last time there was a break in publishing the NME was due ta a NUJ strike in 1984, you'd have to ask Uncle Sinker about the details.
NME list of covershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NME_covers
1984
NME was not published in June and July this year due to a NUJ strike.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
Predictably boring/same old shit selection of covers in that farewell montage.
― everything, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
do you mean the final front cover? i wouldn't say PJ Harvey, MIA and Public Enemy was the same old shit if so.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
FREE NME available everywhere *not including Scotland or Wales, South West England...http://i.imgur.com/LoOR6D6.png
http://www.nme.com/map
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 17 September 2015 14:53 (eight years ago) link
When?
Will London get them a day early like before?
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
Why not as its the only place you can get it!
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yJcdrcW.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/jQOgGvV.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/mam5KJ6.png
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
seriously, i have to make a trip to topman in the shopping centre if i want to read the nme now?
xp bunch of whiners, oh wait
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
from Cosmic Slop's map:
Head84 The Mall, Golden Square Shopping Centre, Warrington
promisingly, this place went out of business last week
― soref, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I LIKE WHITE GUYS PLAYING GUITARS!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! RHIANNA ISN'T REAL MUSIC!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! WHAT'S THIS, NME!? WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! YOU'VE LET ME DOWN YOU'RE MEANT TO BE ABOUT WHITE GUYS PLAYING GUITARS!!! I'M COMPARING NME WITH SMASH HITS AND CLEARLY I NEVER READ A SINGLE FUCKING ISSUE!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! NOEL GALLAGHER THE LIBERTINES ARCTIC MONKEYS OASIS THE STROKES!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
― Turrican, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I'M GLAD I LIVED THROUGH THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHERE NME WAS ALL ABOUT PROPER MUSIC AND REAL WHITE GUYS PLAYING GUITARS AND MUSIC WAS SO MUCH BETTER BECAUSE IT WAS REAL MUSIC NOT THIS CRAP POP DANCE CRAP!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! YOU'RE SO HIPSTER, NME! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
― Turrican, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
There was someone on there complaining about the rihanna cover but also about the amount of morrissey/arctic monkeys/libertines/oasis covers. Maybe the NME isnt for them?
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
just do what my pal is doing and post the spice girls cover when people post about how nme was great in the britpop era and never covered "manufactured pop music"
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
NME is dead.XFM is dead.There's nothing left to live for.
^this guy is taking the piss, surely?
― soref, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
Looks like it is Friday's NME will come out
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
Gotta get down (London) on Friday
― Turrican, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
"A great man once said to me he loves all music from A to Z... Abba to Zappa" clearly the best bit of that sheet of nitwit flypaper above
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
hearty lols @ nitwit flypaper
― feargal czukay (NickB), Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
well, I will get one tomorrow thanks to being in LDN tomoz, will wait until I see what is INSIDE!
But it does sound like what happened when Zigzag became a free mag back in the nineties, two issues?
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
I doubt the advertisers will be pleased that large parts of the UK wont be able to get it.
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
XFM is dead? :-O
(A: even worse)
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Friday, 18 September 2015 03:45 (eight years ago) link
tbf XFM already died once in 1998
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 18 September 2015 08:22 (eight years ago) link
Love the guy going "I remember when it was all Suede, Pulp, Mansun on the cover", who has presumably blocked out the Spice Girls and Robbie Williams covers from the same era.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 September 2015 09:17 (eight years ago) link
I guess, for being the first of this new method, the 1st front cover acts as a mission statement.
― Mark G, Friday, 18 September 2015 09:52 (eight years ago) link
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cornelius Cardew or gtfo imo
― called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 18 September 2015 10:16 (eight years ago) link