THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

it would be like the dandy where old people mourn old nme that hasnt existed in a long time

It's probably a conflation of 'mainstream rock music is dead' with 'print media is dead' but you'd think they'd have more ideas than that.

oh my god is that cobain cover real

classic Libertines!

matt maybe its actually selling more now than it was?

Then that doesn't reflect well on the current state of its core stamping ground then does it?

more its readership

You make it sound like these things are completely unconnected.

current state of its core stamping ground

England?

"Voice of a generation" - whose generation? I thought I was the tail end of the Nirvana generation (liked them but was too young to see them live) and I don't think my generation or the one above is really of much interest to the Nirvana readership; we're their parents and the boring office workers who clog up the buses at 8:30am when they go to school/college, surely?

I mean looking at that list maybe it is just selling to people a few years older than me who want to read about the Stone Roses for the billionth time, but... who are these people and did they not stop buying it a decade ago when it went Kerrang!-sized and the remaining 80 words per page became (possibly thankfully) unreadable due to being printed in e.g. hot pink on a red background?

idk there will always be rock revivals

it is dead but will never die

i literally have no idea what class sixth formers + northern ppl listen to any more

/middle/ class

what about lower class and upper class?

article in today's metro abt this:

http://www.metro.co.uk/music/913247-nme-celebrates-60th-birthday-but-can-it-reclaim-its-former-glory

There's no equivalent list of Kerrang covers but my guess would be they'd provide a much better picture of commercially successful rock music in 2012.

in london anyway, working class kids tend to be more into 'urban'/dance or whatever

provinces + north 'indie'/rock has/had full spectrum dominance but again idk what music exactly the kids listen to these days

is it just like the vaccines + maybe odd future or something

kids i know seem to be mostly emo metal or mersh hip hop/r and b stuff

i don't really remember anyone into metal when i were a lad but then that was in era when papa roach ruled metal

also i guess every british thread shouldn't be about racism + class factionalism + general resentment/bitterness/stupidity but there was an awful lot of rhetoric towards rap/garage etc that could be described as crypto-racist in the same way as david laws could be described as a crypto-tory

i kinda imagine this might have improved in the last decade

This week's is very, very bad and features the worst picture of Cobain I think I have ever seen.

pic?

http://static.nme.com/images/13910_171007_NMECoverCMA3Nirvana100913.jpg

I have approx 250 words in it. Haven't read anything else in there yet, though.

ok that is a shitty photo

surprisingly good teeth i thought

He's American.

teeth too pretty to die young

anyhow, it looks like they have serious problems if M.I.A. is the newest artist mentioned on their front cover

change that '20 years' to '10 years' and the 'new' in nme makes some sense again.

on every nme cover ever: "Pete Doherty's back and up to his old tricks"

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/24/nme-experiment-online-charge

Lol no way is that going to work, you're talking literally the most entitled readership ever.

But it's "30p cheaper than one of the San Fransisco band's singles on iTunes."

Print circulation of the 62-year-old indie bible fell to 20,011 in the first half of this year, down from 56,284 five years ago, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures. Visits to its website, however, have rocketed to an estimated 8 million users a month.

20,000 a week isn't very much.

If they're starting to go down the online payment route then how long until the papermag stops getting published?

http://www.musicweek.com/_media/images/NME_Relaunch_Bowie.jpg

http://cdn.umg3.net/lanadelrey/images/sized/cdn/images/uploads/NME_Cover-597x739.jpg

no matter how hard she tries she still can't manage any look other than "boring and sullen"

Quite like the design of that new cover (although it's basically The Face) but that's a terrifying picture of Bowie.

***about BOXCAR time*** is so horrible my toes are still curled up in embarrassment for the sub

at least they didn't spell it 'MVSIC'

'Why don't you call yourself New Mojo Express and just be done with it?'

the nme typeface bit looks nice. If there really are more reviews I might even read it in the co-op next time im in.

also ldr has her tongue out. Miley copying her?

look at the bottom left of the pic

other way around, LDR copying Miley...

such an embarrassment, this rag

Difficult to say which is the bolder innovator in that regard.

"January 2012" ?