THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

time for another new rock revolution.

Music weekly NME has been overtaken by Classic Rock for the first time after the IPC title lost 12% of its circulation in a year.

I shouldn't laugh really, but LOL, awesome.

IPC Ignite publishing director Paul Cheal said NME would be revamped later this year.

"NME magazine sits at the heart of the brand and we are constantly sense checking what readers want and looking to evolve the magazine's content and design," Cheal added.

"With this in mind our editorial team are currently engaged in exciting development work which will come to market later this year."

What are the on, these corporate planks at IPC Ignite?

"exciting development work"

with McNicholas and Krissi Murison in charge ! ha ! a bigger joke than The Wombats and The View

DJ Martian - what would you do to revamp the NME in 2008 to boost sales?

Close it down ! and relaunch Melody Maker ! with a complete new agenda

You position exclamation points in an hypnotic way, djmartian

The spirit of Wyndham Lewis lives.

Melody Maker relaunched with me as editor is an excellent idea, I think.

I thought ILX decided ages ago no one over 30 should be allowed to write for the weeklies?
;)

Um, I think you might be mixing up "ILX" with "The Lex" there Herman...

He will be 30 one day too

"That's what I love about these kids on the bus, man. I get older, they stay the same age." - The Lex

oh snap

I picked up "Classic Rock" for the first time ever today.

Interesting bit of writing on Moby Grape, I have to say.

I can't think of a title like Classic Rock without imagining it being spoken in a Late Great Tommy Vance voice.

The magazine is actually very Tommy Vance. The plus side of it is that the writers seem to be genuinely into what they're writing about, it's not cynical at all, the minus is that some of it is pretty terribly written, though every issue I've ever bought has had one really good piece about some band who never get any props anywhere else - Budgie, or Kansas, people like that. It's one of the very, very few magazines I still pick up and buy, but only twice or three times a year, which is enough.

Conor Mack's current Facebook display photo is of him tied to a chair hanging out with the Mighty Boosh, at least one of whom is wearing "ironic" "pirate" "gear"

It has been since the week before "the Boosh" got their first cover the week beofre series three. Can't remember why I was snooping around his page. He should have it set to private.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/in-the-mix-the-rebirth-of-the-mixtape-866759.html

I owe my life to a mix tape. I was in sixth form in Bradford, and I was aware that there was a world of music beyond Prince and Sting, but I didn't know where to start. I did, however, have one friend called John Shanks who listened to John Peel a lot, and he offered to make me a tape.

It was indie – The Stone Roses, a bit of Primal Scream I'm sure – and one track set my synapses firing – The Charlatans' "The Only One I Know". This was what I'd been hearing on the radio, this was the music I was looking for, and now here it was for me to play again and again.

When I screwed up my A-levels and entry into Cambridge, I was secretly delighted. I applied to Manchester University – I wanted to be in the same city as the Smiths and the Mondays and to go to the Hacienda. While I was screwing up my degree, I DJed, played in bands, ran a small magazine and met my wife. That tape reset my brain. I lost it while I was at university, which is a pity because I'd treasure it now.

Conor McNicholas is the editor of 'NME'

a new generation of music lovers is falling for the romance of the C90

So not an old generation of music lovers whose teenage kids have taught them how to work computers, then

so the secret of Conor Mc's success is to not have a brain? right

He'd been hearing it on the radio but was unaware of what it was/how to get it?

It's important to the publishers that the editor of the NME is someone that is in love with alternative but mainstream music. Stuff that is difficult to find or listen to or understand if all you have is a tape recorder and an old C90.

Don't IPC pay him enough that he has to go prostituting himself in broadsheets all across the land?

MEMO TO ALL MUSIC WRITERS*: NO MORE MEMOIRS OF MIXTAPES OR ANYTHING ELSE TO DO WITH YOUR FUCKING MEDIOCRE PAST

*exceptions subject to my discretion

I mean you didn't have Percy Dickins going on about his mixtapes back in the day when the NME was a world renowned etc. did you?

As I mentioned on my blog, there's 158 songs in this article, and none of them are rap music. This is just two weeks after the Indie was full of "People who don't like rap music - GET WITH THE PROGRAM GRANDAD" articles in celebration of Jaz-O's weed carrier headling some music festival or other.

Broadsheets don't like blogs, you know that. Why, there was a four-page lead piece about it in the Observer Review yesterday.

Also, they only pretend to like hip hop for a week at a time. Knife crime shock horror youth cult probe innit.

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yeah, they really needed to do two of those

probably couldn't guarantee KOL availability so had to have back-up

Mighty Boosh can always be relied upon to be unfunny in whichever publication comes calling.

which one did grout get?!?!

Obviously there is no crossover between Mighty Boosh fans and Kings of Leon fans in the NME's readership.

"It's weird when everybody loves you ..."

How would they know?

"Heather Mills reviews the singles of the year" if I read that right. OMG, rushing out to buy my copy now!

don't forget that Lily Allen wants babies

My Indie Christmas TV Guide? Why, thank you.

OH MY GOD THE FUCKING DOTS.

OH MY GOD THE FUCKING DOTS DOLTS.

also features Charlie Brooker, Bloc Party and Oasis

When did the NME start using the same design fonts as the supermarket tabloids? Those covers are ugly and cluttered. I remember when they used to actually be well designed.

http://www.visi.com/fall/news/pics/81nov14_nme/81nov14_nme-cover.jpg

Do they just not care anymore?

that's got it's flaws too e.g. if i was Costello i'd be annoyed

How would not changing their fonts in 30 years = "caring"?

One's a paper for adults and one's for kids - there's really not much more to it than that

snmesh hits

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def contender for worst strapline ever

there is not a single appealing thing on that cover

Is Skins the British OC? God I hope it is