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NME's Top 50 albums of 2015

It’s the season for year-end lists, and they just keep rolling in. Now longrunning (and now free) UK weekly NME has joined the party, going with Grimes‘ Art Angels at #1 on their top 50 albums of 2015 list (she also topped Gorilla vs…

UK music mag 'NME' becoming a free weekly

In the face of decline print sales/subsciptions, long-running UK music weekly New Musical Express is entering a new era, becoming a free publication after 63 years…

NME's Top 50 albums & tracks of 2014

It’s the last week of November and we’ve hit Best-of List Season. Especially in the UK where we’ve already seen album lists from Rough Trade, MOJO, Q, and Uncut…

100 Most Influential Artists, according to NME

“There was a certain amount of science to it. An entire week of work experience students left the office thinking that cutting-edge music journalism in 2014 mostly involves calculating which bands have been mentioned most in NME in the past two years, then hunting out references to the bands that influenced those acts online and finally adding up the number of times each influence came up…

NME owner's Time was spun off by Time Warner who might be making a big investment in VICE

Music magazines NME and UNCUT are owned who also own Time, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, LIFE, a whole bunch of magazines about hunting, and a ton of other titles too…

renowned C86 cassette compilation receives 72-track reissue

Slicing Up Eyeballs reports that NME‘s celebrated C86 cassette compilation will receive a massive reissue treatment. UK label Cherry Red plan to release an expanded edition on June 9, which will spread 72-songs over three CDs…

NME names its Top 50 LPs & tracks of 2013 (guess who's #1?)

UK music weekly NME has just published its end-of-year issue, with their Top 50 LPs and Tracks of 2013. As for the albums list, we’ll let you read on to find out what their #1 pick is, but it might just be the one NME called “absolutely and unarguably the most incredible album of career” and “the greatest record of the last dec…

Jack White is pissed at NME, not a Lady Gaga hater

Jack White @ ACL 2012 (more by Glen Brown) PRESS RELEASE:Jack White has issued the following statement to correct an excerpt from his upcoming cover story in British Esquire that was taken completely out of context–and actually edited to change its original meaning–in an NME…

Palma Violets made NME's #1 track of 2012, ready debut album and first-ever North American tour (dates, streams)

What we’re all falling in love with in here is a sound centred around echo-laden guitars, Spiritualized-style Farfisa organ and basslines picking out instantly euphoric, simple chord sequences…

WATCH: Artists tell their favorite 2012 albums (Bat for Lashes pick Alt-J who pick Polica, etc)

It’s that time of year already I guess. NME quizzed a whole bunch of artists about their favorite album of the year. Bat For Lashes chose Alt-J who recently won the Mercury Prize and who chose Polica as their favorite…
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