NME ceases publication of print edition.

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by Skarjo » Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:14 pm

Shite mag for shite listeners of shite music.

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by OrangeRKN » Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:22 pm

I never bought a copy but I'm still sad to see it go :(

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by Moggy » Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:23 pm

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by Vermilion » Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:29 pm

Ad7 wrote:I hate NME, absolute pretentious hipster wank.


Yep, certainly is.

Last time i looked at a copy, it reminded me of this...


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by more heat than light » Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:32 pm

Skarjo wrote:Shite mag for shite listeners of shite music.


Well that certainly is an opinion.

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by Floex » Wed Mar 07, 2018 2:51 pm

I was kinda hopeful for it when it became a free, a little commute and read up on some new music to checkout. Turns out it was a magazine purely aimed at teenagers who probably get all their music through online outlets. It never really found a market.

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PostRe: NME Magazine to be free from September
by jawafour » Wed Mar 07, 2018 3:08 pm

Dang, its a sad situation for magazines and papers. As I said about gaming mags recently, journalism has been hugely devalued in most people's eyes; they won't pay for it and younger folk are growing up thinking that reporting should be free.

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by Skarjo » Wed Mar 07, 2018 3:11 pm

more heat than light wrote:
Skarjo wrote:Shite mag for shite listeners of shite music.


Well that certainly is an opinion.


(They hated my Linkin Park/Mandy Moore mashup, the snobs)

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by Lex-Man » Wed Mar 07, 2018 3:57 pm

It got worse when they made it free, well at least according to my brother. Basically they dropped any coverage about unsigned, small label stuff and just concentrated on the biggest artists to try and get people to read it for free. That said before they went free they were being murdered by unpaid bloggers who were doing a better job covering the music scene in the UK anyway.

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by Skarjo » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:20 pm

I mean, print mags like that had it coming once the internet became a thing.

I remember getting onto the old MTV2 forums waaaaaaay back in the day, and even the music channel, that ran 24 hours a day, couldn't compete with the sheer volume and passion of the new music being shared on it's own forums.

Of course, mainstream media journalism still has a place, but 'arbiters of taste' are (rightly) dying out.

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PostRe: NME ceases publication of print edition.
by Tineash » Wed Mar 07, 2018 5:01 pm

NME? By wankers, for wankers.

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by Lex-Man » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:59 pm

I get the feeling NME was probably amazing but it a era prior to the one I grew up in. But from what I read it was pretty horrible.

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by Rex Kramer » Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:34 pm

I seem to remember it being relatively decent in the early nineties (I used to alternate between that and Melody Maker depending on the content).

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by Lex-Man » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:23 pm

Rex Kramer wrote:I seem to remember it being relatively decent in the early nineties (I used to alternate between that and Melody Maker depending on the content).


I picked up a couple of issues in the late 90's and thought it was dire, the same with the free version. It was pretty much all adverts.

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by Victor Mildew » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:26 pm

NME - GET YOUR GAME OF THRONES CLICKBAIT RIGHT HERE

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PostRe: NME ceases publication of print edition.
by Green Gecko » Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:22 am

Save the trees.

Local bloggers and web mags and pretty much flyers seem do a fair job of promoting talent. who needs the rest when every band has a social media profile and website.

The best thing that came out of NME was Muse's CD cover of "Man of Mystery".

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