#nme mags

[bobbie-robron]

There’s just no way that Aaron would want to dress up and wear makeup. He’s the least camp guy I know.

05-Jan-2018

[viir-tanadhal]

now i need to see eva pentel's photoshoot of neil and chris

[sunburnacoustic]

Muse reveal all about new album

March 15, 2006 16:13 | The band take NME.COM into the studio.

Muse’s fourth sees the band getting political for the first time.

NME.COM visited the band as they completed mixing on their as-yet-untitled fourth record at London’s Sanctuary Townhouse Studios, and as well as the first listen to the new tracks, singer Matt Bellamy explained how this time, recent world events have influenced him.

“There’s a song on the album called ‘A Soldier’s Poem’, written from the perspective of a soldier, who kind of thinks ‘I’m out here risking my life, for what?’” he said.

Bellamy added that themes of impending apocalypse also visited on ‘Absolution’ are more specific this time round. “There is a theme on the album, it’s that kind of connection to the cycles of history where the tension builds up and then it’s released. Whether it’s catastrophic like a nuclear war, or whether aliens come down and it’s brilliant, but there’s definitely a sense that something big is about to happen.”

Decamping to south of France Muse recorded at Miraval Studios, before heading to New York to record the songs with long-time producer Rich Costey.

Virtually cut off without cars or television in France, Bellamy admitted the band were in danger of going “off the rails”, and enjoyed hitting the big city.

“I was going out dancing in clubs around New York,” said the singer. “That helped create tracks like ‘Supermassive Black Hole’. Franz (Fedinand) have done it very well, with that dance type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar and I’ve always wanted to find that.”

The currently untitled album is due out in July, with Bellamy is confident people will react to its more topical themes. “Some of the songs are directly informed by things that are going on at the moment,” he declared referencing the Iraqi war. “Which is something we’ve not really done before, but it’s impossible for anyone to ignore it.”

[hide-your-bugs-away]

Having a bit of a Magazine Renaissance in my search for Animal-Magazines, and I couldn't be happier....... 👀

[ordenyprogreso]

[brighteyesandbass]

Murdoc and Ace lore post!

Free Murdoc Facebook interactions, 2018.

DJ Mag. [x]

NME. [x]

Humility Commentary. [x]

Gorillaz Almanac, page 121. [x]

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

rachel chinouriri for NME mag!!!

[aaliyahunleashed]

#OnThisDay June 1, 2001

She also does two back-to-back photoshoots for two (2) international magazines; NME and MIX MAG with Hamish Brown and Adam Weiss

CORRECTION NOTE: In my May 26 post, I listed this shoot as the photoshoot she had with Hamish Brown. She DID have a shoot with him that day (May 26), but she had a sheer top on on instead; if that makes sense. #MyBad

For this day, MTV would follow her and document her day for their Diary series.

[flamingplay]

"This song is about the subject of a viral road rage video, Ronnie Pickering, who shot to (a certain kind of) fame by insisting on his own significance, repeatedly asking, ‘Do you know who I am? I’m Ronnie Pickering.’ An enraged former boxer trying to find his place in a world that doesn’t remember his name"

- Jonathan Higgs on "The End of the Contender" inspiration via NME

"‘The End of the Contender’ is a track that explores the strangely targetless aggression and delusions of grandeur that have seeped into the fabric of modern culture."

- from a press-release via Under the Radar mag

Photo by Steve Gullick

[damonalbarn]

The Ballad of Darren - Major Albums Reviews

METACRITIC

Louder than War 5/5 ★

Clash Music 9/10 ★

Rolling Stone UK 4/5 ★

Record Collector Magazine 4/5 ★

UNCUT 8/10 ★

NME 4/5 ★

DIY Magazine 4/5 ★

Classic Pop 4/5 ★

MOJO 4/5 ★

The Skinny 4/5 ★

Music Connection 8/10 ★

The List 4/5 ★

The Upcoming 5/5 ★

Unilad 5/5 ★

Riot Mag 10/10 ★

Gigwise 9/10 ★

Load and Quiet 7/10 ★

Gigslutz 5/5 ★

The Rock Revival 5/5 ★

Slant Magazine 4/5 ★

Narc Magazine  4/5 ★

The Quietus 8/10 ★

Concrete Islands

The Mancunion (track by track review)

Wall Street Journal 

Cult Following 

Arctic Reviews

Ultimate Classic Rock

Yahoo

[wehavecomeforyourprivateschools]

It was sad how Terrorizer mag just ended. It was the best mag on the shelf; the closest thing to a zine rather than a rag like Kerrang or NME which, in the end, represented the interests of the big labels that wanted to shift units. They were advertisers for albums, singles, tours. Boring, essentially.

I found out about a lot of bands cos of Terrorizer. I used to take photos of the reviews cos I couldn't afford the mag, and obviously nicked the free CD.

There was that bit in the middle as well that was like a proper zine.

They were also responsible for the best review I've ever read too. It was of a Crass reissue. Mint.

I think one thing that set it apart was, in general, the journos seemed to like music, their audience and also stayed in their lane - whereas some of the big hacks at the likes of the NME loved themselves, and put themselves on a pedestal comparable to that of artists when in reality they produced and contributed nothing of value. Their role is in the selling, not the creating. They either pushed it or condemned it with an injustified amount of power that, for some, went to their heads.

But yeah, sad about Terrorizer. They just fucked off essentially. Their owners, probably a big company, maybe one behind other rags too probably did a midnight flit. They didn't tell the customers or the hacks by the looks of it.

[the1975attheirverybest]

this is deeply parasocial of me but do u think mattys bummed out about pitchfork folding??

cause i was listening to a music review podcast (with some pitchfork writers) who said the the guys were "the kind of losers who read music reviews and kept up with npr (music)" they ment this affectionately ofc

I’m inclined to say no. At least not current, 34 year old Matty. Maybe 2014 Matty would have cared. Fuck you Pitchfork btw. That’s what you get for “villain of the year.” Karma is a bitch, isn’t it?

Anyways, on to the matty thing….all throughout the BFIAFL era (and maybe even since ABIIOR? I’ve got pandemic brain I can’t remember when shit happened anymore), he has been saying that, music reviewers are irrelevant. Especially in the wake of the invention of music streaming. In other words, when he was young, music fans would go and buy the NME, MTV, Pitfork, etc mags and look at what those critics recommend out of the new music that’s coming out, and they’d spend their money on the CDs that those “experts” recommended. But nowadays, you pay like $10-14 a month and you have access to alllllllll the music that has ever existed. Which is why you now see kids listening to Adele but also Lil Nas X or One Direction but also Mahler, The 1975, Taylor, etc. “tastemakers” have ceased to be relevant. They don’t dictate culture anymore. The algorithm does.

He has also said (I can’t remember if it’s in the Zane Lowe thing or not) that he thinks it’s important that we don’t have an important / significant piece of music journalism / music criticism. Like something we can quote off the top of because it’s so iconic or a specific review of an album that we reference all the time. Cuz those things….like, in the grand scheme of things, don’t really matter. But we do have iconic songs and albums.

So yeah in short I think he’s glad that one less phony outlet is calling him a villain. BUT again that’s just me going off of what he’s said. Maybe he’s curled up into a ball sobbing right now who knows.

[sk8rambler]

pics of the pookies from an nme mag :>

[stylecouncil]

love brett anderson flip flopping about his sexuality constantly like it’s so fun. it would be so boring to read all these interviews and he just says the same thing. yeah I’m gay for the nme but the gay mag? well maybe I’m mostly straight. it’s like he wants to make people mad. none of it matters anyways because he was born as a pantomime horse. that’s what he gets for being that way etc etc etc

[sunburnacoustic]

Attempting to make some sense of the Madness on here because I've got a minute...

Tagging system (it is held together with duct tape and is borderline functional when I don't do like Muse Blackout-Reblog Saturdays or whatever)

Muse, Muse band: this tag will literally not help you find things on this blog, it's basically everything that has been tagged. It's more for finding posts outside of this blog than it is to find stuff successfully on this blog

Matt Bellamy/Chris Wolstenholme/Dom Howard/Tom Kirk/Morgan Nicholls: self-explanatory. I tend to not do a general tag where a post e.g. where Dom isn't involved with Dom, so anything that's tagged will just be because the tagged band member is in the post (or at most, being talked about in the tags)

{Matt, Chris, Dom} from Muse: three tags encompassing all the Muse Madness! Taking inspiration from the one and only "Hi, my name's Matt from Muse..." All the Muse silly moments. Some will also be tagged "silly hours", "silly moments", "sillies" or thereabouts, it's not really a robust tagging system lol. Some of those are more chit-chat/vibes based

Muse live: Now I wish I'd separated this out into two tags because right now, it's gig pictures and also any live performance videos. I briefly tagged live stuff with something like "Muse live gigs", but seeing as how I can't even remember the name you can see how well that went... (there's also "The Muse live experience is something else", and you tell me it isn't!)

Muse interviews: interviews copied and pasted, linked, gifs/videos of the band in interview if there's text of them actually saying anything. Quotes from interviews too.

Muse in magazines: written interviews, but also just photoshoots in magazines. I'm old enough to remember NME, Kerrang, Q etc. being print magazines, so I don't make a distinction between digital mags and paper scans. Many scans should also be tagged "mag scans" hopefully. Specific magazines are also often tagged (except Pitchfork probably lmao but that's because I simply don't post their stuff here, it is not worth it)

Muse audio: audio, usually from studio recordings, live gigs, sometimes interviews/radio performances, etc. Isolated tracks, instrumental tracks, vocals only, hyper-specific-'Undisclosed Desires vocoder (?) backing vocals on the last verse only' tracks, all covered here, but also there are more specific tags: "muse isolated audio" for all your analysis needs, "Muse instrumentals", "Muse isolated vocals" (<- don't remember this 100%)

Album tags, song tags, eras/tours tags: I'm so sorry this is a mess. Albums and songs are either tagged "Muse {title}" or "{title} Muse" sorry. "{Album} era", "{Tour name} tour". Knock yourselves out.

Musers: all fan-related stuff! Fan chatter, us all analysing and crying over a single song in 1500 words, fan artwork, gig pictures, the new polls, etc. all under the overarching Musers tag. I do tag fanart though: "Muse fanart" and also just generally art because why would I limit the amazing art people here make to just the 20 Muse fans here? Polls are specifically tagged "Muse polls".

band pics: usually press/on the road, etc. pictures of the whole band. Not super comprehensive lol I often forget to use this tag. 'the early years' -> baby era stuff, usually pre-Showbiz so I have no idea what else to tag them because 'Random 1-8 era' would be such a pretentious tag I'd have to punch myself.

anything with the word "collection" in it: we sure do love our collections here on muse tumblr - off the top of my head, there's a Matt Hawaiian shirt collection, Matt drinking things on camera collection, dedicated wardrobe collections (-> the legendary @wtfismattbellamywearing and @wtfisdomhowardwearing) and the sunglasses-on-head collection (dangerously close to 100 pictures...) "mum with sunglasses on her head lives!" Reason? Matt wears his sunglasses on his head a lot, he looks like my mum doing this, and it is the normalest thing you could see a Proper Rock Star like him do and it's just sweet and silly and we all have collector's disease what can I say. (My mum has responded "😍" to the collection so far)

Muse lore: all the band history, and commonly referenced memes amongst fans. Expect to see the 'fucking little fucking fuckers, yeah' Feeling Good performance, 'Hey you crazy kids!', 'The Muse' live on Italian football tele, idk, lots more I guess: 'Hi my name's Matt from Muse' (entire composition of the band dissolving around this), brie, trousers, showers, pwoper fishing, qua at aol dot com, weird interview quotes, various times Muse rebelled against being asked to mime. Lots of fun stuff.

faffing about - just posting!

Other than that, specific things might be tagged on posts, "pianos", "synths", "Manson guitars", "Mirror Manson" (big apologist here), specific weird quotes. Try a search if you need anything lol, good luck to you!

[1892]

do you have any music journalism mags/sites that you usually trust?

simple answer is no honestly 😭 i agree with some reviews from a lot of places but it's NEVER ever consistent. nme is what i check the most often and where i try to find new good artists tho !!! <3333 ive been trying to find specific reviewers who i agree with but every time i check them out there's like one review that throws me off completely idk.......music journalism is so hit or miss sadly :( esp bc IM so opinionated about the music i love and the music i hate