Why I hate 'Indie' &NME

[beth]

i wouldnt call her "far from indie." she's on a fairly small label in the U.S. that only host a few musicians (some of whom, like art brut and cold war kids are considered part of the indie scene).

Edit by samsaBEAR (Forum Moderator): Please don't double post, simply edit your previous one

she's on a small label in the US? i street-teamed for her a couple of months back, which means she's on a pretty big label since i only work for warner/atlantic.

[RedStratocas]

she's on a small label in the US? i street-teamed for her a couple of months back, which means she's on a pretty big label since i only work for warner/atlantic.

she's on atlantic in the u.k., she's on downtown records in the u.s., which is a small subsidary of atlantic and warner.

[untrustus]

my bad @ the double post.

but yeah, art brut rulez.

protip: if you like art brut, listen to let's wrestle

[Janeisntpleased]

all nme does is rape the klaxons.
the klaxons are crap.

[untrustus]

*klaxons

and they never talk about them anymore.

[Janeisntpleased]

*klaxons

and they never talk about them anymore.

i haven't read it in time, but that's all they raved about last time i read it.

[help23]

Most of the bands featured in nme have a plugger behind them so that is why they are getting the attention of nme and nme are basicly tiold what to say about them by their plugger.

[YoManGo!]

yeah, i hate nme too. they're so close-minded and hype-crazy. they gave "blueberry boat" by fiery furnaces, an incredibly creative and fun album, one star. i was mad when i saw that.

while a lot of people hate them because they're a bit elitist, pitchforkmedia.com probably has the best perspective on the music world today, especially indie.

pitchforkmedia.com called flogging molly a post-grunge band.

[RedStratocas]

pitchforkmedia.com called flogging molly a post-grunge band.

haha, ive never even seen them cover flogging molly. they have some bad genre habits. especially coining genre names then acting like it's a huge scene (i dont think there's any other "freak folk" band other than animal collective)