In a review by NME Black Wax was named as one of the "must hear" tracks from Hey Everyone!.
In 1971, he appointed Rodney Collins - known as a supporter of pirate radio through his weekly music newspaper columns - as Publicity Officer for the two networks in an attempt to gain more coverage for Radio 1 in music papers such as the NME, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror.
In December 2009, NME listed "Formed a Band" as the 32nd best single of the decade.
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In October 2011, NME placed it at number 102 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
In 2011, NME placed it at number 17 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
In October 2011, NME placed it at number 116 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
In October 2011, NME placed it at number 60 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
In an interview with James Righton of New Cross-based musical act Klaxons in the 2006 NME Student Guide, he encouraged readers to take the "45free" bus, a reference to the easily avoidable fare.
NME: The Cool List 2005 is a compilation album released by British music magazine NME to correspond with their 2005 Cool List.
PSM3 also had a number of regular freelance contributors, including writers from Edge, PC Gamer and NME.
When The Musical Express was sold to Odhams the mast head read The 'New' Musical Express.
Their continuing popularity ensured a stream of work including backing duties at the televised NME awards.
Founded originally under the name Silver Bug and then simply Bug in the late 1990s by singer-songwriters Jeff and Dan Greene (no relation, though they attended Hamilton College together), The Butterflies of Love have released two albums on US-based Coffeehouse Records and two albums on British independent label Fortuna Pop! Their fifth single, It's Different Now was made Single Of The Week in the NME.
The venue has also been voted favourite live music venue by readers of the NME on several occasions.
Since signing, the band has begun playing venues across the UK and have appeared in music magazines such as NME and Mojo, as well as several national newspapers.
Tony Naylor of Britain's NME referred to the track as "a wonderful computer-processed reggae romp".
His video for the remake of his earlier song Mauve Shoes are Awful was a nominated at the NME Shockwaves Video awards in 2009.
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Write-ups in the English music and fashion press (NME, The Face) caught the attention of Terry Hall, who invited Bananarama to sing on his new vocal group Fun Boy Three's next single.
She featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such as Melody Maker, NME, Smash Hits and Sounds.
The band also headlined the first Club NME in Paris at La Fleche D'or venue, they were supported by Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya, with DJ sets coming from South Central, Shitdisco and Vicarious Bliss.
The single was scheduled for release in October through their management's label East City Records, however despite being named BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Record in the World' and gaining radio play on stations including BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6Music, XFM and NME Radio, the single was cancelled due to a copyright issue regarding the chorus lyrics from the song "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
The Russian album includes liner notes in Russian, from text that was originally in English by Roy Carr of the NME.
While on tour in the UK during early 2006, the band took part in the Abbey Road Sessions for American satellite radio station U-Pop and enjoyed video plays on MTV2, whilst Mojo, NME, Uncut, and Q all carried reviews of their fifth studio album, Fangs.
Filthy Pedro has appeared on Channel 4's Transmission programme (which borrowed the idea from his song 'Rock N Roll Points' as an interview technique), was recommended by Lauren Laverne in the NME and in 2007 performed live on Marc Riley's BBC6 radio show following the launch of his first single.
The nights were called "Nautical" and were featured in the Guardian newspaper and named NME club of the week for the 1 September 2006 show, which featured British Sea Power and the Tiny Dancers.
The album was well reviewed by music sites and magazines NME, AllMusic, NPR, Pitchfork, Dusted, among others.
:Reading Panel: Jon McClure, Steve Lamacq (BBC6 presenter), Stephen Street (Blur / Smiths producer), Paul Stokes (News Editor NME) & Nadia Khomami (NME.com competition winner, Host: John O’Sullivan.
The lyrics to "It's No Game (Part 1)" are spoken in Japanese by Michi Hirota, with Bowie screaming the English translation "as if he's literally tearing out his intestines", according to NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray.
Although the band created a buzz for itself overseas, including Melody Maker and NME singles of the week and top chart positions, their major label debut Popdropper sold marginally.
John has also written articles on reggae for Mojo, Music Week, The Guardian, The Observer and NME, as well as magazines in the US (The Beat), Japan (RM) and Germany (Riddim).
Consisting of Edward Larrikin (vocals), Micko Larkin (guitar), Alfie Ambrose (bass) and Coz Kerrigan (drums), and also occasionally including violinist Rob Skipper from The Holloways or roving violinist Jonnie Fielding, the band were briefly described as being part of a Thamesbeat scene by the NME, a scene which is now widely accepted as having never really existed.
John Peel played some tracks off this white label and the record went on to become a small cult-classic prompting NME to refer to Winer as The Grandmother of Triphop.
The album is a ten track live recording, released through the American label, Spaceland Recordings, and recorded at Spaceland an alternative rock/indie rock nightclub in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on November 15, 2006, as part of NME Wednesday night concert series.
The band's career was given a boost when the NME's Steve Lamacq wrote a couple of favourable reviews and mentioned the band to the London A&R crowd who frequented the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town.
Their Ramones sampler 'Lets Go' was released on Jane’s birthday, the same day Joey Ramone died, and NME dubbed it as ‘nauseating'.
Many of the series were produced by NME editorial director Steve Sutherland, but some of the later issues, such as those on the Solo Years Of The Beatles and Mod, were under the editorship of Chris Hunt.
Broadcast from studios in the Blue Fin Building in South Bank, London, also home to IPC Media, NME Radio was launched on 24 June 2008 with its first track being "Knights of Cydonia" by British rock band Muse.
Noone replaced Bowie's line "The Earth is a bitch" with "The Earth is a beast", in a performance that NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray opined to be "one of rock and roll's most outstanding examples of a singer failing to achieve any degree of empathy whatsoever with the mood and content of a lyric".
In December 1989, the British music magazine, NME reported that the Popinjays, along with others such as Power of Dreams, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine and The Charlatans, were their pick as 'stars of tomorrow'.
Copies were initially given away at the band's London Marquee Club first anniversary concerts, but when these were cut short further copies were given to fan club members, and 250 were given as crossword prizes with the New Musical Express.
Stuck Together with God's Glue was Something Happens' second studio album with Petrol (Hello,Hello) making it number 40 in NME's singles of the year in 1990.
A single, "Crystals", and album, Kings of the Desert, were released in January 1990 to favourable reviews and articles from such journalists as Edwin Pouncey (aka Savage Pencil) and Phil McMullen in NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Ptolemaic Terrascope, and the first issue of Select magazine (which awarded the album 4 out of 5).
In April–May 2009 The Chapman Family played alongside La Roux, Heartbreak and Magistrates on NME's Samsung Radar tour, playing in Nottingham, Bristol, Wrexham, Oxford, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Preston, Glasgow, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Stoke, Norwich and London.
The album was critically acclaimed on release with the NMEs Nick Kent describing it as "Ayers' most formidable recorded work to date".
Their first single, 586's We Got Bored became a sizeable indie club hit and NME awarded it 'Runner Up Single Of The Week' in May '06. The second release was Lowlife by Scanners, which went on to be featured in a Jeff Bridges film, Mama's Boy.
It is also widely acclaimed, coming in at number 2 (behind Last Nite by The Strokes) on NME's list of the best 50 songs of the previous decade.
Paul Morley in NME picked them as “band most likely to…” in 1980, and they were noted as the “best gig of 1980” in Sounds.
As a writer and a photographer Keller's work has appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Tape OP, NME, Kerrang, Rolling Stone, Teen People, Cat Fancy, Time, and National Geographic and on albums by bands such as Jubilee, At The Drive-In, Jimmy Eat World, The Criminals, F.Y.P, Face to Face, Treadwell, Shat, and Oasis.
Further promotion continued at the beginning of the following year, when the band played the 2003 NME Awards Tour alongside The Datsuns, The Polyphonic Spree and The Thrills.
NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray considered "Watch That Man" the prime example of a collection of songs on Aladdin Sane that were "written too fast, recorded too fast and mixed too fast".