Going to the mid-end of the ' 80s, Seattle had their thrash metal bands, such as The Accused ( a crossover thrash band ), Bitter End, Coven, Forced Entry, Terrorist a power trio featuring Andy Massey on guitar James Dean on bass and Vence LaRose drums formerly of Mace ... NME and R. I. P .. Also of particular note are Seattle's Slaughter Haus 5, Tacoma Bands Sword of Judgement, Hammer Head, Kil-D-Kor, Koz of Konfuzion, Diamond Lie featuring Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, as well as Olympia bands Cyperus and Death Squad.

This succeeded in spreading their name around the music press, with the NME taking a particular interest in them ( an interest which continued throughout their career ).

Jon Spencer was asked about this particular performance in a June 2010 issue of the UK music weekly NME:

They were embraced by Distillers frontwoman Brody Dalle and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme at the 2004 NME Awards.

In July 1982, the opening of the Batcave in London's Soho provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which would be briefly labeled " positive punk " by the NME in a special issue with a front cover in early 1983.

Siouxsie Sioux was particularly influential on the dress style of the Gothic rock scene ; Paul Morley of NME described Siouxsie and the Banshees's 1980 gig at Futurama: " was modeling her newest outfit, the one that will influence how all the girls dress over the next few months.

In the United Kingdom the C86 cassette, a 1986 NME compilation featuring Primal Scream, The Pastels, The Wedding Present and other bands, was a document of the UK indie scene at the start of 1986.

In Britain the combination of indie with dance-punk was dubbed new rave in publicity for Angular's Klaxons and the term was picked up and applied by the NME to bands including Trash Fashion, New Young Pony Club, Hadouken !, Late of the Pier, Test Icicles and Shitdisco, forming a scene with a similar visual aesthetic to earlier rave music.

The pair rapidly became champions of the Punk scene and created a new tone for the paper ( Parsons ' time at NME is reflected in his 2005 novel Stories We Could Tell, about the misadventures of three young music paper journalists on the night of 16 August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died ).

By the end of 1990, the Madchester scene was dying off, acid house was suffering from being the subject of a vigorous campaign to outlaw it by the John Major government, and NME had started to report on new bands coming from the US, mainly from Seattle.

The NME still covered the Indie scene and was involved with a war of words with a new band called Manic Street Preachers who were criticising the NME for what they saw as an elitist view of bands they would champion.

In the UK Kava Kava cut their teeth through the underground festival / party scene, with NME describing the band as " gorgeous new psychedelic funk " for their debut ' You Can Live Here '

Ure moved to London and soon found himself immersed in a scene he had previously only read about in the pages of the NME.

The C86 cassette, released in 1986 by NME and featuring such bands as The Wedding Present, Primal Scream, The Pastels, and the Soup Dragons, was a major influence on the development of indie pop and the British indie scene as a whole.

To a certain extent it was a music press invention, much like positive punk, a scene and style named by British indie magazines, specifically NME and the Melody Maker.

In Britain the combination of indie with American pioneered dance-punk was dubbed new rave in publicity for The Klaxons and the term was picked up and applied by the NME to a number of bands, including Trash Fashion, New Young Pony Club, Hadouken !, Late of the Pier, Test Icicles, and Shitdisco forming a scene with a similar visual aesthetic to earlier rave music.

He was a scene painter at the Old Vic Theatre in Waterloo and illustrated regularly for the NME, i-D, Literary Review, Time Out and International Musician magazines between 1987-89.

In his review of the Concert for Bangladesh film for NME, John Pidgeon would describe the scene as " a roadie's nightmare of instruments, mikes, amps and speakers ".

First single ' You Can Be Flirty ', was panned in NME and Melody Maker but in early 2001 second single, ' Dreaming Of Injured Popstars ' made an impression across the UK underground scene, with notably vicious, sarcastic lyrics: the song describes named pop stars being brutally injured.

By the summer of 1996 Oasis's prominence was such that NME termed a number of Britpop bands ( including The Boo Radleys, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast ) as " Noelrock ", citing Gallagher's influence on their success.

Albarn explained to the NME in January 1997 that " We created a movement: as far as the lineage of British bands goes, there'll always be a place for us ", but added, " We genuinely started to see that world in a slightly different way.

NME magazine wrote in 1991, " are acceptable pretty face of a whole clump of bands that have emerged since the whole Manchester thing started to run out of steam.

In November 1974 NME music magazine reported that The Rubettes, The Glitter Band and Mud were among the UK bands who had roles in a new film titled Never Too Young To Rock.

NME magazine wrote in 1991, " are acceptable pretty face of a whole clump of bands that have emerged since the whole Manchester thing started to run out of steam.

By the end of the year Blur and Oasis were the two biggest bands in the UK and sales of the NME were increasing thanks to the Britpop effect.

1995 saw the NME cover many of these new bands and saw many of these bands play the NME Stage at that year's Glastonbury Festival where the paper had been sponsoring the second stage at the festival since 1993.

In 2001 the NME reasserted its position as an influence in new music and helped to introduce bands including The Strokes, The Vines, and The White Stripes.

Later, Arctic Monkeys became the standard-bearers of the post-Libertines crop of indie bands, being both successfully championed by the NME and receiving widespread commercial and critical success.

NME sponsors a tour of the United Kingdom by up-and-coming bands each year.

The British music press — particularly NME and Melody Maker — named this style shoegazing because the musicians in these bands stood relatively still during live performances in a detached, introspective, non-confrontational state, hence the idea that they were gazing at their shoes.

The term was picked up by the NME, who used it as a reference to the tendency of the bands ' guitarists to stare at their feet — or their effects pedals ; seemingly deep in concentration, while playing.

However, Gallagher was often regarded as the spear-head of the Britpop movement, and at one point of time, NME termed a number of Britpop bands ( including Kula Shaker, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast ) as " Noelrock ", citing Gallagher's influence on their success.

" The NME article grouped the bands Gallagher praised, including The Boo Radleys, Ocean Colour Scene, and Cast, under the banner of " Noelrock ".

According to NME journalist Stuart Maconie, the British press had " gone bonkers over Manchester bands ".

In 1978 Barney Bubbles was responsible for the redesign of the weekly music paper the NME, including a new logo design ( which is no longer in use ).< ref >

Arriving in an open-top Mercedes convertible, the singer waved to the crowd in a gesture that some alleged was a Nazi salute, which was captured on camera and published in NME.

During an interview with NME Magazine, he shot and killed a squirrel with a pellet gun to prevent any further damage to his electrical system in the attic at the location the interview was held.

Spray was an internal nickname given to the NME boss character by the developers.

His debut album Maxinquaye was nominated for the Mercury Prize and voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine.

The album also received favourable reviews from several music critics and was also listed by NME as one of the best albums to be released in 1981.

The music press was united in its criticism, the NME describing " I am the Resurrection " as " more like the eternal crucifixion ".

On 26 May 2011, NME reported that, according to Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder, a Stone Roses reunion was " definitely on the cards.

The NME wrote about the phenomenon, " Yes, in a week where news leaked that Saddam Hussein was preparing nuclear weapons, everyday folks were still getting slaughtered in Bosnia and Mike Tyson was making his comeback, tabloids and broadsheets alike went Britpop crazy.

" We felt ' Popscene ' was a big departure ; a very, very English record ", Albarn told the NME in 1993, " But that annoyed a lot of people ... We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested.

While Q called it " a dense, fascinating, idiosyncratic and accomplished art rock album ", the NME felt it was inconsistent and "( at least ) a quarter-of-an-hour too long ".

Coxon also stated that no further Blur activity was planned, telling NME. com that September, " We're in touch and we say ' Wotcha ' and all that but nothing has been mentioned about any more shows or anything else ".

At the same time, the NME was renamed as the Department of Defense.

In a 1993 NME interview, Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur agreed with interviewer John Harris ' assertion that Blur was an " anti-grunge band ," and said, " Well, that's good.

He later told NME, "' Worse for wear ' wasn't the half of it: I was extremely ill. By the time the tour actually finished it was all getting a little bit ... dangerous.

In July 1987, Marr left the group permanently because he thought an NME article entitled " Smiths to Split " was planted by Morrissey, when in fact it was not.

Soon afterwards, NME scotched the story, also citing " sources close to the band ", and quoting Johnny Marr's manager to the effect that it was " rubbish ".

He was strongly opposed to the 2003 United States war against Iraq, and with fellow musician Damon Albarn personally paid for full page adverts in the NME magazine.

The band's new sound was met with poor reviews, NME called it " confused and lacking in cohesion ".