Flea (of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame) will be designing and launching a line of affordable bass guitars. NME reports that Flea settled on this new venture after he discovered that his music students were playing poor quality instruments.

Them Crooked Vultures are already planning for their next album.

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Brand New's The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me made NME's list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade. What are some of yours?

Read an article with Liam from Oasis where he discusses the possible future of the band.

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NME is reporting a Pavement reunion in 2010 for a few New York gigs.

Lily Allen says kids should try drugs.

From the Article

"Parents should say, 'Drugs might seem fun, but they do funny things to your brain. Some people react to it good, some don't. Try it and see what you think'."

NME has named its annual "Cool List".

NME have named their hottest 25 artists in the United States. Check out the list in the replies.

Morrissey recently had NME editor Conor McNicholas ejected from an L.A. hotel.

Watch NME interview The Verve in the replies.

For any of you still awake, the US NME Awards show, live from the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, is streaming live on myspace. It started at 9 PM Pacific, but still seems to be going strong.

NME is now only averaging 64,000 readers per issue; could this be the end for the magazine?

From the Article

Given NME's growing profile online, on TV, at festivals and branded tours, these figures seem a strange and bitter pill. Some industry commentators are even speculating that the print version...[read more]

Morrissey is suing NME for defamation.

Gallows' Frank Carter plans to get a "F*ck the NME" tattoo after toping the magazine's "cool list."

Download The Verve's first new music in over decade at NME.

NME pronounces MGMT "The Best New York Band About." What do you think? Next indie sensation? Check out four songs from their forthcoming debut on MySpace.

Dave Grohl has finally opened up and talked about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, saying the band has a song on their new record about the couple.

Win Butler of the Arcade Fire talked with NME recently where he was openly critical of the marketing strategies of bands like U2, The Rolling Stones, and Oasis. Arcade Fire were on the cover of the latest edition of NME, and parts of the article can be seen here.

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Panic! at the Disco once again discuss Brent leaving the band. This time with NME.

AP.net recently had a chance to interview the band - look for that to hit the website sometime in the future.

Radiohead called the music industry "a bunch of fucking retards" in a recent NME article.

The Subways' new album, Young For Eternity, is set to hit stores on February 14th via Sire Records. Check out the links below for an audio stream of the band's first single, "Rock and Roll Queen," as well as video clips of the band's recent performance on the set of the OC:

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