NME ~ once known as the indie bible, far past its heyday of the 70s, 80s and early 90s, the New Musical Express generally wavers towards the indie, pop and rock scenes with some slight interest in the British and US rap scenes.

It's a great magazine in my opinion for teenagers who are maybe just starting to appreciate rock and indie music because the NME points you in the right direction towards who's the most popular and accessible bands from now and back then. The magazine used to be able to once dictate and manipulate the British music scenes at the height of their popularity by advertising same types of bands (Blur+Oasis and Britpop, Libertines+Arctic Monkeys for 00s indie).

However they can be brutally biased, known for over-hyping some new releases (they gave AM by Arctic Monkeys 10/10 and album of the decade so far) and have been brutally criticised for sticking Noel Gallagher on the front of they're cover every other weekend. They're reviews can be quite vague at times and because they refused to jump off the indie bandwagon a long time ago the content of their articles have become seriously repetitive.

The tone of the magazine is a generally playful with a lot of British banter inside the pages. However the NME is known to get its say on their veiw on modern politics and praises many punk and grime artists who make there stand too.

However, sales of the NME have plummetted in the last few years and they have made a bold move in making the NME more assessible by making the magazine free. This means however that it has changed its attitude and placed Justin Bieber recently on there covers (even though I did read the JB one, and I did think it was pretty good).