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Lasted Longer Than Melody Maker And Sounds, At Least
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A big part of my high school and college music consumption years were accompanied by reading week-old import copies of NME (New Musical Express), the music newspaper that anointed the hot/hip/trendy music of several generations. But times change, print is dying, and NME comes off sometimes as a bunch of old farts trying to remain relevant, which is how the paper ended up not folding but becoming a free paper. It'll try to make up in ad revenue what it can't get in newsstand sales. But in an age when the kind of indie rock it had championed in the past isn't that popular anymore (and is more the province of Pitchfork and a zillion websites) and reading about EDM isn't the same, is there room for them, even free? (The Economist)
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