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He is a real music fan, and has just got a job (unpaid, whilst he is at university) writing reviews for an online site. I was thinking that I'd like to buy him a magazine subscription for Christmas, but which one?

He used to have a subscription to NME a few years ago, but is this 'cool' enough? He is particularly into Indie music, so we're not really talking mainstream pop.

It's an area I know very little about, so any recommendations would be very gratefully received!

TIA

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NME is still a good mag (Not as good as Sounds was but that was decades ago!!!! )

Thanks upahill. My only worry was that NME might have become a bit too mainstream, IYSWIM!

Yeah I know, I did stop buying it for a while and just dip into it every now and again.

i'll ask around and see what's going down now.

I think most people get stuff on line though.

Uncut or Word are better quality than NME, imo. Definitely more for musos!

Now you see, I haven't heard of either of those, so they must be cool!

Thanks, Meg

I haven't bought those in ages!!
I have had some good Cd's from uncut that are now on my iPod.

what's Q like these days. Is it still a bit of everything?

I still buy Kerrang from time to time much to my 15 year old DS amusement!!

I like Mojo but I am an old punk so not 'down with the kids' at all. God I miss Sounds

Word is brilliant. He'll discover so many new bands reading it.

Thanks! I have bought a subscriptiont to Word, so hopefully he will enjoy that.

I think i'm going to re discover word. I used to like it a lot and got out of the habit of buying it.