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Woo hoo! I’m definitely glad NME released this list. For a second I was starting to get consumed by British/foreign music. It’s cool to know that America is cool again. Here’s what the press release regarding the new NME issue said.
As the USA steals itself for a new president this year, it seems the country is also undergoing something of a musical revolution. In its latest issue “We [Love] USA” iconic British music magazine NME, celebrates the 25 American acts who are whipping up a storm on both sides of the Atlantic — signalling the re-birth of the US music scene!
Alex Miller, New Bands Editor for NME said: “Right now I can barely go a day without coming across a new genius band from the States. While the art scene of Brooklyn or the punks of LA are keeping the underground fascinating, the ceaseless ambitions of Lil Wayne and the Kings Of Leon are making the Chili Pepper and Fiddy Cent clichés of the mainstream redundant. If only it wasn’t so bloody hard to get a green card!”
Obviously Vampire Weekend are leading the cool cats in their lives’ most important task yet — making the American music scene cool again. As already mentioned, Weezy and Kings of Leon are are to support the Ivy League-ers in the battle.
Here are NME’s 25 Bands Making America Cool Again (w/ a few remixes)
01 Vampire Weekend MP3 – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Black Dominoes remix)
02 Lil Wayne
03 Glass Candy
04 Kings Of Leon
05 MGMT MP3 – Electric Feel (Justice remix)
06 Spank Rock
07 TV On The Radio
08 Boy Crisis
09 Black Kids MP3 – Hurrican Jane (The Twelves Remix)
10 Holy Ghost Revival
11 The Hold Steady
12 Fleet Foxes
13 Amazing Baby
14 Jay Reatard
15 HEALTH
16 The Cool Kids MP3 – Pump Up The Volume (Flosstradamus Remix)
17 Black Lips
18 Yo Majesty
19 White Denim
20 Telepathe
21 Iglu and Hartly
22 Chester French
23 Girl Talk
24 TheDeathSet
25 Grace Jones
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Kings of Leon isn’t making anybody any cooler.
OMG Thank you!
…But MGMT make everything cooler!
I didn’t know we stopped being cool.
:’(
What’s so cool about Spank Rock? I hate his material. He’s only good as a featured artist.
Ok, I LOOOOOOVE Grace Jones. But. She’s from Jamaica and has lived in France for ages now. Hardly American. But hella cool, regardless!
kings of leon rule u dunghole. go listen to because of the times, if u can hear, because obviously u can’t. where’s interpol, my morning jacket, and secret machines? nme sucks. they still revolve their lives around oasis. they haven’t made a good song in 10 years.
how is Vampire Weekend’s redundancy cool? O wait it must be the Ray Bans!
MGMT and Vampire weekend are the best!!!!
you can spend the night!!!!!!!!
Love Spank Rock.
Crystal Castles?
flailing around like a rabid coked-out wanna-be gypsy while your band-mate pushes play on a cd player is the new thing, eh? splendid. if Glass Candy is “making music cool again”, then we’re in serious trouble.
Why aren’t The Killers in there?…. =[
frankie,interpol is ok, hardly life changeing. I agree with my morning jacket though
NWE probably just assumed that The Killers were british, just like the rest of us lol