Blog: State Magazine

As usual, this year's NME Awards was a mixture of the great, the good, the drunk and the annoying, all presented by a once great title currently struggling to be all things to all (younger and younger) people. One look at the winners gives a clue to just how un-alternative the 2009 notion of alternative music really can be with Kings Of Leon, The Killers, Muse (best live act yet again) and MGMT picking up the main prizes. Spot the difference between this and the Brits and quite probably the Meteors? No, neither can we. The [...]