NME Magazine

In this week's NME...
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World Exclusive!
Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl speaks out about those internet death rumours, his feud with Courtney Love and a summer of rockin' out!


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- "Make Touting illegal" Music fans respond p11

- Arctic Monkeys split: Why chunky Monkey legged it! And who the hell is the new member?

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- Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky hit by car: "A stage jump saved my life."


- Letters slagging Razorlight, letters loving Kula Shaker and Mark Beaumont wetting himself over Hard-Fi. Again!


- "Do you think you're funny enough?" Peter Robinson takes on that new Popworld bloke p12

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- It's still number 1! Here's how Gnarls Barkley did it p26

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- "Why d'yous hate each other?" How The Futureheads nearly lost the plot


- "It makes my flesh crawl!" New Order's Peter Hook rates this year's World Cup anthems p25

- Axl Rose: "Some pussy ass writer thinks I'm as big as a house." What happened when Gun N' Roses took on NME p22

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- Justice Vs Simian: The indie dancefloor anthem that won't go away p29

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- Screaming or blue murder? The new Primal Scream album reviewed p32

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- Albums by The Essex Green, Gomez, Orson, Towers of London, Head Automatica, The Feeling and Scritti Politti.


- Singles by Razorlight, Morrissey, Battle, The Automatic, Keane, The Zutons, Sway and The Cooper Temple Clause


- Live The Great Escape: Three days of madness at the UK's best new bands festival


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Suicide Sally and Johnny Guitar, Miss Kitten, the Tokyo Darkness, Avril Lavigne with a meat-cleaver, the chance to win an ace guitar and Jamie from The Rakes. Of course.


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IN TWO WEEK'S TIME
Free Festival CD starring:

Panic! At The Disco
Kaiser Chiefs
Tapes 'N Tapes
The Automatic and loads loads more...

In this week's NME...
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New Songs! New Show! What to expect at V!
Radiohead
NME goes on tour with the ultimate festival band

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Huge 24 page Summer Survival guide

Including:

- UK Festival Listings

- 20 bands you must see this summer

- Glastonbury Alternatives

- Festival wallplanner and posters

- Survival tips from rock stars!

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- Lily Allen: the female Mike Skinner or Corinne Bailey Rae on crack? You decide p29


- The band that happy slapped the Arctic Monkeys with a pineapple p25


- Preston Ordinary Boy goes head to head with Lady Sovereign p26


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- How to launch a rock 'n' roll empire the Forward Russia way p22

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- Chav rock meets dad rock as Paul Weller joins Hard Fi in London

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- Panic! At The Disco bassist dramatically quits p10


- Pete Robinson takes on Wolfmother's Fro'd up singer Andrew Stockdale p13


- Letters about Pete Doherty, Heroes and Emo sociopaths p14

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Front page news or fish 'n' chip wrapping paper? The Futureheads' new album 'News and Tributes' rated
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Also reviewed: Albums by Kanye West, The Black Heart Procession, Shack, Matmos, Zero 7, King Biscuit Time, Paul Simon, D4L and Singles by Muse, Radio 4, Mystery Jets, iLIKETRAiNS, You Say Party! We Say Die! Hope Of The States, The Streets, The Vines

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Noel Gallagher gives two kids a break, a tour diary by Willy Mason, the NME stereo, a band called Look Look (Dancing Boys), the electro punk Derek Acorah p19, some digital Dadaists, White Heat, five Ska records you should own, Guns N' Roses live return and er, Prokofiev!