NME Magazine

In The Magazine...

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- "What do they want? Blood?" Noooo! not again! Pete Doherty's back... or is he? We go back into Doherty's inner sanctum



- "There's not one fucking thing I'd change. I tried." Pete Doherty welcomes NME back into his gangly arms to tell about the past, his new music and his love for Salt-N-Pepa. Just don't mention his mum, yeah?

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- Oasis: it's over! Well, with Sony/BMG anyway. Remember when Noel said they would only do a Best Of if after they split up? Well, he lied - except he didn't because they're calling it a definitive collection, and it'll be out this year


- Pete and Carl met up for the first time since March 2005 last week - in a pub, this time, not by surprise in Carl's flat with Pete clutching his hi-fi. Though we suspect the conversation may well have involved begging and borrowing, if not the other

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- Peter Robinson versus Peaches: "I have taken a leak. Could you hear it?" Does that woman never cuddle up with Horlicks and a magazine? No, not that kind... the NME or something


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- The new spirit of Albion is alive and kicking - it just moved to Holloway Road. The Holloways charm us with their brand of new calypso


- The Horrors achieve hero status by having their video for 'Sheena Is A Parasite' banned. Directed by monstrous genius Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy) and starring Samantha Morton, this is the sickest thing you won't be allowed to see this year

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- Punk-pop politicians The Young Knives walk in to the scally's den in Ibiza. What do you reckon happened when a load of bikini-clad chavs mingled with a man in tweed called The House Of Lords?

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- Have we mentioned new rave yet? Oh shit we haven't! It's this great scene where dance and indie cross over to form myriad collectives of Day-Glo-clad disco kids and electro rockers... and now there's a definitive compilation to ease you in. Plus, NME looks at other records that have kickstarted musical movements. And no, it's not Parklife for the Britpop one

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- Sufjan Stevens puts out a B-sides and out-takes album. And it's as good as anything else released this year...


- ... But is it as good as NME's track of the week: The Killers' When You Were Young?


- How do you calm down when you're trying to keep your heart inside your chest?: The Maccabees blow their fans (and Cafe de Paris) away in a cataclysmic London show. While across town Justin Timberlake gently croons away at the piano, but whips up the same level of passion in his followers - well it is Timberlake

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- The Worst Band Name Of The Week award goes to: Monster Bastard Project (playing at Moles, Bath on Thursday, July 27). For information on up to 350 gigs happening this week, go to page 64 of the magazine

Ave it!

In This Week's NME...

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- Shine on you crazy diamond: after Syd Barrett's sad death, we look at the infinite achievements of rock's most mercurial figure


- "The saddest tale we are ever likely to hear of a tragic, tortured genius": some of music's most celebrated figures (and Serge Pizzorno) pay tribute to the man who inspired generation after generation


- The visionary who went too far out and never came back: the story of Syd Barrett told, including the ultimate Syd playlist

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- See Bellamy Play: "We started discussing World War III. There was a lot of paranoia." Muse tell NME about how New York saved their souls during sessions for new album Black Holes And Revelations

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- The earliest known video footage of The Libertines is unveiled, and first drummer Mr Razzcocks reckons its discovery could prompt a reunion. Of course it can Razzcocks!


- "It was like I opened the window and there it was." Razorlight tell NME how they discovered their sound for the new album - but we're sure it wasn't that simple

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- The ticket touting debate rolls on, and NME has the lastest


- Peter Robinson versus Graham Coxon: "A huge percentage of this country's population are idiots." Who does he think he is? The art-school, posh-faced, sausage-nicking... Actually, he's right you know


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- Radar: Norse disco-punkers Datarock touch down, headfirst, on to British soil,
armed with a Commodore 64 and a bagful of ebullient electro-indie

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- American indie'Ns Tapes 'N Tapes score high with their debut album of DIY stompers

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- Cansei De Ser Sexy - sassy, steamy, shouty, seedy, sultry... enough! Electro disco that feels so wrong, but feels so right


- The Gnarls Barkley Philharmonic Orchestra rolls into London - and they're all dressed as school girls! NME checked out the thousands of smiley faces at the Hammersmith Carling Apollo

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- Rubbish Band Name Of The Week: The Mingers (playing at the Cavern Club, Exeter on Thursday, July 20). For information on more than 300 gigs happening this week, go to page 56 of the magazine

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In Next Week's NME...


- Pete Doherty's most lucid, friendly and enlightening interview yet - until he stumbles off into oblivion, that is...

In This Week's NME...

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Check out our special Scottish edition, celebrating T In The Park. It's available at all good stores... in Scotland, obviously

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- "I get hate mail all the time. I like it." The undisputed Queen Of Pop is officially Top Of The Pops - Lily Allen gobs off about how drugs are great, indie boys are rubbish and anything else that she's been blogging about

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- We've got the best of the action from the weekend's Celtic double-header, T In The Park and Oxegen. Featuring a triumphant homecoming for Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys' first major gig on British soil with their new line-up, and blistering sets from Red Hot Chili Peppers and
The Strokes
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- CXXt! CXXt! CXXt! Jarvis Cocker returns with a new solo single, and he's as mad with the world's leaders as he was with Michael Jackson that time. No conformation on whether he'll show his arse, as yet

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- Might as well just form an unemployed-girl-drummer supergroup with Gemma Clarke, Meg, The Raconteurs' second album is on the way!


- Peter Robinson versus We Are Scientists: surely they'll give him a run for his money


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- Radar: "We climb on the monitors and lick people's faces. Then there's the minge-tit thing." Robots In Disguise: two wild disco sisters who left The Mighty Boosh lads recovering in their beds with Curly Wurlies. Plus, cool new
band
alert: The Scare

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- "Maybe Ally McCoist will turn, strip naked, set himself on fire. And die." Welsh pop-punk wailers The Automatic tell us what life's like inside their heads, whether we want them to or not

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- It's difficult second album time for Razorlight - Did they stumble and fall, or has Johnny Borrell got the golden touch? (We'll get our coat)

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- Latest NME cover sensation, Lily Allen has an album, too. Is 'Alright, Still' good enough to match her silver tongue, or will she be eating words with her ice cream?


- Rock My Bush! Muse made a whole lotta noise as they took to the stage for a supermassive live return at London's Shepherds Bush Empire

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- Ali Love is this week's Track Of The Week


- Finally, this week's featured Bonkers Band
Name is... Elvis Is Dead (playing at the Victoria Inn, Derby on Friday, July 14). For information on up to 500 gigs happening this week, go to page 72 of the magazine


Enjoy!

In this week's NME...
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- "We'd like to thank every band around for leaving it open for us. We're on a different wavelength."

Yep, they said it. They've been away a while - on a massive bender probably - but Kasabian are back

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- Muse take us on a track by track journey through cosmic new album Black Holes And Revelations

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- Josh Homme: "We've been getting in touch with our feminine sides." Find out where rock's ginger nut will be dipping his biscuit this summer


- No cocks please, we're BRMC. Find out which body part you should get signed at NME's Signing Tent at T In The Park?


- Peter Robinson Versus: Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson who wants Tom Cruise to learn to surf in an indoor surfing centre - in London. Riiiiight... Nurse!


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- Radar: Men, Women And Children: LA punkers that want to light up your life and get you on the dancefloor


- Paul Weller: "I bought NME religiously from the age of 12." The Modfather tells us what he learned from rock'n'roll... and having cool hair

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- On The Fringe: Find out which bands the bands will be watching at T.


- Glasto 2006: What? No Glasto? No one told Tim Jonze - then, we never told him to go and write about a festival that wasn't happening. We're glad he did though

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- Radiohead split up! ... so Thom Yorke can shake off the static electro that's been fizzing around him for years. Check out Our Kid A's first solo record

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- Peaches has made an album about love and happiness! - providing love's wearing a 32-inch strap-on and is XXX happiness up the XXX while smothering each other in the print from back issues of NME


- Don't put your TV on the radio - it'll break. Do put TV On The Radio, er, on and gorge yourself on their new album Return To Cookie Mountain


- Big Balls! Put you're massive hands together, and witness The Flaming Lips kicking off summer in style at the O2 Wireless Festival

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- Also, The Dears live (and happy) in London, The Gossip and Dublin's Psycho Fest goes mental. (Sorry)