NME Magazine

In This Week's NME...

[cover]

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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[news]

- 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


[features]

- 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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[reviews]

- 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!