Tuesday, August 29, 2006
NME: 02. 09. 06
In this week's Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds festivals review special!
[cover]
24 ace pages from the rock 'n' roll event of the year
starring:
- Muse's Supermassive triumph!
- Franz Ferdinand's drumming extravaganza!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_3637CarlingFranz_2.2_01.jpg[/image]
- Slayer's bloody mosh pit!
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O dressed like a Sexosaurus!
- The Klaxons cause a new rave riot!
- Syd Barrett reviews the Mystery Jets and loads loads loads more!
[plus]
- Where were you? See if you can find yourself on our FREE Reading and Leeds Aerial Posters
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_Carling_POSTERS_aerial_01.jpg[/image]
[plusplus]
Kasabian give us a track by track guide to their new album Empire
- The second coming or the apocalypse*? The Rapture's new album 'Pieces Of The People We Love' gets reviewed
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_1819_01.jpg[/image]
- Peter Robinson Vs The Young Knives
*Neither it's only a bloody record. Who the hell writes this shit?
[cover]
24 ace pages from the rock 'n' roll event of the year
starring:
- Muse's Supermassive triumph!
- Franz Ferdinand's drumming extravaganza!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_3637CarlingFranz_2.2_01.jpg[/image]
- Slayer's bloody mosh pit!
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O dressed like a Sexosaurus!
- The Klaxons cause a new rave riot!
- Syd Barrett reviews the Mystery Jets and loads loads loads more!
[plus]
- Where were you? See if you can find yourself on our FREE Reading and Leeds Aerial Posters
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_Carling_POSTERS_aerial_01.jpg[/image]
[plusplus]
Kasabian give us a track by track guide to their new album Empire
- The second coming or the apocalypse*? The Rapture's new album 'Pieces Of The People We Love' gets reviewed
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_1819_01.jpg[/image]
- Peter Robinson Vs The Young Knives
*Neither it's only a bloody record. Who the hell writes this shit?
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
NME: 26.08.06
In this week's Reading And Leeds preview special...
[cover]
- NME has the build up to The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival, including a special interview with Arctic Monkeys - one year on since they blew everyone away in The Carling Tent
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_monkeys1.jpg[/image]
- Yep, they played it. NME looks at the highlights of V Festival, and how Radiohead saved their set with that song
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_V1.jpg[/image]
[news]
- We predict a classic! Kaiser Chiefs reveal details of their second album. Warning: there's no wooooaaahhs!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_kaiser_01.jpg[/image]
- Debauchery! Fighting! Stolen Nissan Bluebirds! The Horrors, Maccabees and Fratellis sign up for the O2 NME Rock'n'Roll Riot Tour
- "Dude! Download that shit, I don't give a fuck!" Peter Robinson versus Will Francis of Aiden
[features]
- The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival is here! NME looks forward to Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaisers, The Raconteurs, Body Count with Ice T... erm, Municipal Waste, Send More Paramedics...
- More Reading And Leeds stuff! The 15 new bands you have to see at the festival, and the rock stars' picks of the NME/Radio 1 Stage line-up
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_radar1.jpg[/image]
[reviews]
- "I'm just fuckin' Merlin with a wizard's hat on." Yep, you guessed it, Kasabian get their second album Empire reviewed. Plus The Dears second record is ace!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_kasabian1.jpg[/image]
- NME goes out for a drink and a dance at Junk Club - the night that spawned The Horrors and made Southend the new East End. Plus, Datarock do dead dirty disco-funk!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_junk1.jpg[/image]
The Worst Band Name Of The Week award goes to: French Car And The Bulimic Wizards (playing at The Bull And Gate, Kentish Town, London on Tuesday August 29). For more information on 369 gigs happening this week, go to page 72 of the magazine.
Reading/Leeds here we come - yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh!
[cover]
- NME has the build up to The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival, including a special interview with Arctic Monkeys - one year on since they blew everyone away in The Carling Tent
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_monkeys1.jpg[/image]
- Yep, they played it. NME looks at the highlights of V Festival, and how Radiohead saved their set with that song
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_V1.jpg[/image]
[news]
- We predict a classic! Kaiser Chiefs reveal details of their second album. Warning: there's no wooooaaahhs!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_kaiser_01.jpg[/image]
- Debauchery! Fighting! Stolen Nissan Bluebirds! The Horrors, Maccabees and Fratellis sign up for the O2 NME Rock'n'Roll Riot Tour
- "Dude! Download that shit, I don't give a fuck!" Peter Robinson versus Will Francis of Aiden
[features]
- The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival is here! NME looks forward to Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaisers, The Raconteurs, Body Count with Ice T... erm, Municipal Waste, Send More Paramedics...
- More Reading And Leeds stuff! The 15 new bands you have to see at the festival, and the rock stars' picks of the NME/Radio 1 Stage line-up
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_radar1.jpg[/image]
[reviews]
- "I'm just fuckin' Merlin with a wizard's hat on." Yep, you guessed it, Kasabian get their second album Empire reviewed. Plus The Dears second record is ace!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_kasabian1.jpg[/image]
- NME goes out for a drink and a dance at Junk Club - the night that spawned The Horrors and made Southend the new East End. Plus, Datarock do dead dirty disco-funk!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/84_junk1.jpg[/image]
The Worst Band Name Of The Week award goes to: French Car And The Bulimic Wizards (playing at The Bull And Gate, Kentish Town, London on Tuesday August 29). For more information on 369 gigs happening this week, go to page 72 of the magazine.
Reading/Leeds here we come - yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
NME: 19.08.06
In this week's special V Festival issue...
[cover]
- No Surprises? There might be... NME reveals the Top 25 Radiohead tracks of all time. As voted for by you!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_23.jpg[/image]
- "We're going to play all new stuff, and then get bottled off. It'll be great!" NME looks ahead to the weekend's V Festival, and the bands themselves tell us who the must-see acts are
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_2627.jpg[/image]
[news]
- It's 2006, but Faris Horror has been attacked in the street for daring to have long hair... and wearing strange clothes and make-up
- Carl Barat breaks his collarbone falling off a motorbike! In Thailand! Pissed! How did he cope?
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_page45.jpg[/image]
- His hair's got even longer! First pictures of Arctic Monkeys' new line-up
- We go on a track-by-track ride through new Killers album Sam's Town
- "Come On. Make me laugh. Are you not funny?" Peter Robinson gets a run for his money from Richard Hawley
[features]
- "I've you've a plug socket and a spare room, we'll come and play." You could have The Sunshine Underground and Shitdisco at you're own DIY club night!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_3031.jpg[/image]
- Radar: "Sex sex bitch bitch lick my ass." Brazil's new rave sex-punkers CSS are this week's hottest new group
- Lauren Laverne chooses her bands of the moment in Radar: The Buzz
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_18.jpg[/image]
[reviews]
- How on earth do you follow classic split project/double-album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below? OutKast based their next album on a '30s speakeasy movie. Plus, rock's top trainspotters The Young Knives have their eagerly awaited debut album reviewed.
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_3233.jpg[/image]
- NME watches some of the world's best go cover crazy at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival
And...
- The Worst Band Name Of The Week award goes to: White Boys For Gay Jesus at the Cardigan Arms, Leeds, Thursday, August 17). For more information on more than 360 gigs happening this week, go to page 56 of the mag
All this, and more hilarious quotes from Chris Cain in NME this week
[cover]
- No Surprises? There might be... NME reveals the Top 25 Radiohead tracks of all time. As voted for by you!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_23.jpg[/image]
- "We're going to play all new stuff, and then get bottled off. It'll be great!" NME looks ahead to the weekend's V Festival, and the bands themselves tell us who the must-see acts are
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_2627.jpg[/image]
[news]
- It's 2006, but Faris Horror has been attacked in the street for daring to have long hair... and wearing strange clothes and make-up
- Carl Barat breaks his collarbone falling off a motorbike! In Thailand! Pissed! How did he cope?
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_page45.jpg[/image]
- His hair's got even longer! First pictures of Arctic Monkeys' new line-up
- We go on a track-by-track ride through new Killers album Sam's Town
- "Come On. Make me laugh. Are you not funny?" Peter Robinson gets a run for his money from Richard Hawley
[features]
- "I've you've a plug socket and a spare room, we'll come and play." You could have The Sunshine Underground and Shitdisco at you're own DIY club night!
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_3031.jpg[/image]
- Radar: "Sex sex bitch bitch lick my ass." Brazil's new rave sex-punkers CSS are this week's hottest new group
- Lauren Laverne chooses her bands of the moment in Radar: The Buzz
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_18.jpg[/image]
[reviews]
- How on earth do you follow classic split project/double-album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below? OutKast based their next album on a '30s speakeasy movie. Plus, rock's top trainspotters The Young Knives have their eagerly awaited debut album reviewed.
[image]http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_3233.jpg[/image]
- NME watches some of the world's best go cover crazy at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival
And...
- The Worst Band Name Of The Week award goes to: White Boys For Gay Jesus at the Cardigan Arms, Leeds, Thursday, August 17). For more information on more than 360 gigs happening this week, go to page 56 of the mag
All this, and more hilarious quotes from Chris Cain in NME this week
Sunday, August 06, 2006
NME: 12.08.06
In the magazine this week...
[cover]
- Warning: Do Not Feed The Horrors! The best new band in Britain will rip you to bits
- Arthur Lee: "One of the most beautiful and inspirational people I have ever met." We look back at the life of a '60s icon
- "Everyone's said yes so far." Glastonbury headliners revealed! It's... on page seven!
[news]
- Get your glowsticks out, the Shockwaves Presents Club NME On Tour is here, and it's a new rave extravaganza! Klaxons! Shitdisco! Datarock!
- The drugs don't work: Pete Doherty and Mike Skinner re-record Streets favourite Prangin Out
- "I always associate him with that fibreglass insulation for an attic." Peter Robinson Vs Pink
[features]
- "He sings it like a wounded boxer or something. It's really beautiful." The top 25 Oasis songs of all time, voted for by you! And today's stars tell us how they inspired them
- Radar Special: NME takes a trip to the best new bands festival in Britain, Truck! Featuring Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, GoodBooks, Good Shoes and loads of rain
- "If it wasn't for them there wouldn't have been The Libertines." It's been five years since The Strokes' debut album Is This It changed music forever
- The Summer Of Glam is here, and it's all thanks to The Fratellis... NME catches up with them and 30 burlesque dancers on their latest video shoot
[reviews]
- The essential Glastonbury compilation and Captain's debut album reviewed
- New rave forefathers The Rapture are this week's Track Of The Week
- NME attempts to keep up with The Automatic on their monster UK tour
- Worst Band Name Of The Week is: Monkey Tennis Experience (playing at the Primrose, Leeds on Sunday, August 13). For more information on 482 gigs happening this week, go to page 56 of the mag
Enjoy all this and loads more, you 'orrible lot!
[cover]
- Warning: Do Not Feed The Horrors! The best new band in Britain will rip you to bits
- Arthur Lee: "One of the most beautiful and inspirational people I have ever met." We look back at the life of a '60s icon
- "Everyone's said yes so far." Glastonbury headliners revealed! It's... on page seven!
[news]
- Get your glowsticks out, the Shockwaves Presents Club NME On Tour is here, and it's a new rave extravaganza! Klaxons! Shitdisco! Datarock!
- The drugs don't work: Pete Doherty and Mike Skinner re-record Streets favourite Prangin Out
- "I always associate him with that fibreglass insulation for an attic." Peter Robinson Vs Pink
[features]
- "He sings it like a wounded boxer or something. It's really beautiful." The top 25 Oasis songs of all time, voted for by you! And today's stars tell us how they inspired them
- Radar Special: NME takes a trip to the best new bands festival in Britain, Truck! Featuring Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, GoodBooks, Good Shoes and loads of rain
- "If it wasn't for them there wouldn't have been The Libertines." It's been five years since The Strokes' debut album Is This It changed music forever
- The Summer Of Glam is here, and it's all thanks to The Fratellis... NME catches up with them and 30 burlesque dancers on their latest video shoot
[reviews]
- The essential Glastonbury compilation and Captain's debut album reviewed
- New rave forefathers The Rapture are this week's Track Of The Week
- NME attempts to keep up with The Automatic on their monster UK tour
- Worst Band Name Of The Week is: Monkey Tennis Experience (playing at the Primrose, Leeds on Sunday, August 13). For more information on 482 gigs happening this week, go to page 56 of the mag
Enjoy all this and loads more, you 'orrible lot!
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
NME: 05.08.06
In NME this week...
[cover]
- "If I'd thought about it, I'd have worn a better outfit." It's the 10th anniversary special issue! Find out how Oasis 'ad it at the gig of the '90s
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/knebworth_opener_2.2.jpg[/image]
- "That moment did seem like a coming together of the great Mancunian mafia." NME has the views of the bands, backstage movers and future stars who were there to witness it all unfold
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/oasis%202nd%20spread_2.jpg[/image]
[news]
- "Well, it was a rather exuberant performance," says a still-shaking GMTV spokesperson after The Automatic turned breakfast TV on its head and then dropped it on a concrete slab. Plus, news of their frenzied UK tour
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/News%206-7_2.0.jpg[/image]
- The Horrors prove they are the hottest band in town with a manic show at London's 100 Club, during a heatwave as scary as their make-up!
- Peter Robinson versus Cerys Matthews: "I don't really believe in cock-fighting." And she only eats happy cows, you know
- New Rave has arrived: official. NME's comment page is back. Andy Capper explores the new musical revolution
[features]
- Radar: The View are on fire! Scots superstars-to-be slayed T In The Park: now it's time for the rest of British rock to get singed
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/Radar%20The%20View%202.jpg[/image]
- Radar Live: NME hits the circuit to witness ethereal indie-poppers Captain, and purveyors of that whistle-blowing, dream-anthem Peter Bjorn And John
[reviews]
- Hip-hop heavyweight and Ex-NERD man Pharrell Williams works alone for once. But can he work the magic on himself? NME reviews his debut solo LP In My Mind
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/AlbumPharrell%202.2.jpg[/image]
- Pete Doherty and Babyshambles play a gig in a car park, only this time they were joined by The Strokes, Pixies, and Morrissey. And, it wasn't in Stoke on a rainy Tuesday night - it was at Spain's scorching Benicassim festival!
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/live_benicassim%202.2.jpg[/image]
- Worst Band Name Of The Week goes to: The Rock Of Travolta (playing the Zodiac, Oxford, Saturday, August 5). For more information on more than 430 gigs happening this week, go to page 56 of the mag
All this and muchos more...
Ole!
[cover]
- "If I'd thought about it, I'd have worn a better outfit." It's the 10th anniversary special issue! Find out how Oasis 'ad it at the gig of the '90s
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/knebworth_opener_2.2.jpg[/image]
- "That moment did seem like a coming together of the great Mancunian mafia." NME has the views of the bands, backstage movers and future stars who were there to witness it all unfold
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/oasis%202nd%20spread_2.jpg[/image]
[news]
- "Well, it was a rather exuberant performance," says a still-shaking GMTV spokesperson after The Automatic turned breakfast TV on its head and then dropped it on a concrete slab. Plus, news of their frenzied UK tour
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/News%206-7_2.0.jpg[/image]
- The Horrors prove they are the hottest band in town with a manic show at London's 100 Club, during a heatwave as scary as their make-up!
- Peter Robinson versus Cerys Matthews: "I don't really believe in cock-fighting." And she only eats happy cows, you know
- New Rave has arrived: official. NME's comment page is back. Andy Capper explores the new musical revolution
[features]
- Radar: The View are on fire! Scots superstars-to-be slayed T In The Park: now it's time for the rest of British rock to get singed
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/Radar%20The%20View%202.jpg[/image]
- Radar Live: NME hits the circuit to witness ethereal indie-poppers Captain, and purveyors of that whistle-blowing, dream-anthem Peter Bjorn And John
[reviews]
- Hip-hop heavyweight and Ex-NERD man Pharrell Williams works alone for once. But can he work the magic on himself? NME reviews his debut solo LP In My Mind
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/AlbumPharrell%202.2.jpg[/image]
- Pete Doherty and Babyshambles play a gig in a car park, only this time they were joined by The Strokes, Pixies, and Morrissey. And, it wasn't in Stoke on a rainy Tuesday night - it was at Spain's scorching Benicassim festival!
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/612/2983/320/live_benicassim%202.2.jpg[/image]
- Worst Band Name Of The Week goes to: The Rock Of Travolta (playing the Zodiac, Oxford, Saturday, August 5). For more information on more than 430 gigs happening this week, go to page 56 of the mag
All this and muchos more...
Ole!
