NME Magazine

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!

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- "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

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[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?

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- 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!

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- 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
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[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.

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- 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