NME Magazine

In the magazine this week...


[cover]

- "This country needs a party." Oi, gurn-burgler! Get your dick out of the till and get your fear-daddies down to the nearest club! Klaxons have arrived... and they're teaching us Anglo-Klaxon!

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- Plus! Klaxons feature on NME's free CD! Club NME Presents Dancefloor Distortion - mixed by Simian Mobile Disco

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[news]

- Jay-Z makes history as the first hip-hop act to perform at The Royal Albert Hall, and he got a little help from his superstar friends Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nas... Oh yeah, and 'er indoors, Beyonce

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- Ah-haaaaaaaa you mentalists! Get your canary-yellow glowsticks out! ShockWaves Presents Club NME On Tour kicks off in Norwich


- "We didn't want to make a shy album." Nope, you definitely didn't. Brandon Flowers takes us through new album Sam's Town, track by track


[features]

- Klaxons' flatmates Pull Tiger Tail are this week's Radar featured band


- "You'll never see me with my arms out because I used to be fat." Gerard Way reveals all about emo, why he bleached his hair "to look ill", and his obsession with Red Dwarf!

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- Art Brut are massive in America: official... Eh?


- "I'll never stop reading NME..." That's the spirit. "...no matter how much it pains me." Oh. - What rock'n'roll has taught Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire

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- "I see a jigsaw puzzle half done on the pavement. It is a mouth part of a Tiger." Yes, of course that's Maximo Park's Paul Smith. We've got the Top Ten rock-star blogs



[reviews]

- Albert Hammond Jr's new solo album Yours To Keep reviewed, along with Hot Club De Paris' Drop It Till It Pops

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- Live: The Horrors take apart Club NME's second Birthday party - in a good way. Plus The View, and Peter Bjorn And John (without John though!).


- The Worst Band Name Of The Week Award goes to: Sharp End First (playing at the Railway Inn, Winchester on Wednesday, October 4). For more information about 523 gigs happening this week, go to page 70 of the magazine


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Don't miss NME next week: The Automatic go crazy (again) and Mystery Jets have a look around Syd Barrett's old gaff