NME Magazine

Oi! Irish people! NME has launched a special Ireland-only edition, featuring Irish news, reviews, new band exclusives and comprehensive gig listings, alongside all the usual content of the NME. Pick up NME Ireland from all good Irish (obviously) newsagents.


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Everyone this week can share the NME love and get their hands on a free CD! You lucky things are treated to the first of three free Independent Thinking CDs. This week's offering is from 1965 Records and boasts a tracklisting containing the best in brand-spanking new music including The View and Ripchord from one of the coolest independent record labels around. Stick it on your player and get reading the mag!



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In NME Ireland this week...


- Sinead O'Connor hits the Irish limelight again and plays new tracks to an invite-only audience


- The Blizzards show Dublin what boyband hysteria is all about. Eat that Boyzone! Plus Brazilians CSS and Galway's Cane 141 hit the stage


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In the UK edition of the magazine this week...

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- "We had a psychedelic party on a bouncy castle in the desert." That's right, jet-powered alien lovers Muse are back and about to bring their supermassive freak show to town


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- Plus! Who's the coolest rock star of the year? Kate Jackson? Faris Rotter? Jarvis Cocker? Find out this week with the return of the NME Cool List and see if your faves feature in the top 50 coolest rock icons of 2006



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- Bloc Party tell NME all the gory details of how drummer Matt Tong's lung collapsed onstage and how his recovery is getting on


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- NME exclusive Michael Eavis blogs live from Mozambique! Read the Glasto boss' news on how the money you've spent on rock'n'roll is being spent saving lives in Africa



[features]

- Radar special: Forget New Yorkshire, the West Midlands is now the best musical hotbed for new music in the country. Let NME introduce you to Ripchord, The Twang, The Enemy and loads of other cracking new bands discovered in the er, Best Midlands!


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[reviews]

- Jay-Z comes out of retirement for a new album boasting a crack team of producers and Coldplay's first ever hip-hop track! And, Foo Fighters put the rock aside and go acoustic


- Proof that war doesn't have to be bad – Cold War Kids get Track Of The Week


- Live reviews include Enter Shikari and Les Incompetents, and NME has evidence that The Black Parade keeps on charging with My Chemical Romance striding into Brixton Academy


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- As for the UK's biggest Gig Guide, head to page 72 to read all about the forthcoming Blood Arm and Lo-Fi Fnk tours and of course many, many more. 547 more to be precise!


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- Coming next , get your hands on Transgressive Records, the second in our Independent Thinking free CDs, containing the best cutting-edge indie tracks from another cool independent record label. Next week, Modular Records.


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