Monday, December 04, 2006

 

NME: 9.12.06

In NME Ireland this week...


- Snow Patrol could be performing at the Meteor Music Awards, alongside Director and The Pussycat Dolls.


- Live! The Immediate, Fairuza and Echogram play 11 gigs in 10 days. Plus, The Flaming Lips in Dublin and the madness that is giveamanakick




In the NME England, Scotland, Wales, USA, etc this week...

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- Free CD! It's the last in our series of Independent Thinking compilations. This week: Modular Records. Including: Wolfmother, New Young Pony Club, Cut Copy, The Presets and loads more


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- "You just don't get records this good very often." Find out NME's Top 50 Albums Of The Year! My Chemical Romance? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Gnarls Barkley? Stop guessing and find out in the mag!


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- Noel Gallagher: "Kasabian are the best band in England." He praises the Leicester ladrockers after they support him for a low-key solo gig


- The first bands are announced for the ShockWaves NME Awards Shows set to slay London. Including: Maximo Park, King Of Leon and Regina Spektor


- Green Day are currently working on three albums' worth of new material, as they follow up the world-beating American Idiot album

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- "I'm cooler than Mince Fratelli. Please print a correction." Peter Robinson Vs Mattie Safer from The Rapture


[features]

- Radar: Widescreen neon-poppers Tiny Dancers are this week's buzz band. Plus! They'll kill you if you ask if their name's anything to do with the Elton John song.



- Radar Live: Annuals, Friendly Fires and Foals - the hottest new bands in indie nail White Heat at Madame Jo Jos


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- Albums Of The Year! Artists' Albums Of The Year! Tracks Of The Year! It's all here! Find out if your favourite music is being celebrated as the cream of 2006.


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[reviews]

- Once merely flatmates of Klaxons, Pull Tiger Tail are now proud Track Of The Week winners, with Mr 100 Percent. Plus NME says Gwen Stefani's new single Wind It Up is the "worst. single. ever." Ha ha ha ha, aha... aaaah


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- The Killers play London with loads of extra stage trinkets to show how big they are now. Plus, the Transgressive Weekender and Nastyfest on the same weekend in the same city! Where? Leeds of course!



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The Worst Band Name Of The Week Award goes to: These Arms Are Snakes (playing at the Engine Rooms, Brighton, on Wednesday, December 6). For more information on 529 gigs happening this week, turn to page 56 of the magazine


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Don't miss next week!

A bumper Christmas double issue with free My Chemical Romance and Libertines calendars! Yeeeeeessss!

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