The Ultimate Glastonbury Review – Inside This Week’s NME
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Child sacrifices! Opium addiction! Zen meditation! Following their difficult but influential second album ‘Congratulations’, NYC’s MGMT fill us in on the influences behind their brilliantly challenging self-titled third album.

Beck Hansen talks us through his new series of 12-inch singles and playing with an orchestra in space-suits.

The immense Atlantans play three albums in full at All Tomorrow’s Parties, but which was best?

LA’s rising Springsteen rockers Papa tell Radar why they’d ”rather live as a monk than a rock star”.

Andrew WK’s 24-hour drum solo! A dig through Wayne Coyne’s biggest influences! Fuck Buttons and Janelle Monae interviewed! And These New Puritans, Frank Turner, Patti Smith, Ruen Brothers, Sky Ferreira, Hebronix, Daughn Gibson and the Pussy Riot documentary reviewed!