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• THE 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
  The album is an artform by which any act worth caring about wants to be judged. Inside this week’s NME, we grant them that pleasure as we rank of the 500 greatest records of all time. Let the arguments begin…

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• s Morrissey’s new book the best music biog ever? The Smiths, sexuality and a shoeing for NME. What’s not to like?
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• Are the UK’s small venues in crisis (again)? Jehnny Beth from Savages thinks so. But what’s the truth?
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• Yannis from Foals shares the soundtrack of his life

ALSO INSIDE THIS WEEK

• In the studio with MIA
• Anatomy of an album: The Strokes ‘Room On Fire’
• Interviews with:
  • Tim Burgess
  • Bonehead
  • Angel Haze
  • Jimi Hendrix’s brother
  • Gesaffelstein
• Album Reviews:
  • Arcade Fire
  • Icona Pop
  • Lorde
  • Pusha T
  • Deer Tick
  • Mø
• Caught live:
  • The Orwells
  • Jagwar Ma
  • Simple Things Festival
  • MGMT
  • PLUS! Full Radar report from CMJ Festival in New York