FEATURES

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• ARCADE FIRE
  Win Butler takes Laura Snapes deep inside new album ‘Reflektor’ and explains how he and his band learned to loosen up and embrace new rhythms.
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• FLAMING LIPS & TAME IMPALA
  Frontmen Wayne Coyne and Kevin Parker skin-up, sit down and talk Leonie Cooper through their psychedelic side project
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• CATE LE BON
  The Neon Neon and Manics collaborator tells Jenny Stevens how themes of death and responsibility inspired her new record, ‘Mug Museum’.
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• FROM THE VAULT : KEITH RICHARDS 1978
  35 years since Rolling Stone Keith Richards was charged with possession of 22 grams of heroin, we revisit NME’s in-depth reporting of the case

ALSO INSIDE THIS WEEK

• On the set of the new series of Fresh Meat. NME meets the cast, gets the lowdown on series 3 and talks to Gaz Coombes about the music he’s written
• Is Kanye’s god complex out of control? A real life priest has his say
• Sir Bradley Wiggings shares the soundtrack of his life
• In the studio with Warpaint
• Anatomy of an album: Beck ‘Mutations’
• Interviews with:
  • Jake Bugg
  • Savages
  • Musical astronaut Chris Hadfield
  • And a Radar column from Jagwar Ma
• Album Reviews:
  • MIA
  • Connan Mockasin
  • Tinie Tempah
  • Swearin’
  • Kurt Vile
• Caught live:
  • Wet Nuns
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • Wolf Alice
  • Courtney Barnett
  • SWN Festival