This week’s NME (9 September 2008)

Ladyhawke is interviewed in the latest edition of NME magazine on being "a bumbling fool," performing live ("sometimes I’m so shy I feel like I can’t even sing,") and felines ("I had a cat all my life, but he wasn’t a nice cat"). Pic: Dean Chalkley

It’s ‘Greatest Hits’ time for The Coral – check out what NME made of the Hoylake group’s singles’ collection in this week’s issue, on newsstands now.

This week’s NME cover stars Late Of The Pier give an exclusive interview about their bid to takeover the music scene from their mansion studio. "The desired effect and aim is to slowly decay the roots of all the shit music being released nowadays," unveils singer Sam. For this, plus the verdict on Oasis’ live comeback, pick up your copy of NME, on sale across the UK this week.

Die! Die! Die! onstage at the Hainault Forest Country Park-based Offset Festival. Pick up your copy of the latest edition of NME, which hits shelves this week, for a full review of the late August alt-fest, with Metronomy, Maccabees, Gang Of Four and more. Pic: Ben Cannon

In this week’s NME The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian speaks candidly about growing up in New Jersey ("the dirt just comes with you when you’re born") and The Meaning Of Soul ("It’s a yearning – the sound of the rumble of the very big frustration in the belly of man"). For further Gaslight musings check out the September 13 edition of NME. Pic: Andy Willsher

Late Of The Pier are interviewed in this week’s issue of NME, dated September 13, on everything from Klaxons ("the only thing we share with them is a sense of the fantastical") through to "how John Lennon could influence gamma rays in his mind" and taking jam sessions in their pyjamas. Pic: Ed Miles

Castle Donington’s Late Of The Pier reveal "we lie all the time – we can’t be bothered to tell the truth," in an interview with NME. Read the full story in the issue which hits shelves this week and catch the band live on tour throughout the UK this October. Pic: Ed Miles

Gobby Northern punk-rockers Twisted Wheel are interviewed for Radar in the latest edition of NME. The trio – frontman Jonny Brown, bassist Rick Lees and drummer Adam Clarke – formed in February last year triggering an A&R frenzy and much Monkeys labelling: "I hate the Arctic Monkeys comparisons! We’re different – it annoys me," spits Jonny. Read the full story in the issue. Pic: Danny North

MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser are planning a new double album. The duo reveal in News in the new issue of NME that: "We thought we’d go for the cliched, overly-ambitious sophomore album," but admitted they didn’t have any fully-formed songs for it yet – "We’ve been kinda partying…" Pic: James Quinton

In 2006 singer Mikel Jollett of LA punkers The Airbourne Toxic Event learned that he had a life-threatening genetic disease. The next day he discovered his mother had cancer, broke up with his girlfriend, quit work and one month later he formed the band. "The feeling wasn’t that I had so much more to say but that I had less time to say it…" he reveals in Radar, in the September 13 issue of NME, out now. Pic: Pamela Littky