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A week of No Rock and Roll Fun.

The ten most popular articles (leaving aside for this week the ones where people hoped to see cocks or tits):
1. Brad Delp RIP
2. MTV dump I'm From Rolling Stone
3. Arctic Monkeys turn fashion designers
4. Has Posh been ripped off by Primark?
5. Racist bully Jo O'Meara protests her innocence
6. Kerry Katona hasn't got a sex tape circulating
7. Fergie thrown off Virgin flight
8. The new Metallica album goes Middle Eastern
9. Pete Doherty offers to throw firebombs at himself
10. HMV decide to try selling coffee instead

Also this week: Jason Donovan pockets a million to tell us what sex with Kylie is like; Iggy Pop inspires a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show; Bloomberg took a close look at Bono and U2's finances; Madonna signs up for plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck and Starbucks moved further into the music industry.

Five years ago this week: The So-Solid Crew were the threat that would eat our children - the police demanded that they be kicked off the Homelands festival bill and - trying to have it both ways - Mean Fiddler agreed while complaining about it; Tony Hadley and Liam Gallagher had a bitchslap fight; Son of Bryan Isaac Ferry got suspended from Eton after sending hate mail to anti-animal-murderer campaigners; the New Statesmen clucked over Slipknot and EMI laid off 1000 workers and dumped many of its acts. That'll steady the ship for, ooh, six months or so.

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The new releases we waved in your face this week were:


Charlotte Hatherley: she'll catch her death in that bath


To mark Regina Spektor's overnight success, a re-release of 2004's Soviet Kitsch


Northern American Scrummy: LCD Soundsystem


Northern American Scrummy: LCD Soundsystem


Apparently, the Frank and Walters have reformed - but in 1997, and have been going ever since


Dolls of Pain: "The style is always also bathed in electro-dark declining, sinking in fetishistic adventures/SM, with a tortured voice, sometimes singing in English, sometimes stressing in French" says Lagouttiere


Merz's 1999 debut gets a re-release, public demand or no public demand


Boy-on-boy punk reissue thrills, as The Queers Move Back Home again


What appears to be a (not unexpectedly) hit-or-miss Red Crayola reissue cycle coughs up Soldier Talk


There's more to Tiny Tim than bloody tulips: Zero Comm reactivates the back catalogue


Yes, yes, we suspect Brett Anderson is wearing a corset for the sleeve of his first solo single - we actually think that's a good thing