THESE WEEKS JUST GONE...

As you may have spotted, we've been off on holiday and in a holding pattern for the last two and a half weeks (yes, a lovely time, thank you), and in that time, the most popular individual stories have been:

1. Pete Doherty photographed apparently injecting himself
2. The ever-popular 'is KT Tunstall a lesbian'
3. Nick Carter investigated over sexual battery claims
4. Pete Doherty photographed apparently injecting someone else
5. Michael Jackson drafts Crazy Frog man
6. Robbie Williams and James Brown hoiked together by Victoria Beckham
7. Alex James: cheesemaker
8. Charlotte Church is at war with Pink
9. Tom Hanks to make an Abba movie
10. Robbie Williams is like a ten foot ghost or something

You can read the weeks in full:

From 7th May
From 30th April
From 23rd April

Or, take a single gulp of the week before we went off on our holidays

... and these have been stuck on the right awaiting your interest for too long:

Long-awaited return to CD for Lawrence's Life on Mars-esque Denim project

Fourteen years since the last one, Tom Verlaine delivers a new song collection

.... and a bunch of instrumental noodlage

42 track-packed Au Pairs career round-up. Kurt would have loved it.

Astonishingly, even the Beatnik Filmstars have hit the resurrection trail - eight years after splitting, they're back anew

If, like us, you're coming late to Tift Merritt, this double re-release is an excellent catch-up point

For political punks like Anti-Flag, this truly is a golden age of inspiration

Yes, yes, it is brimfull of Asha

Jonathan Richman live in San Francisco in 2002

Natcha Atlas "self-identifies as a trip-hop album"

Polysics album gets a non-import UK release

Neko Case. New Boyfriends. Old album. Sublime treats.

We can just about muster mild curiosity for the brand new Therapy? album

Now... back to normal service...