This week just gone

The ten-most read individual stories so far this year on No Rock:

1. R Kelly's alleged sex with teenage girl video admissible, rules court
2. Lily Allen fans hope to see her naked breasts
3. McFly get their clothes off
4. Heather Mills loosely associated with modern porn
5. Beth Ditto strips for NME, no apparent reason
6. Jools Holland recorded, discovers surprised Daily Mail
7. KT Tunstall's sexuality debated
8. Nelly Furtardo Playboy pictures - it'll never happen
9. RIP John Stewart
10. Martin Crandall arrested [He was, of course, never charged]

This week, these were quite interesting releases:


Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster Surely, we should be getting a bank holiday for the release of the first LC! album?


Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree Pirates this time, then


Sargasso Trio - Burnin' Burnin' Burnin'


Die So Fluid - Not Everyone Gets A Happy Ending


Hawksley Workman - Between The Beautifuls


The Orb - The Dream First album in eight years and, yes, they're still doing ordinary length tracks


Kelpe - Ex-Aquarium


Neil Diamond - Velvet Gloves And Spit Diamond gets the Rev-ola treatment


Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Replicas 2008 Tour Edition Tory-voting, monarchy-supporting, plane-crashing, cyborg-kissing revivalist electropop thrills


Sebastian Tellier - Sexuality


Our Miss Fred Another movie about cross-dressing and Nazis


Simon Reynolds - Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture