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The ten most-read individual stories this week:
1. R Kelly video of ill-advised sex will get shown in court
2. Lily Allen on the Eurostar
3. Amy Winehouse: something under the skin
4. RIP Jeff Healey
5. McFly remove their boxer shorts
6. Charlatans free album download hits the web
7. Beth Ditto bares all for NME
8. Robbie Williams recalls his first love
9. Blake Sennett engaged to Winona Ryder; out shoplifting for wedding favours
10. Helsinki: The Babyshambles/Strokes supergroup
These releases we marked as 'interesting':
Bauhaus - Go Away White The Maxell ads have dried up, so it's back to the studio
Black Francis - Svn Fngrs Frank still doesn't quite shake the 'disappointing' tag from his solo career
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash Quite the week for lead singers of heroes of American Alt Rock in reduced circumstances
Malcolm Middleton - Sleight Of Hand
Thomas Denver Jonsson - The Lake Acts Like An Ocean
The B-52s - Funplex This would be your yin to Bauhaus's reactivated yang, then
Robyn Hitchcock - Shadow Cat
Cazmechanic - The Secret Life of the Wife of the Captain of the Ship in a Bottle on the Mantle Piece
Kathryn Williams & Neil MacColl - Two
The Cardigans - Best Of It says everything about how much the Ronseal 'treat the public as if they need every bloody thing spelled out for them' approach has seized marketing that this isn't called Erase & Rewind
Autechre - Quaristice
Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig The funniest Nick Cave album ever. Admittedly, not saying much.
OMD - Dazzle Ships A thoughtful band whose career was trashed simply because their singer couldn't dance
2 comments:
'Svn Fngrs' is a fine record and great fun; certainly beats the latest Breeders album!
You might think I'm hypocritical, I hate the apparent need to take sides in a Charles vs Kim debate that seems endemic in some parts of the media; they're both on pretty good terms, even though there's no immediate liklihood of a new Pixies record.
It's a good record, but I'm not sure its a great record; I've still been waiting for something from Black Frank Francis that gives me chills the way that the early Pixies stuff did - he's entertaining, but not essential.
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