Dears: Oh dear

Montreal is turning in to a music crime blackspot. The Stooges and Clinic have had stuff pinched from there, and now The Dears tourbus has been lifted.

Luckily, it was empty of both equipment and band members when it got pinched, but they'd still like it back:

A plea for information on the missing bus has been put out, the vehicle was a Prevost model, Series 60. Accuride Alcoa; license plate: V957YW.

The bus was taken from outside the Saint Jean Comfort Inn.

Jackson sick

CNN are saying Janet Jackson was rushed to hospital shortly before she was due on stage in Montreal, and who are we to doubt that they checked the word "rushed" before publishing? If CNN says she was "rushed", then she was rushed, and not merely taken.

Bucked trends: Opening a record shop

Proving that there aren't, actually, any hard-and-fast rules about selling music in 2007, a record store has just celebrated its first birthday. Phonopolis, in Montreal, is not only a shop making a success of selling physical product - but 70% of its sales are on vinyl. It's probably about 1990 since there's been a new shop that does that anywhere in the world.