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WEB PERVERTS: Michael Jackson is going to do an online chat with his fans. Hmmm... maybe there is something in those panics about perverts p...

SHED SEVEN: from an email I've just written: I quite like some shed seven. but... they're kind of like a butcher's shop. You k...

WK, II: So, they're desperate to build some sort of myth around Andrew WK, and guess what? There's now a backstory , suggesting tha...

IF YOU DON'T WANT SO MANY PEOPLE TO GO, LET US LET MORE PEOPLE COME: The artist update are reporting the following: Organisers of the G...

AMAZON IF YOU LIKE... YOU MAY LIKE...: Interestingly, according to amazon , people who buy Andrew WK have also bought The White Stripes. So,...

ELLIS-BEXTOR FANS FIGHT "WANK" SLUR: Is asking Sophie E-B if she frigs herself really disrespecting her? And is it that perverte...

WK - TROJAN HORSE: While doing this week's pop press review (goes out live on bothsidesnow on a Wednesday, and I'll probably get r...

THINGS IN MUSIC I HATE: Number One: How much do I hate people who call "entry fee" or "ticket price" "door tax....

Free Charlatans CD this week, with... um, the Daily Telegraph... Right...

SAVE THE SUGDENS : The whole Farm Aid thing has started to blow up in everyone's faces - U2 and the Williams moaned at for not taking p...

WAKING UP AND RUBBING EYES: - yes, we've been doing other things, okay? But now we're back with this... the MTV video awards, 2001 ...

Following on from Defenestration last week, this week The Archers have been paying homage to Cerys , although whether Hayley - in real-life ...

IT GETS WORSE: As if attempting to keep a quarter of a million people away from Newcastle, pretending that it was going to be The Love Week...

YOU CAN JUDGE A CD BY THE COMPANY IT KEEPS: A brief survey of things that Amazon purchasers of albums also buy. Coldplay - Parachutes ...

MORE LOVE LOST: This from the Radio 1 website , a statement from Mr. P: "Statement from Andy Parfitt, Controller Radio 1, Mon 16 July,...

LOVE PARADE DE-RAILED: Hopefully the cancellation of the Love Parade may make Radio One think twice before cooking up any more of these hal...

NOW WE'RE SQUEAKY CLEAN... ISH: NeedToKnow has helpfully transcribed the two versions of D12's purple hills/pills, showing that app...

SCARY: What links Justine Frischmann to some slightly odd-shaped Cybermen? Dare you find out?

THE SMILE ALBUM: The Washington Post has theories about why rock stars never smile in photos... • The blues: Rock bands have been channeli...

ABOUT TIME, TOO: Catatonia website in update shock. Although all they've done is changed the front page and put a sign up box and thats...

Nice to hear Defenestration getting a mention on the Archers this week...

NEW NEW ORDER: Hmmm... so what to make of that new New Order single? Nice to have Gillian - if, indeed, Gillian it is - doing a bit more v...

PERHAPS ITS AN HOMAGE: The Roger Sanchez Another Chance video is pretty good, but, man, is it just a copy of the Daft Punk dog video. Whic...

HMV sale: So, another mega sale at HMV, and although both them and Virgin do the same thing almost year-round now - some of the unsold sing...

OH, SURPRISE FUCKING SURPRISE: Why, yes, they did find some extra New Order tickets hidden down the back of the Ottoman. Which must piss o...

NO SELL: So, that New Order gig sold out in about three seconds, then. Unless the people at Liverpool Olympia come up with a way of gettin...

SO, HOW EXACTLY IS NAPSTER KILLING MUSIC?: So, despite all this so called piracy and theivery, there's been increases way above infla...

NEW STUFF ONLINE: For some reason, its taken a fucking age, but there's a load of new stuff at bothsidesnow - a 1981 vintage Smash Hit...

THE JUNE OVERHAUL HAS BEEN FUELLED BY... stuff we've enjoyed hearing while we kept inadvertently deleting the altered images lyric page...

GENUINE BUT STRANGE YAHOO GROUPS: punkrockbowling - for people who like to listen to punk rock as they bowl oi jesus - skinheads for je...