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PUT YOUR BRITS AWAY: Britney in trouble with her new movie, apparently, as test audiences find Crossroads too "raunchy", leading ...

BLOW-UP: In a way, you could almost feel sorry for The Coup , who would have remained a fairly obscure hip hop band were it not for the acc...

WK A PLANT: MORE EVIDENCE: In this weeks surprisingly good NME stars-pose-questions for Macca piece, party-loving Trojan Horse Andrew WK c...

DURST THOU DARE QUESTION ME? The sad story of the person who died at the Big Day Out continues to rumble on, with the inquest in Australia ...

Fred Durst to visit Ground Zero to get "inspiration" - no comment needed

THAT'LL BE WHY SHE'S ONLY GOT PLASTIC TITS RATHER THAN THE REAL THING: According to the World Press Review on Today this morning, ...

LAZY CUT AND PASTE DIRECT FROM BSN: Peel - John Peel tells the story about weeping on the motorway when Peter "Hello, mates" Po...

SHARE UPDATE: People who count such things are saying that half as many people are swapping music files online compared with this time last...

SPLIT UPDATE: Tim Booth is going to quit James after this tour; Neil Hannon is going solo. Can you say "Midlife crisis"?

PARRYS, TEXAS: So, Sharleen from Texas is putting music on hold to concentrate on developing an acting career, is she? Well, who could tu...

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...