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Dido forced out of Best Female Newcomer category at Brits. Unclear which word she was disqualified on.

BBC RADIO RESHUFFLE: The BBC launch Five Live Plus in March. What's that got to do with music? Not much, except that in its wake will c...

JACKDAW TAKES SOME LOOKING AFTER: Cerys' new song-from-kids-TV-show is up online, at the Radio One Session In Wales site, in both loc...

TAKE HIVE: The Hives currently leading the Amazon hour-by-hour chart , which sort-of-suggests that this year is getting off to a start a b...

YOU THINK WE'RE OUT-OF-DATE?: NME currently offering tickets to last year's cancelled Catatonia gig. Meanwhile, Cerys has returne...

From slightly scrappy starts, we grew like this: 07 January 2001 14 January 2001 21 January 2001 ...

SXSW LINE UP: Chicks on Speed, Beulah, Clinic, all going to be doing the 2002 Souht by SouthWest festival - following on from a year when t...

ILL WIND: Amazon's hot music chart reporting that Big Country's entered the most requested albums chart - albeit at number 99. Che...

FURTHER LAZY BSN CUT AND PASTE: Fran Healy announces to the world that he wants to impregnate his girlfriend. "Maybe we could have ...

ANOTHER LAZY CUT AND PASTE FROM BOTHSIDESNOW : Bowie divorces Virgin; tells Iman: "The bank's with me, my manager's with m...

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...