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ANOTHER CLOSURE: Shame to hear that Liverpool's second-greatest clubnight, Voodoo (and I mean second to Liquidation, not The Big Superm...

OF COURSE one of the most worrying things about the US imposing tariffs on steel imports is what this means for the Bruce Springstein. ...

NOT THAT: John Robb , and also not that Gomez, either...

DOTMUSIC SOLD: Dotmusic, which used to be the old Music Week website before the great web boom led Lord Hollick to sniff money and made it ...

IMUSES BACK FROM LIMBO: Yay... good news... Throwing Muses have reformed. Like, the proper, full, band. Tanya and Kristen. Nothing before 2...

SORRY to hear that Tommy Boy have closed. Never really my first choice as a label, but even so...

PHEW: Of course, when bands release new stuff you wait with baited breath - if its an excellent band, you worry that they may have lost it....

NO SURPRISES: If I thought the Brits were too moribund to even bother mentioning, then I spose I should feel lucky that I'm not Irish. ...

STILL, MAKES A CHANGE FROM SMASHING GIRL'S FACES IN: Compare and contrast November 6th, 2001 Exclusive: So Solid Harvey speaks out ag...

HEY! IS THAT WHERE THEY RIPPED THEIR STYLE FROM?: Yes, and now we're pinching text direct from www.ntk.net : Forget Bob Dylan, Tony Be...

INTEREST PEAKS: XRRF has had its most popular twenty-four hours - not because of our overview of the Grammys or the Brat awards, but becaus...

IF IT GETS US ON JUST ONE CHAT SHOW, IT'LL BE WORTH IT: Curious that couple emerge with pictures of their dead, drug raddled daughter t...

DO YOU THINK I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE GRAMMYS?: Well, for a start I do wonder why the plural isn't Grammies. And why are they 'Gramm...

TRAVIS DROPS ONE, DROPS BOLLOCK When the odious Betts woman has a pop at Travis, you wonder which side you should be cheering for, don'...

R KELLY? NOT ON YOUR NELLY... So, apparently the internet is chock full of videos of R Kelly having sex with a fourteen year old girl. What...

FOR ONE WEEK ONLY: Usually, if you want bothsidesnow's What the Pop Papers Say review, you have to be subscribed to the list. But beca...

SEATTLE: GOOD AT MOPPING UP?: Interesting piece from The Stranger about a singer in a marginally well-known Seattle band (and, before you a...

ALL YOUR DATA IS BELONG TO US: If you're using Windows Media Player, everything you run through it - CD tracks, DVD movies, MP3s - is b...

QUOTE: Laurence Robinson, salesman-turned-tenor: "There are similarities between selling and singing, because as a singer, you're ...

VIDEO SAVES THE ROCK STAR AT KILLING?: Hmmm, so Fred Durst is now offering to testify at the inquest into the Squished Bizkit fan death in...

EPITONIC FOR THE TROOPS: Having stopped to snigger at the description of indie on the epitonic site the other day, I was going to go on to ...

CAUGHT IN A PRISON OF THEIR OWN MAKING: You wonder if the record industry are starting to wish they'd left Napster alone, since the fal...

SPOOKIER YET: Meat is Murder just cropped up in Round Britain Quiz . I am being stalked by Mozzer.

THE DRESS YOU SO FESTIVELY TRY: Spooky pop-related things, number one in a series: Yesterday evening, I'd been dancing round in the kit...

INDIE PORN: According to Epitonic's Indie board , indie porn and pornography are similar. They say its because you can't describe w...

THEY'RE NOT GRRRRRR-EAT: So, there on Wednesday night was Elton John, popping up on Newsnight to describe modern pop as being like boxe...

CODE BROKEN: One of the joys of being young and giddy in the 1980s was Cath Carroll's music and writing for the the nme, so it was a d...

QUICK UPDATE: Eavis has been clambering in and out of bed with the Mean Fiddler; when the music stopped, he was in. So for the next five ye...

YOU'RE DAMNED IF YOU DO...: You could almost feel sorry for Michael Eavis. No sooner had music fans, The Times and others been on his ...

YOU CAN'T STOP THEM, THEY ARE ROCK: There's an interview with the Charlatan's Tony Rogers in today's Belfast Newsletter , w...