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HER HARDEST TASK: Becky Bamboo, off to review Rhett Miller's show. Can she do it without being arrested? Let's see: Let's esta...

IT ALWAYS REMINDS ME OF THAT DAIRY: The good people at Lowsley Sounds - home, amongst other things, to Zombina and the Skeletones and the m...

MORE REASONS: BBC Online's 100 Reasons tour diary has cranked into action again, as the band travel to the Bizarre Festival in Germany...

RIGHTO, I SEE: Alex James has started keeping a diary on the blur website, whereupon he seems to fill gaps between stints in the studio bl...

JEREMY VINE: We hope this wasn't directed at us... (from last night's Newsnight mail out) We'll also be talking about the inte...

Radio City [NY] settles Rockettes dispute

DON'T CROSS THE SOUL TRAIN'S TRACKS: Of course, by now you'll be sick of the whole tale of the boy who took on Soul Train's...

... TRAIL OF DEAD AT CARPETS: Looking forward to a point in time when Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are on Leno (this won't be as weird a...

LISTEN4EVER NOT 4EVER: The four ISPs who'd refused to buckle to the RIAA's demands that they block their customers access to the co...

CONVOLUTED AND PROBABLY MADE UP: Not that we'd ever question the mighty Ananova , but the story about thirty-two deaf people turning up...

AND SHE WOULDN'T SLEEP WITH HIM, EITHER: Winning the prize this week for sourest grapes, it's Justin Timberlake's gran, who re...

DUMBING DOWN: So, Charlotte Church got grade a* in her music GCSE... clearly a sign the exams are getting easier...?

PUT IT TO USE: We're not sure what the point of an "opportunity to break into the Music Business" advertising on the back of ...

NOT ALL MELTDOWNS ARE CURATED AT THE SOUTH BANK: Nice one, RollingStone.com , for its fifty greatest meltdowns in rock - which might sound ...

CALL AND RESPONSE: Writing in the Washington Post , David Segal trots out the standard RIAA line about how all them blank CD-Rs show the wh...

POPBITCH TWANG: We were mildly amused to see this on the bottom of today's mail-out: Please send stories, gossip, news. Particularly o...

GREAT BALLS OF BRITON: So, the BBC is launching some sort of trawl to find the Greatest Briton who ever lived, and they let The Public draw...

BANDS WE'D FORGOTTEN HAD EVEN EXISTED: Fluffy - aka We've Got A Fuzzbox We Bought on Our Daddy's Expense Account. According to...

TRIBAL GATHERING RETURNS: For the first time in five years, the acme of acid, the ruler of rave, the Tribal Gathering returns. Only this ti...

THE BAMBOO REVIEW: BETH ORTON: Becky goes to see Beth, because we probably couldn't have coped: this was my second time to try and see...

WHAT THE POP PAPERS SAY: The 'doesn't that fan go up to four?' edition Boy George is cross with Eminem. He told the Observer m...

PLEASE GOD NO: Ally McCoist makes record

DEVELOPMENTS: While we're in Liverpool, lets pop into Quiggins, shall we? Boasting record stores, clothes shops, flea markets and every...

WE KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT: And, we know from our search engine returns that, betting without sickfucks who are after S Club Junior porn,...

THAT'S ME MARK PAGE, SIR: You have to pity the poor squaddie - not only are they sent to fight in tanks that can't cross a patch of...

EVERYTHING'S GOING GREEN?: In a year where festivals have been collapsing all over the place - Manchester Pride looks set to go the way...

ROCK PHILOSOPHY 101: Action Attack Helicopter Magazine ponders the question: Just what is a one-hit wonder? (From our point of view, we us...

NET CLOSES ON NETHEADS?: Deputy Assistant (US) Attorney General John Malcolm has said that, were it not for Sep'ven, prosecutions of in...

MEN TO GO: Women.com have just produced their 12 sexiest men in rock results, and amongst the obvious-but-perplexing likes of Jon Bon Jovi...

SIMON PICKS UP LONG SPOON: Following McCartney's vague decision to not turn up to receive a Kennedy Center award this year, Paul Simon ...