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HOW THE BPI CACKLE WHEN THEY RUIN A MAN'S LIFE: The tale of John Stewart, a former police superintendent, is an interesting one. He and...

AARON NEARLY GOES UP IN SMOKE: Nobody would get any pleasure from the thought of anyone, even Aaron Carter, burning to death in a car, so i...

A STRANGE PERSPECTIVE: We suspect BPI head Peter Jamieson is the sort of bloke who has trouble seeing anything other than the rain symbols ...

THE WORLD THE RIAA IS MAKING: Seven year old Julia Illana went to North Carolina Museum of Art, to see some of the great works by the agele...

A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT: It's not unusual - especially at a festive time - for an artist to turn up too sloshed to entertain. So, You Am ...

THE WORLD HERE BEING DEFINED AS THE BIT BETWEEN CARLISLE AND BRIGHTON: While we would never want to point out the weakness in Robbie Willia...

MORE CHRISTMAS ENGAGEMENTS: Presumably happy that - now he's been reduced to walk-ons on daytime TV dressed as a cake - he's not go...

NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ACTION: ... it's time for mawkish sentiment. As if the terrible prospect of Mike Read's Grief Never Dies wa...

I COLLECT, I REJECT: Gwen Stefani clearly has decided to vaccuum up as much cash as humanely possible off the back of her debut solo album,...

PROFESSOR SHEILA, TAKE A BOW: And you thought The Smiths were the ultimate student band... it seems there hasn't been anything like eno...

A RADICAL READING OF THE TEXT: VH1 in the states boradcast a programme about Kiss a few times last summer. During the course of the program...

A DECLARATION OF PEACE: We got a little over-excited when we read the headline Settlement in Bill Monroe Mandolin Fight , as we were hopin...

35MM JOY: There have been mutterings about it for about a year or so, but it seems that goodsense hasn't actually prevailed and, yes, A...

THE PAST IS ALWAYS WAITING ROUND THE CORNER TO CATCH YOU: Alex Kapranos might have thought that changing his name from the more workaday Al...

"WHOOPS... I'VE KILLED HER": Oddly, considering he's now claiming that Lana Clarkson shot herself, the police have told a...

MORE DOGS: Ignoring the old injunction that dogs aren't, you know, just for Christmas, Britney Spears has got another dog . And create...

IT'S A GOOD CAUSE, AT LEAST: The millennium stadium in Cardiff had more or less got no choice but to pull together a Lite Aid gig for t...

SINGLES NOW LAST YEAR - OFFICIAL: It was inevitable, but it still feels like a moment: last week legitimate, sold, approved by BPI download...

OR YOU COULD HELP JUST BY STAYING AT HOME : Not that she actually is, of course, but Lindsay Lohan has been musing about getting her hands ...

I COULD DO THAT...: Robbie Williams is said to be really, really broken up that Queen didn't want him to step into Freddie Mercury'...

THEY'RE BACK. WE'RE OFF: Apparently the totally-re-recorded Oasis album is now ready to roll, and Noel says it's the Best Oasis...

THEY'RE BACK. WE'RE OFF: Lumbering across the music media, like spotting a guest at a party who kept you pressed to a wall discussi...

MANAGEROBIT: The death has been announced of Danny Sugerman , the manager of The Doors. In a rather alarming piece of imagery, Ray Manzarek...

NO CASE OVER THE CASES: Blackground records' attempt to sue the video producer who arranged Aa;iyah's final flight have been throw...

NEVER TRUST A DRUMMER: God alone knows what he did to upset her, but a woman who'd been back to the house of Los Lonely Boys drummer fi...

SANCTUARY MUCH: We're not sure how many more big impact acts Sanctuary have to sign before they become "major", but they'...

IN THE LORD'S NAME, WHY?: Oh, good god, Fischerspooner are about to try and refloat themselves off the back of the Scissor Sister's...

NOT SO MUCH WITH THE PR FOR HIM NOW: As he recovers from surgery for prostate cancer, James Brown is hearing from old friends and colleague...

VOTING PLUG... AND A VOTING PLUG: The rather nice people at Plug are currently inviting all-comers to invite in the Plug Independent Music ...

RIDE IT... OVER?: Even though she's hardly playing the Royal Albert Hall, reports are that Geri Halliwell is having trouble shifting ti...