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		Punks of the year (so far), Wives tour the UK from late September. We'd tell you more but only one thing really needs saying about a band of this quality: go see or we'll boil wash your kid brother's cat...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Jay-Z, um, isn't Jay-Z anymore. The rapper told reporters at Tuesday night's GQ Awards, albeit through someone else, that he would not take kindly to them referring to him as Jay-Z. Instead, he insisted that he should now be called Shawn Carter.»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Someone, some where, right now, is making too much money...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Oldie rockers Status Quo are to make a guest appearance on ITV soap opera Coronation Street, as part of the channel's 50th anniversary celebrations.»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Arcade Fire bassist Tim Kingsbury has said that the Montreal band won't play any more UK shows until their next album is completed...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		For those of you who haven't already broken the law and spoiled the excitement by downloading the new LP from a peer-to-peer service, Icelandic post-rock beauty-mongerers Sigur Rós have made their entire new album available for listening on Myspace.
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		"Canada's best kept secret" tour the UK in support of their ace new single 'Memorize The City'...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Manchester hardcore outfit Beecher release their second album - their first for Earache - This Elegy, His Autopsy on September 12th...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Massive metallers (we're talking profile, not girth!) Mastodon have announced a series of UK shows around their appearance at the Mars Volta-curated Nightmare Before Christmas ATP event...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		A significantly healthy choice of the UK's finest talent are in studios across the world as we speak/write recording Help: A Day in the Life' for the Warchild charity.»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Fightstar roll themselves out of the studio and on to the road next month in support of their forthcoming debut album...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Comedian and one-time Shooting Star Vic Reeves is to get his own radio show on Virgin...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Michael Jackson - currently residing in the Middle East following that court case - is to return to the US to work on a Hurrican Katrina chairty single...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Antony And The Johnsons take the 2005 Mercury Music Prize.»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Stop with your hoo-haa and boo-hoo! Feeder, rockers what might've been splitting up yesterday according to this very site, aren't, basically...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Stupidly brilliant hardcore outfit Since By Man are to release their follow-up album to 2003's excellent-with-bells-on debut We Sing The Body Electric next month...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Feeder frontman and pink All Star-wearing fella Grant Nicholas told reporters at the weekend's PS2 Weekender that the band's upcoming album will be their last...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Sean Paul returns to the nation's popular music charts on September 12th with new single 'We Burnin''...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Acclaimed tunesmiths My Morning Jacket have cancelled a brace of London dates over the next couple of days...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Philadelphia indie types Dr Dog, who release their single 'The World May Never Know' on September 26th through Rough Trade, are to play a last-minute show tonight at the Barfly in Camden...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Thrill Jockey-signed trio Pit er Pat hit Britain for the first time this month, and are releasing a limited-edition tour EP as way of celebration...»
	 
 
	
	
		
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		Tickets for next year's Reading and Leeds Festivals (you know, sponsored by some awful beer or other) are already on sale through Ticketmaster...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme fainted on stage in Germany on Monday, prompting rumours that the band might have to cancel their European tour...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Indie dah-lings The Rakes have pulled out of both The Electric Picnic bash in Dublin (September 4th) and the Bestival, um, festival on the Isle Of Wight (September 9th)...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		OCS, a duo featuring John Dwyer of Coachwhips and Patrick Mullens of Burmese, are totour the UK in October in support of their new double-disc release, 3 & 4 (pictured).»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Snoop Dogg is to dip a toe into the vast pond of skateboarding by launching a range of boards and acccessories...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Gwen Stefani, whose latest single 'Cool' was released on Monday, has told a womens' weekly rag that she considers herself to be fat and ugly...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Recently self-proclaimed "real iron maiden" and X-Factor judge-type android Sharon Osbourne has told someone, some where, that she used to do it in the dark with Ozzy...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		Squeaky-clean popper-cum-actress Hilary Duff, known to legions of pre-teen girls for her role as Lizzie McGuire, has accused her peers of being too raunchy...»
	 
 
	 
	
		
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		The Only Terrestrial Television Music-Related Show Worth Watching, Popworld, is to return for a new series on September 17th...»