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Amy Winehouse & Mika Album A Horrible Possibility

by Stuart Heritage

Husband in jail, painful cold turkey crack rehabilitation, funny haircut – things are just about as bad as possible for Amy Winehouse at the moment, right?

Nope. Because Mika wants to get in on Amy’s plans for a Christmas album.

Mika seems to be under the impression that an Amy Winehouse Christmas album would be much better with him in it because she’s Jewish and he’s partly related to someone who’s been to Lebanon once, or something. But, hey, anything that exposes Mika to a career-threatening hard drug addiction is fine with us.

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Radiohead In Non-Shocking Number One Album Entry

by Matthew Laidlow

In the depths of the countryside, five men collectively known as Radiohead locked themselves away in a big empty house to make their new album In Rainbows.

People everywhere had high expectations for this one so savvy people like us could call it ‘the return to OK Computer days’ album. Finally in October, an announcement was made that a new album had been created with an immediate release a few days later. Not only would this mean that the traditional three month wait between news of a new album and release would be quashed, but the geeks on the internet wouldn’t have to brave the outside when the big day finally came. And on Monday everyone else got to buy it on CD.

And, according to plan, In Rainbows has shot to number one.

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Paolo Nutini Wants To Record A Led Zeppelin Album

by hecklerspray staff

Paolo Nutini has said he wants Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page to produce his next album. Also, Rhydian has said he wants Bob Dylan to produce his first album, and The Krankies are in talks with Keith Richards.

Of course, that last one isn’t true. Not in your wildest dreams is that true. Neither is the Rhydian one. But the Paulo Nutini one is true and on the cards!

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50 Cent To Help Lindsay Lohan Somehow

by C J Davies

There are a number of things you could ask Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson for advice on.

How to endlessly babble on about that time you got shot, for instance. Or how to sell yourself to as many branding opportunities as possible, to the extent where every slightly dim teenager in the world is decked out in a pair of Fiddy-approved trainers and sipping on a can of Official ‘Keeping It Real’ Misogyny-Flavour Pepsi.

You wouldn’t, however, go asking him any questions about the production of music. Unless, that is, you wanted your new album to sound like his: roughly the same as a slowed-down Geoff Boycott mumbling about bitches over a Casio keyboard ‘polka’ setting.

It seems like no-one told Lindsay Lohan this.

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Nas Turns Into Dog The Bounty Hunter, Sort Of

by Matthew Laidlow

As you’re all probably aware, there is a slight stink being fussed up about Dog The Bounty Hunter and what he said about his son’s girlfriend, thanks to his use of the word ‘nigger’ and how much it offends people.

So now you’d imagine that anyone who wants to escape with their career intact would avoid using that word in public like the plague, wouldn’t you? You should try explaining that to Nas, who’s decided to step into this odd situation. Not that anyone seems to have noticed, mind you. Nas is bringing out a record that’s tediously called Nigger. How convenient.

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Hardly Anyone Pays For Radiohead’s New Album

by Stuart Heritage

When Radiohead announced that fans could pay whatever they wanted for new album In Rainbows, it was meant to show that a band could trust its fans to acknowledge all the work that goes into an album’s creation and pay accordingly.

Yeah, hasn’t happened. Of all the people who downloaded In Rainbows last month, less than half of them actually paid anything at all for it, it’s been revealed. According to researchers ComScore, only about 40% of people who downloaded In Rainbows by Radiohead decided that paying money to hear it was a good idea, spending an average sum of just $2.26 for it. Although this could be seen as a disastrous embarrassment for Radiohead, the band shouldn’t get too downhearted – after all, most bands would struggle to charge $2.26 for a bunch of songs that sound like a bunch of Broken Social Scene B-sides in the first place.

When Radiohead announced that fans could pay whatever they wanted for new album In Rainbows, it was meant to show that a band could trust its fans to acknowledge all the work that goes into an album's creation and pay accordingly. Yeah, hasn't happened. Of all the people who downloaded In Rainbows last month, less than half of them actually paid anything at all for it, it's been revealed. According to researchers ComScore, only about 40% of people who downloaded In Rainbows by Radiohead decided that paying money to hear it was a good idea, spending an average sum of just $2.26 for it. Although this could be seen as a disastrous embarrassment for Radiohead, the band shouldn't get too downhearted - after all, most bands would struggle to charge $2.26 for a bunch of songs that sound like a bunch of Broken Social Scene B-sides in the first place.
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