Megastores, internet shopping and downloading have been a disaster for Britain's independent record shops. Laura Barton picks 20 of the best. Ten years after his own (brief) death, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse is clean, sober and making records again, with a little help from Tom Waits.
He tells Amy Raphael how he came back to life.
Now, in her 30s, Juliette Lewis would rather make music than whoopee.
But despite her shady past, Stacy Ferguson, singer with the Black Eyed Peas, is like her namesake in one respect: she's not afraid of going solo.
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