we are recommending you some nice, but longer reads about music, again
it’s a weekend, you have more time, so just go
read and think
and let us know what you think about the recommended subjects
this week you can read and think about these:

OMD [Guardian]
How to lose 3 million fans in one easy step
With just one album, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark more or less destroyed their career. And they weren’t the only ones: the early 1980s were littered with commercial suicides. Bob Stanley finds out how it all went wrong 

Are wacky bands a rock’n'roll sin? [Guardian]
I don’t know about you, but I’m quite partial to a bit of black humour, bad taste, or elegantly crafted pun
Fresh from conquering the DVD market, Flight Of The Conchords – the comedy partnership of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, "formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo" – have announced they’re due to release their self-titled debut album on Warner Bros/Sub Pop. In doing so, they enter somewhat more troublesome waters.

Celebrity junkies
UN attacks celebrity drug use
It looks like one of the most popular subject nowadays and if you think about the everyday appearances of Amy, Peter Doherty or even Britney you just can’t say that this issue is not everywhere. Let’s have see few articles
[BBC] [CNN] [Guardian] [Yahoo]

weird lists about this issue
Top 10 Celebrity Drug Users (living)
Top 20 Celebrity Drug Confessions

They think it’s all over for the NME [TimesOnline]
With the demise of any real rock underground, plus fierce competition from online rivals, the magazine must adapt or die
Last week’s biggest-ever New Musical Express awards show at London’s O2 Arena should have been a triumph for Britain’s longest-serving rock weekly. It was, says the Editor, Conor McNicholas, “one of the greatest nights on my life” watching Klaxons, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs and Manic Street Preachers play to 15,000 indie/rock fans.

But there were glum faces and dark mutterings among the assembled media insiders. One key reason for this gloom was the magazine’s circulation figures for the second half of 2007. Averaging around 64,000 per issue, they are the lowest ever, and a steep decline on previous years.

+ bonus video of the shortest reunion of the music history

posted by AudioPorn Central

Dru Hill gets back together live on 92Q…

…and then breaks up ten minutes later! See all the footage of how it went down live on the radio!