Meanwhile, the White Stripes admit they are inveterate liars, and Hooky has a MySpace-induced meltdown.

From Iggy's 'crowd walk' in Cincinatti, to Joy Division playing an Altrincham pub, to David Bowie having a karate lesson, YouTube is full of great glimpses of pop history - fragmented, often grainy, utterly captivating.

Telling a life story with a CD's worth of tunes is not an obviously appealing prospect. But as an alternative to the banality elsewhere in rock music, I'm warming to it.

The soundtrack to Antonioni's 1970 classic, featuring Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead, though far from easy to create, remains a landmark.

The new Hard-Fi album isn't even out yet - and it has already been labelled the worst record sleeve of all time. But surely there are many others that are just as bad? Our critics nominate the art flops that should never have left the drawing board, and you can…

The rather slick My Damn Channel launches today, a web video site set up by a handful of Hollywood execs trying to plug what they see as a demand for professional video content online.