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"Just Gimme Indie Rock!": four simple, yet life changing words. Lou Barlow's prophetic scream is 20 years old this year, the age when one no longer visits home from university and has the first experience of unpaid electricity bills. Second year into a new life, when deadlines are jumping off points for further negotiations and a Yellow Card is gold dust. Didn't it grow up fast! I'm proud of indie rock for getting here; it's had a difficult upbringing. First it had to survive grunge and britpop, then the dad-rock wars, when many a once great band [...]

A study by British scientists has found that the mysterious G-spot, the sexual pleasure zone said to be possessed by some women but denied to others, may not exist at all . The scientists at King's College London who carried out the study claim there is no evidence for the existence of the G-spot after trying to "finger" the culprit on 1,800 British women. "Women may argue that having a G-spot is due to diet or exercise, but in fact it is virtually impossible to find real traits," said Tim Spector, [...]

Anyone not in the know might have thought tonight was a joint headlining show. Such was the strength of main support, Manchester's The Answering Machine . We could use many phrases to describe them, however we'll nick one from a guy stood behind us to his mate: "They're like the Strokes if they'd been to Art School and didn't have money, together with Franz Ferdinand if they'd bunked off Art School or if they'd not spent years poncing around". Couldn't have put it better myself. Angular, fast paced and smartly dressed at first [...]

• The Answering Machine - Another City, Another Sorry

Last night, K asked me what I thought we should do on Christmas Eve. Since this will be our first Christmas together as a family (of four), we want to do something or things that will become our family traditions. Visit the blog to hear some great music! When I was a child, my family - probably like most of you - went to church for a Christmas Eve service. When my sister and I were old enough, this sometimes translated into a trip to the beautiful [...]

• The Choir of King's College (Cambridge) - Once in Royal David's City