• 50 Cent doesn’t have to die tryin’ to get totally loaded: The Massacre topped the charts as highest selling album of 2005. (You know, ‘cuz he was poor before). [NYDN]
• Pete Doherty’s New Year’s resolution is to overcome “dead-monkey-brain-tabloid-fever”. In f’d up language, that means heroine and Jack addictions. [NME]
• A suburban mother is fighting a suit which claims that she illegally downloaded songs, including Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life” . She doesn’t “look like someone” who would listen to Third Eye, but most of us do travel in disguise. [Billboard]
• Once again, the New York Times is on top of the trends. Who knew that the internet was changing the independent music scene? [NYT]
• Hellogoodbye, famous only for their involvement in the disaster that was Real World: Austin, somehow figured out a way to use AOL IM sounds in their songs. Now if they could only find a way to market this spectacle. [Spin]