Passionate about the control and self determination afforded by the Internet Silverman have enjoyed over 500,000 downloads and won Best Music Award at the worlds first Internet Film and Music Festival in Los Angeles. With the party sponsored by Viagra, says Silverman's co-founder Martin Williams, « we weren't short of somewhere to hang our coats. »

Caustic, cruel duet « Ctrl Alt Del » will remind you of Gainsbourg and Birkin, or Cave and Kylie, with music courtesy of, perhaps, Massive Attack. « Can I have my heart back, please? » has you thinking of a tormented Cocteau Twins, with a broken Anna's sad request buried beneath a wave of brutal electro-noise. Themes include sex, death and lingering pain, though the sex is (tellingly?) not gender-specific.

Over 80 brilliant live performances in the last 12 months including Main stage at the Ashton Court Festival, Warwick University, Oxford Oriel and Pembroke Colleges, The Birmingham Song Writers Festival, Manchester In The City, London Borderline, Bush Hall, Kashmir Klub, LSE and numerous Universities and colleges.

Here are my favorites:
 Secret Baby
 Can I Have My Heart Back Please?

Enjoy, and remember to share!

Here's a roundup of the latest discoveries in the ever-expanding weedspace.

New sites

More and more artists and labels are adding Weed files to their websites, and Cut-Out, NewHatRecords, Second Coming, Skin Yard, and The Watershed are among the converted.

The newest addition to the webring is weedgrrl.com, featuring the best GoGirlsMusic.com artists & bands.

New distributors?

You own a website and are thinking about distributing Weed files? Starter kits were made for you. They includes 5$ worth of Weed files and everything you need to add them to your site. The first few kits have begun to sprout up here and there:

• http://www.weed-files.com/starterkit.asp
• http://wedgey.com/starter/index.asp
• http://christianweed.com/starter.htm
• http://tunes.hungry-media.com/starter-femalefocus.php
• http://tunes.hungry-media.com/starter-chillout.php

Interested in having your own dedicated Weed site? WeedTracks.com's owners are selling theirs for 1000 Euros. The deal includes the domain name and the website content. The site gets around 1300 unique visitors per month and is still growing.

New music

ChristianWeed has the music of new artists Derek McCorkell and Marty Miller.

5 new songs from Mark Hewer and 1 new song from Jason Peri are now available on Weedtunes.com. Jason's piece, titled "Share your Weed," could very well be the first Weed theme song.

There are 9 new Mix-A-Lot tunes up at www.sirmixalot.info.

Brisbane's Ceremony have unleashed their debut single "Filthy Grudge" in Weed format, and it's available on Ozmusicweed.

Wedgey.com has 7 Leagues Of Nations tracks.

All 11 titles from Orange's debut LP album can be found at DownloadWEED.com.

No less than 31 new DJ Drunken Master files can be found on the artist's website.

Koan's latest single release, titled "Muddy," has been added to the WeedStash.

Humanizer.com announces new music from Dunderhead and David Jensen.

Applesauce tracks recorded in 1998 and never released until now have been added to the Evil Chopper Weedbytes.

The Weed Warehouse introduces the music of Devereau J. Williams to the Weed world.

TTE Weed Media offers 8 Biaxial Creep songs and 12 Waldog songs.

Here's a summary of the recent Weed-related developments.

New sites

The weed sharing webring welcomes Luppen.com and BuyIndieMusic.com into the circle of Weed download sites.

All fans of Weed can now post the files that they like and buy to their blog on ShareNewYork.com.

What do you love about music? A passionate performance? Strong original songs? A sense of the unexpected? Arresting melodies and harmonic phrases? You'll find all this, plus Weed files, on the revamped This is Chichi.

New music for a new millenium on the Sudden Outburst Productions freshly launched website.

New music

The Weed File Garden presents Prometheus, a collaboration between Steve Ball and Sanford Ponder also featuring Pat Mastelotto (now with King Crimson), Chris Rhyne, and Nigel Gavin. Also available are new tracks from Solikk, Falik, and David Miles Huber.

Tom Shad sings, composes, improvises, plays bass, fretless piccolo bass and guitar. Chi-chi Ekweozor fuses a classical piano background with a love for the guitar histrionics of Hendrix, the genre-defying soul of Stevie Wonder and the 4-to-the-floor rawk of the Foo Fighters. You can download files from both artists on the WeedStash.

Weedtunes.com has the music of harpist Beth Kollé, positive rap artist Dre' Money, keyboard player Andrea Priora, and composers Mark Hewer and sion.

With Her Majesty's Finest and Kaleidoscope, Australian label Fireball Records has it's 2 most popular artists on Ozmusicweed.

Hungry-Media is pleased to welcome veteran darkwave/industrial record COP International to the wonderful world of Weed. Over 50 songs from COP bands such as Battery, Will, MOEV, Birmingham 6 and many others that made the gothic / industrial landscape what it is today are available for download.

Again this week, lots of additions to DownloadWeed including new artists Martin Bisi, Maitre Ka-Fu, Steve Fisk's Cut-Out, and new files from The Abyssinians, Mikey General, Lehbanchuleh, and Admiral Tibet.

ChristianWeed.com is proud to introduce Karli Bonné and Fred Atkins to the Weed family.

And finally, the FWeedom Lodge has two new Kaion tracks.