No Rock And Roll Fun

THE EMI MELTDOWN: nme.com are reporting that as the axe man runs through the hallways of EMI, all that's saved McCartney and Jagger fr...

SEARCH ENGINE QUERIES: Okay, I can understand how "pictures of Gareth Gates from OK magazine" might lead to XRRF, but... "IT...

NOW WE ARE SIX: now s-club 7 become s club. as one of them pisses off to join a schoolmate's nu-metal band (okay, because *that* is a s...

WHAT THE POP PAPERS SAY 27/03/02: so The Face is currently running an exclusive on Kurt's diaries, which, as you'd imagine, has a C...

ANOTHER PUNK ANNIVERSARY: God, ten years on, fifteen years on, twenty years on, twenty one years on... now we're up to the silver jubil...

SHIRLEY ON THE TELLY: So, still uber-queen despite the hair (what is that, Greg Proops goes to Gwen's?) Shirley Manson was on the BBC...

ROCK SCRAPBOOK: Ryan Adams dances like a Spanish monkey on Elton's shoulders; Sting, Macca, Dylan applaud. "We like your little m...

PRE-ORDAINED... NB: Less surprising than Will being gay. From Media Monkey Marked from the start Still wondering why Will Young hasn...

CASH COW: A piece in Friday's FT provides some further business-related background to EMI's problems, along with a similar piece i...

SIX. AGAIN: Just when you're raving about six to your friends, and they're enjoying a live Manics performance, the network sticks on...

STOP YOUR GOBBING: Someone from the Mean Fiddler uberorganisation keeps popping up on six, bemoaning that the So Solids have been dropped f...

TIED TO THE 80s: As news reaches us that Adam Ant has "pulled out" of the 80s revival tour planned for later this year, it remind...

NOT QUITE AS CHARMING: The London Evening Standard is reporting that Isaac "son of Bryan" Ferry has been suspended from Eton: ...

NO, REALLY, THIS WEEK IS THE LAST TIME...: Cross-posted, cross-dressed, and cross, cross, cross. It's what the pop papers say: This we...

AND IN TRAD BLOGGER REVERSE ORDER: Becky at ATP, part 2: so sunday was only one set of bands in the ballroom. no chairs. at least this ti...

AT LAST, IT'S ALL TOMORROWS PARTIES USA: I've been threatening to bring Becky Bamboo's reviews to the BSN site forever, and bee...

THIRTY MINUTE PARTY PEOPLE: Moderately amusing guardian piece today, ringing round to find out how much it would cost for various stars to ...

SO LONG, THEN...: Saturday's business pages of the Guardian were reporting that a whole slew of second-string acts on EMI labels will ...

MOVES TO OUTLAW COPY PROTECTION: You do wonder if sometimes record industry execs, washing the spunk dribble from their thighs as the too-y...

QUESTION FOUND IN REFERRING SEARCH TERMS: Why did rock and roll ended?

THE WEAKEST LINK: How come Craig Charles show is being trailed with snippets of a programme that hasn't been broadcast yet? Which impli...

RE-ARMED: Good to see that Mudhoney are back in action again - I'd assumed they'd been lost in the wave that Nirvana threw up behin...

...OR ARE YOU JUST PLEASED TO SEE ME?: Possibly the genuinely most erotic or something band on the planet, erstwhile bsn-person Carmen and ...

THE MOST EROTIC BAND IN THE WORLD: That's what Akash claims to be, anyway. So we went to their website and MP3.com files to check. The...

OKAY. FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. AGAIN. WHAT THE POP PAPERS SAY: Because it'll save me having to repeat myself here, lots. sometimes, choices ...

BRIT STRIPPED: Possibly the best thing you'll read about Ms Spears' virginity has turned up in the ever-reliable Nerve magazine, pic...

RAPE ME: If you've been as confused as I have by all the various to-ing and fro-ing in the Nirvana court battles, there's a pretty ...

SIX UPDATE: We've also learned today that Marilyn Manson played his first gig in an English theme pub in Florida. One of the nice touc...

SIX STARTS: Anyone else listening to six music? I dunno if it's perhaps a sad reflection on the state of radio in the UK that a breakfa...

ANOTHER CLOSURE: Shame to hear that Liverpool's second-greatest clubnight, Voodoo (and I mean second to Liquidation, not The Big Superm...