No Rock And Roll Fun

WE NAME THE SPAM BANDS AGAIN: PolePosition spamming again, this time offering a link to Fischerspooner (or the New Sputniks) as well. Stree...

CREAMED OFF: As Ministry of Sound tries desperately to avoid become the Department for Pensions - its label is trying to simultaneously spr...

WE NAME THE SPAM BANDS: Akash. They claim to be the most erotic band in the world. They are, rather, simply one of the most annoying...

CHART BEAT: It's been coming for quite a while, but the BPI's attempts to stop people getting hold of the midweek charts seem to fi...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NME: WHAT THE POP PAPERS ARE SAYING 17.04.02 a new age, a new dawn, a new nme. or something... but first: The Stereopho...

XRRF IS SAYING YES TO: The New Pornographers. And Yeah Yeah Yeahs, of course. XRRF IS SAYING NO TO: The next series of Popstars, which is...

INVESTIGATION CORNER: Never mind how Heathen Poetry came to be circulating on the web, let's investigate: Why? . Surely this has to be ...

ALSO IN THE LOGS: "Drawn pictures of Fred Durst killing people"

WE NAME THE SPAMBANDS: Of course, nobody minds over-enthusiastic bands getting a bit carried away and wedging internet communities with mat...

ACTUALLY, HE LOOKS RATHER SWIFT IN IT: Found in the referring URLs segment of the No Rock & Roll Fun stats: "R Kelly Pedestrian se...

BANGS AND CRASHES: The Guardian Review chose this weekend to get Nick Kent to run a piece in praise of Lester Bangs, which, of course, foun...

A FIVE PER CENT FALL IN THE MIDST OF ALL THIS: So, world music sales fell by five per cent last year - the first time since the CD was fois...

WE'RE SO PRETTY: The Charlatans have started to fulfill their promise to get the now-dropped single We're So Pretty out as a web-on...

THINGS WE HATE IN MUSIC: "Bling Bling." It's all very well snorting at out of date slang and phrases - of course people sayin...

PUT 'EM ON: I never thought I'd have a good word for Guy Ritchie, but if he's encouraging his wife from waving her breasts arou...

CLEAR MURKY: This is a story that's been bubbling away in the States for a while, and is potentially more serious for the state of musi...

PAINT IT BLACK: We have no idea what it's all about, but there's an event slated for the L2 in Liverpool on May 24th called Remix. ...

THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME - SORT OF: What the pop papers say, 10/4/2002: yes, in a moment, live, here, we'll be opening our bag that ...

BITCHBITCH: Another popbitch moan: the front page is currently sneering at Liz Kershaw because she danced - BY HERSELF - at a wedding. Now...

AVOID AT ALL COSTS: BBC2, 8 pm tonight: The Naked Chef. Jamie Oliver AND Jamiroquai.

NO SURPRISES. AGAIN: The worst kept secret in music, that the NME is going to be relauched as a smaller format magazine, has been confirmed...

LUXURIOGLASTO: Missing the point entirely, some bloke has bought a field next to the Glasto site where he will offer - for £650 a day - a n...

R KELLY UPDATE: "Another sexual harrasment case wrapped up nicely" smiles R, snapping shut his chequebook. NME reports - and en...

STEADY ON ROBBIE, HELP IS ON ITS WAY: Obviosuly having decided that running up expenses at SXSW and the New Music schmooze wagons is the wa...

HE DOES HAVE A POINT: This, from Marc "thirty six different sorts, apparently" Almond's mouth by way of Ananova: Marc Almond...

GETS ALL HER FACTS FROM THE LATEST SMASH HITS: Following Emma Jones' decision to take a job more in keeping with her talent (and that s...

AND THE OTHER ONE... This mildly amused me, and probably only me, but turning over a large pile of papers yesterday I found a page torn fro...

QUIET CONTEMPT: More on that B&S backwash, then. As if to demonstrate how out of favour the band are now, there's a review of them ...

IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER: or maybe just artistic, you can design a new Belle & Sebastian album sleeve and win, well, enormous pri...

OH, BUCKS OFF: Michael Stipe "removed his glasses and cried" as the jury acquitted Peter Buck on the air-rage charges, says The W...