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New York City is getting its own music festival - for the start of October in a couple of locations and with a glittery line-up (and Oasis)...

If the Foo Fighters are coming to Britain to do a bunch of gigs, we're not sure who's going to be ensuring that Frances Bean's ...

There's probably a small, glass-fronted office block somewhere in LA which houses a staff who do nothing but work with P Diddy on his le...

While it's sad but not entirely surprising that Madonna has apparently got David Beckham and Victoria Usedtobeaspicegirl to at least lo...

There would be something slightly dignified if the Kaiser Chiefs really did do as Ricky Wilson suggests, and quit after two albums , but the...

That's the explanation for what you find if you Google on rapper Nick Cannon's name, apparently (he's dating Christina Milian, s...

We had hoped it was all some sort of glorious spoof, but, no, the struggle against filesharers is really going to be underwritten in part by...

Last week, Damon Albarn made some half-funny remarks about making Pete Doherty history - apparently cribbed from Private Eye front pages , a...

In what has probably been one of the most disrupted series of gigs ever, what with bands cancelling and bombs going off, The Tears have canc...

Now that she's chosen a name for him - Johnny Natchez Jones Riddle - Cerys Matthews has been talking a little more about her new son...

Thank god for people like Senator Barbara Boxer - taking a brave stand against peer-to-peer file sharing. Thank god someone is thinking of t...

Back before we had the internets, when I was young and striping between being carefree and fretworn, new music and friendship used to rely a...

No, we're sure that David Gray has only the best motives for attacking the Live 8 bands: Gray believes most artists taking part didn...

Not, of course, the first Kirsty MacColl best-of (and someone should pull together a collection of her backing work sometime) Wondered...

The death has been announced of Ibrahim Ferrer , one of the voclaists with the Buena Vista Social Club. Ferrer - known for his cap and greyi...

We're not sure if he was hoping to have a Lamacqian Richey Manic moment or not, but there does just seem to be something a little calcul...

We're not sure quite why the Staffordshire Police are planning to take their facial recognition software to this year's V Festival: ...

If we were Ashlee Simpson, we'd be keen to try and forget the whole Saturday Night Live farrago, and concentrate on her career as, um, w...

We've had a note to ourselves to bring you a link to this - frankly, astonishing - pair of screen grabs for a while, but have never quit...

In order to do something or other - god alone knows what - Robbie Williams hopes to find twenty-five lookalikes . Although, presumably, if y...

Following on from the Uncut 'mostest influential' poll, BBC News Online have been inviting their readers to share the music that ch...

If there's one bunch of joyless uptights more dour than the RIAA, it's the various Olympic bodies around the globe who employ squads...

The Annual Billboard-Arun R&B and hip hop awards have had a glittery prize giving (they're like the Source awards, only without the...

We don't know if this says more about the armed forces than it does about Ozzy Osbourne in 2005, but amongst the booths at Ozzfest dates...

Two depressing little facts, which make us despair more than they should: Coldplay's X&Y reaches double platinum in the US (that...

One of those stories which seems to be all over the place at the moment: Brandon Flowers has quietly got married to his truelove Tana Munblo...

There's been a great deal of excitement over the possibilty that Prada - who make more expensive versions of the clothes you can buy in ...

When I was a lot younger, we used to view the kid from up the road with a bit of pity, as his sole ambition was to reach the age of 14 so he...

Vodaphone-pushing artrock ahoy, as the Dandy Warhols come for mini-prance around the more-densely populated areas of the UK: Glasgow Aca...

Liam Gallagher has laid down the law - clearly he's enjoying there being someone more unreliable and out of control than he is - insisti...