No Rock And Roll Fun

Can we please do whatever it is that David Gest wants us to do to make him go away now, please? Watching Michael Grade launch ITV's broa...

There's just so much that's disturbing about Meg Matthew's account of the birth of her and Noel Gallagher's kid that we don...

Character comedian Marilyn Manson is hooking up with parody band Slayer in the hope a joint tour of the US might attract enough attention t...

George Michael has changed his mind and pleaded guilty to driuving while unfit , although he maintains he was merely tired and whacked out o...

At long last, someone prepared to up the stakes and make the Wedding Present's single-a-month campaign from a few years back (gathered a...

One of interest to you only if you're (a) in New York and (b) fond of the Bravery: they're following yesterday's Apple Store gig...

Presumably the reasons will trickle out through a mixture of gossip and idle speculation, but for now all anyone seems to know about the New...

We're not entirely sure how you could tell a bad Kelly Clarkson record from a good one, which, presumably, is why Sony-BMG haven't b...

As you head back to your desks and swivel chairs at the end of a too-short bank holiday weekend, spare a thought for poor Girls Aloud, trapp...

It's being pitched as being part of the festival's commitment to all things ecological, but we can't help feeling that the deal ...

The line-up for the Australian leg of Live Earth has been formally announced - no Midnight Oil, which may be a surprise: CROWDED HOUSE JACK ...

We're slightly dubious about the claims that Currys decision to stop stocking cassettes is the official end of the road for the tape , b...

Paris Hilton has attempted to cast herself as the Helen of Troy of our age - if only her nose was a slightly different shape, and her trials...

You would have thought by now Chad Kroeger must have come up with a standard response to being told that "Nickelback sucks" - obvi...

We don't know what Usher is planning to get his mum for the American Mother's Day this coming Sunday, but he's probably going to...

We're not sure it's something the world has been waiting for, but it's an interesting idea: Lawrence Latham has been modifying A...

Adjusting too late to the new music business, Warners is expected to announce 400 sackings and investment in its digital activities as part...

Indie labels - many of them, anyway - are just like big labels, run to the same demands of vanity, short-sightedness and greed that have mad...

Modest Mouse's Eric Judy has, apparently, been taking some unaccounted time out, with Pitchfork suggesting he might not have been sight...

Of course, Madonna will have precious little to do with the day-to-day running of Big Shot, some ill-conceived attempt at a cross between Am...

Interesting moment on Marc Riley's Brain Surgery last week, when he asked session guests Camera Obscura if they'd appeared to have s...

Jessica Simpson has changed the hue of her hair. This might be the sort of thing most people do with barely a murmur, but for Jessica, it...

We really hope that there's some plausible explanation that doesn't involve American policemen overstepping the mark, and then carry...

Last week, we explored how SoundExchange, the body which has taken on for itself the task of collecting and distributing royalties from onli...

Although it's from the other night, and it's not actually a bank holiday in America, but even so: NPR are streaming Bjork's New ...

A depressing, jaw-dropping moment of idiocy at the Clash Culture event , called, ironically, to mark the 30th anniversary of White Riot bei...

You'd hope that Christina Aguilera's response to turning up and discovering the venue had got her name wrong would have been as ins...

The Daily Mirror, inexplicably, has failed to hold the front page for Kate Jackson's breathless discovery that Girls Aloud are flesh an...

There was some backstage unpleasantness at the Brits, it seems, when Lily Allen has a pop at The Fratellis for taking "their" awar...

It had all been set up - the sketches drawn, the script prepared, the publicity machine ready to roll. The Prince turned up to record his ca...