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Squaring up in the download booths and Asda CD racks: The Ting Tings, number one in the midweeks , and Madonna, whose single The Candyman Ca...

David Coverdale is furiously denying he ever said anything about Whitesnake supporting Led Zeppelin and, you know, that the band are far to...

Hah- you think you've had it hard, what with your house being repossessed, your job vanishing and your children being handed to the Inla...

Michael Stipe has trouble shaking off the blues when he tries to listen to Nirvana records : "He had reached a point where he was about...

Mike Skinner has set himself a tricky challenge, according to NME : The Streets' Mike Skinner has announced his intention to walk from B...

Gordon gloats this morning that his good buddy Victoria Beckham out-performed Paris Hilton: AHHH diddums! Poor PARIS HILTON was baffled by ...

The RIAA won the first file-sharing case that went to court - but now the judge involved is suggesting it might need to fight the case all o...

We do like the XFM Scotland video for 'what happens when a song is played on XFM', but to be honest, it's because of the soundtr...

If Sue - who called up Five Live and asked that the media leave Amy Winehouse alone - claims to be a family member, then we should take her...

It stretched credibility when Gordon Brown claimed he woke up to the Arctic Monkeys. But not so much as the claim that Gordon Brown listens ...

US pancakes and burger chain Dennys are throwing their slightly-over-normal weight behind small bands, with an initiative called the Dennys ...

There's an evocative end-of-an-era photo-essay on the Creative Review website . Spencer Murphy trails round Soho's independent recor...

Good lord, so much control does Johnny Borrell exert over his minions that even when one breaks out of His Magnificence's shadow to do a...

Can you still nominate people for OBEs and so on? Only, surely, Alex Turner deserves one for his brave attempts to save us all from the Koo...

Who's that on the Limewire network there, then? Could it be the RIAA? An RIAA rep who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of nasty email...

A quick mention for new-one-on-us My Chemcial Toilet , which does music news with a snarky undertone. Well worth a look. But come back after...

So this, then, is where all that feuding gets you in the end: Oasis reduced to poaching Robbie Williams' drummer to make up the numbers...

The eye-opening thing about the story which saw Conor McNicholas being made to move hotels when he found himself booked in to the same one ...

Not that she's desperately casting round in a bid to try and make something, anything, saleable or anything, but Courtney Love has scrap...

If we're to believe the Daily Star, disappointing album sales have led to Gnarls Barkley dropping their Vodaphone TBA gig in Edinburgh ...

The Mystery Jets have suspended their tour due to that old standby, "illness". The dates will be reorganised.

We're sure that - once his hands were both free - Gordon Smart punched the air as he took delivery of topless pictures of Lily Allen. H...

Even though we can be harsh in our judgements, when we heard that Everclear were going to Guantanamo Bay, we thought that was overdoing it a...

Madonna - not that anyone asked her - seems to be blaming Britney's parents for the mess she's in now : "She didn't get to ...

Let's cut Conor some slack, shall we? Okay, last week his vision of a post-boy guitar band NME would have been scuppered by the Coldplay...

The Sun-Times is watching the R Kelly child porn trial with more attention to detail than, frankly, many of us could stomach, but it's ...

There is to be no further action taken against Amy Winehouse over the video of her apparently smoking crack. Not entirely surprising as the ...

Nate Dogg has had to issue a statement to make it clear that he's not actually dead . Apparently people had confused "Nate" ...

With the wafer-thin excuse that 'you can play music on phones nowadays, you know...', HMV decides that it's actually a telephone...

Because, it seems, it's been decided to let local radio go to hell in a handbasket Ofcom has set a dangerous precedent by telling the Lo...