No Rock And Roll Fun

A spot of Abba covering now, from Plug in Sheffield last October: [Part of the Charlotte Hatherley weekend ]

The Music have canceled tonight's gig in Holmfirth - home of Last Of The Summer Wine, reports NME.com : because of problems with frontma...

The deal between U2 and LiveNation which sees U2 leave Island for the company included U2 receiving about $19million worth of stock in the ...

As if the family name hadn't been sullied enough, Hank Williams Junior is trading in what's left of his goodwill in the interests o...

Summer, recorded live in Birmingham on March 3rd, 2007: [Part of The Charlotte Hatherley weekend ]

One cheer, if that, for the news that the UK is revamping its approach to Eurovision for 2009. It's much needed, but the solution is to ...

The story of Nokia's Comes With Music deal gets even more tortuous: The Times Mousestrap blog asked Nokia if it was true there was a c...

It's been quite a while since Liverpool's Grafton club was on the circuit - the Beatles played there in the past, but it's glory...

Here's something extra: Charlotte playing bass with Client on Sweden's TV4 for It's Not Over and Drive: [Part of the Charlotte H...

Nelly Furtado did that strange thing for a famous person: she got married without inviting a magazine to give her large piles of cash . Furt...

Back in September, the world learned that the RIAA was trying to have a lawyer branded as vexatious because, erm, he disagreed with their b...

Gordon's back on the Madonna divorce this morning, with Emma Cox helping out, as Smart details what Ritchie might expect : GUY RITCHIE w...

She was excellent in Night Nurse. She brought something to Ash that unquestionably reinvigorated a band that could have slipped into being a...

After a long period of ill-health, Levi Stubbs passed on Friday at his home in Detroit. The son a foundary worker, Stubbs was born in June ...

We took our kitten for his orchidectomy today. It looks like Sumesh wasn't the only one to have his manhood permanently rmeoved, as Guy ...

One good thing about the Oasismandias tour this summer - it might shut them up about those Knebworth gigs from years and years ago. Do you r...

Apparently unaware that he's flogging a one-note night rather than a four-day event, Noel Gallagher has launched into a Del Boy sales pi...

There are lots of this sort of video on the internet; normally, though, they've been filmed in order to persuade governments to cut a de...

If someone took an already damaged person, and dragged them into a city centre and humiliated them, you'd expect police to get involved....

Cassettes Won't Listen had recently been pitching for free the album Ludacrisdemocracy, a mashy-bashy delight that took the Chinese Demo...

Mike Baldwin traveled from London to Greater Manchester, bringing with him cunning London know-how about how to make cheap clothes and keep ...

Katy Perry - who, for some reason, turned up at the MTV Latin American awards - indulged in those sorts of fun and games which seem like la...

With Ringo's deadline for signing stuff looming, thank god Dodgy have arranged a bail-out. Two-time Ringo in a Beatles tribute band, Mat...

Just one person filing for the Madonna divorce story today - Virginia Wheeler is charged with going through the whole thing again. Readers o...

There's a new album due on December 1st from Extreme Noise Terror; meanwhile, they've cancelled their tour of Mexico which had been ...

So, then, that "you'll never guess in a million, billion years" venue that Noel Gallagher was talking about? It turns out to b...

Kev Seed, who has been with Radio City for over a decade, has been axed after pleading guilty to driving on the M6 while over the limit. Se...

My Morning Jacket have just pulled their European tour through online statementing: It is with great regret that we have to announce the ca...

In what we take to be an email from a Republican, the Answer Bitch is challenged about anti-McCain bands: If I hear one more band complain ...

It's pre-pre-order status, but BestBuy is showing Chinese Democracy in its catalogue.