No Rock And Roll Fun

Isn't a lavish celebration of the anniversary of a compilation album pushing the idea of 'a very special birthday' a little far,...

Shrewdly, Idlewild are inviting fans to buy the summer 2009 album now, by offering a bunch of extras for paying upfront: By pre-ordering no...

Gordon Smart is studiously attempting to give relevancy to Oasis, by helping orchestrate a feud between Noel Gallagher and Mick Hucknall. No...

This would kind-of assume that anyone is interested in a new Killers album in the first place - and launching at this gifting time of year p...

There were quite a few complaints about the grotty sound quality of the latest batch of New Order reissues came out in the UK last month. Th...

The latest update to iTunes - which seems to be mainly designed to spend about three bloody hours sending Genius playlist data to Apple and ...

Rapper Rico Todriquez Wright is settling into prison right now for shooting Chad Blue. Wright didn't exactly help himself evade justice ...

I'm not sure that Courtney Love's MySpace blog constitutes a reliable news source, but for what it's worth, she's reporting...

Gary McKinnon - the poor sod who's currently looking at being heavily-handed over to the US so that he might have his life ruined as a r...

Barack Obama's transitional team are currently shaping proposals to encourage bands to split up in the next two years, as experts predic...

I like to think that the decision to bring back Paul Coia and give him the drivetime slot on Smooth Radio can be directly and unquestionabl...

A headline in NME.com with which it is hard to take issue : Fratellis to release 'depressing' Christmas single The only quibble, of ...

In order to better concentrate on the putting together of an album : "We have been unable to write the second record and we are increas...

Normally, when a big-name brand leaves a major label, it's the label who comes off worse, but with Velvet Revolver quitting RCA , you su...

The decision to use Kerrang as a radio station brand for music that overlapped but went further with the sort of music the magazine writes a...

Kiss want to know where the respect for them is. Respect? Love, perhaps. They feel unloved by their exclusion from the Rock & Roll Hall ...

Regular readers of Gordon's column will have been investing in pith helmets and fall-out shelters, as the Bizarre team have been predict...

Presumably in order to head off being told to do so by a double-headed BBC Trust and Daily Mail beast, what remains of BBC management has re...

Prince is worried that America is going to hell in something of a handbasket, and blames politicians and - oh, yes - gay marriage : "I...

Rod Lucas - the occasional TalkSport presenter whose name turned up on the BNP membership list has issued an explanation : he was being inve...

The price cut might have looked kind of desperate, but the attempt to raise interest in the Zune subscription by allowing some songs to be k...

Hold the front page - or, rather, replace the blocky top bit at the top of Bizarre with a single story: Gordon Smart has a world exclusive :...

With still no sign of a Zune launch being rolled out in the wider world, Microsoft has announced price cuts across the range of players for...

In not very long at all, The Levellers will be webcasting their Amsterdam Paradiso gig live. Like more or less now.

More free music from RCRDLBL: Trail Of Dead's Bells of Creations , yours for the download.

Jackson Browne's complaints against John McCain using his music during the McCain-Whatwashernamegain campaign have finally drawn a forma...

Yesterday, TalkSport fired John Gaunt because he called a man a Nazi. Today, TalkSport have announced they will no longer give slots to Rod...

Hot Chip's Al Doyle seems to have started his own corrections and clarifications column : "A news article has appeared, quoting me ...

Bob Geldof found some time in his busy schedule to fly to Asutralia and deliver a speech about world poverty at the eighth annual Diversity@...

Michael Jackson does seem to be unlucky with his health, doesn't he? Every time he's due in court he seems to develop some sort of a...