No Rock And Roll Fun

Nobody ever bought John Lennon's working class, man-of-the-people shtick, but when he was alive he'd never have been quite so carele...

One more dip into Music Ally's excellent coverage of Midem, and in particular a panel exploring the chances of ISPs and copyright compa...

The place is the Crocodile Cafe; it's August 2000, and Neko Case And Her Boyfriends are in a Mood To Burn Bridges: [Part of Neko Case we...

Following on from Best Buy's purchase of Napster last year, the music-sharing service has decided that it'll shovel all its subscrib...

Music Ally continue to bring the freshest coverage of MIDEMNet, covering an appearance by Courtney Holt , who has arrived to run MySpace...

Due out on the third of the third: [Part of Neko Case weekend ]

One of the problems that, it's fair to say, never hit rock in the first days of the music: Aerosmith have pulled a gig because Lee Joe ...

The pre-Midem MidemNet digital music conference is underway down in the South Of France, where somehow these companies who have to fight for...

The news that Gomez have scheduled a late March US release for their new album, A New Tide, doesn't entirely thrill me, but given that t...

Recorded live at 2007's Calgary Folk Festival, Neko Case does The Things That Scare Me, which is the opposite of The Sound Of Music...

After last weekend, when the News of the World crashed Amy Winehouse's holiday, it was probably only a matter of time before The Sun sen...

Mutya, having failed to be evicted, has walked from the Big Brother house . She says she couldn't stand being away from her child any lo...

With a new album and charity-powered free download all over the place, what better time for a quick trawl through the marvelous Neko Case...

It's been 40 years since the first stretchings and mewings of Mott The Hoople. And, to mark the passing of those forty years, Mott The H...

To be fair, I can't take much delight in the news that Circuit City is closing its remaining stores . That's despite having a really...

After the horrors Jennifer Hudson went through last year, it's unlikely that a poorly thought-out NME.com headline is going to make thin...

As someone - probably on Popbitch - observed: he's not a man without convictions any more. Boy George has been given a fifteen-month sen...

That IFPI report? The NME runs a chunk of the findings : The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Digital Music Repo...

More grim news from the cash-strapped world of music: Dublin indie store Road is closing . Dave from Road has a list of reasons: 1. Regardle...

With The Astoria now closed, and attracting the attention of the Today programme [8.24, near the bottom of the page], there's grim news...

The puzzling decision of Boy George to not offer the obviously plausible explanation for what the escort was doing chained to his wall has b...

Some good news blinking through the gloom of the economy this morning - worldwide, digital music sales rose by 25 per cent in value over th...

Bizarre this morning is leading with a piece by Sharon Hendry : He's tall with smouldering Latin looks ... and a fear of commitment. Is ...

Amongst all the news items detailing the break-up of Zavvi, this is the one that confirms the store is on its way to the knackers' yard:...

Back in August 2007, the BBC released a collection of cover versions to mark Radio 1's 40th birthday. Franz Ferdinand suggested that, ra...

Microsoft? Thinking of dropping the Zune? Why, nothing could be further from the truth, apparently : "Basically, what happened last we...

Is American Idol entering its decline phase? Although the return was the most-watched programme so far this year on US TV, it hasn't had...

Take That's Gary Barlow a dad to baby Daisy after wife goes into labour as he's on a video shoot Someone should be fired - surely th...

Although it's easy to forget, Sharon Osbourne is just flesh and blood and as capable of being mortified or embarrassed as the rest of us...

James P emails to alert me to the forthcoming New Kids On The Block cruise liner gig : The band seem quite defensive, saying "this is n...