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A mild joke - tasteless, tactless, but mild - about having sex with a woman in her 80s has been enough for the Mail On Sunday to roll out t...

The ten most-read individual stories in January have been: 1. R Kelly's sex video: jurors will watch him naked 2. This 'Lily Allen n...

Jonathan Ross has apologised privately; he's apologised publicly. Twice. He's served his time on the benches. Surely, now, the Mail ...

Drowned In Sound's Insider column explores how to get your band noticed in a never-ending cycle: So, with The Brits coming in February ...

Nice piece on Hypebot pointing out that Sony BMG's Google ads campaign has been turning up on isoHunt, and thus helping underwrite the ...

Poor old David Van Day - even when people give him the adulation he yearns for, it hurts: someone jumped on him so enthusiastically , his he...

Earlier this week, Chris Elliott's excellent traveller-consumer blog featured a story about a woman who was forced to give up her iPod ...

If only I had a range of made-up prizes to share out, like Gordon's 'Shagger Of The Year' prize, I'd be reaching into my sac...

Ah, what could be better than to gather a million or so people in one place to listen to tapes? Okay, admittedly, the music at the inaugurat...

Whoever hacked into Kanye West's accounts did a nice job, planting a public seed that West was, well, willing to plant a public seed: “...

The perpetual myth that Abba - especially the women - fought like a stoats in a stovepipe hat refuses to die; Agnetha and Anni-Frid have had...

Not that it's open season on the NME right now, but our delight at hearing that the former leader of Throwing Muses is playing a gig in ...

Kudos to the NME for admitting the story it ran unquestioningly about "prominent" British Jews being on a "terrorist hit list...

A while back, Radio One took the surprising step of passing control of its Surgery 'sort your life out' show to Kelly Osbourne. She,...

Good news from Drag City (via [ You Aint No Picasso ]): Bill Callahan's I Wish I Could Soar Like An Eagle has got plans for an April rel...

Mick Harvey has finally fled the pod, as he leaves the Bad Seeds after quarter of a century : "For a variety of personal and profession...

On The Guardian's Comment Is Free , Sunny Hundal explains why some types of live music are being put under the cosh: I was, until recen...

A picture of Agyness Deyn in a denim jacket prompts the 3AM Girls to ask : Have you ever seen anything as 80s as this? Erm, yes: Police beat...

Back when Alex James was running a record label with Joe Strummer and Damien Hirst, he had a look at Coldplay, and decided not to sign them....

Yesterday I mentioned Gerd Leonhard's guesstimate that the attendance at MIDEM was down by anything up to 20%; Bruce Houghton over on H...

Perhaps the continued presence of Chris Moyles at breakfast on Radio One is as some sort of poison pill to discourage anyone from trying to ...

The Telegraph has sucked the guts out of the Lily Allen Gay Times interview from which Gordon sourced the twins story for Bizarre. As with ...

Under a grim-faced David Bailey portrait (commissioned by Q, apparently), Take That share their "guilt" over Robbie Williams as p...

Whatever happened to Ms Dynamite? With her sort-of-alright-sounding low-demand pop with some vaguely-considered anti-crime stance, did she t...

Odd goings-on in Oxford, where the only-just-expensively-refurbished Regal Venue has remained closed after its New Year holiday . (Actually,...

Having spent much of the weekend being patronised by the likes of Feargal Sharkey, it's not surprising that Gerd Leonhard spent much of ...

It's been obvious since the days of Napster, but at last a judge has said in judgement a self-evident truth - that just because someone...

Eminem's new album is just "weeks" away from completion , it seems. But the team have come up with a smart way to try and guar...

Perhaps understandably, Taylor Deupree is a bit annoyed that U2's No Line On The Horizon album sleeve looks a bit (i.e. exactly, except...

Gordon Smart is not a happy man this morning, and it's the Brit nominations which have upset him. Specifically, the "snub" han...