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Bloc Party have pulled out of the Ultra Music festival in Florida ; Kele's unwell. Viral pharyngitis, if you want to spend some time wit...

The Daily Telegraph suggests there are compelling reasons for Take That to make themselves rubbish by bringing Robbie Williams back on board...

This morning, Gordon is worried about a mate. Or, rather, someone who he has had his photo taken with, but that's kind of a mate, isn...

Hold the, erm, waffle iron: Westwood's had second thoughts: Shit - recipe's to complicated - I'm gonna get Aunt Jamima waffle mi...

You know, there are those people who say that Twitter is little more than a gathering of the barely literate. Others say its a service for t...

Here's one fresh from the flipchart at a company brainstorm: Universal Records have decided that what the UK needs is a British Miley Cy...

Before heading out for a spot of tea, I made a joke about how Courtney Love's blogging was probably a good argument for musicians to hav...

For the last couple of weeks, I've been pointing out that comparing radio royalty rates with online video rates - as the PRS tries to do...

There is, of course, a distinction between having Twitter ghostwriters and paying someone to update your social networking profiles. The for...

More aural bounty, as everyone's other favourite Hannigan visits Daytrotter to deliver one of their sumptuous sessions. Five Lisa Hannig...

It's been the day of the Radio Academy radio and music forum, and somewhat impolitely Andy Parfitt turned up and talked about television...

What are bands doing with all the emails they harvest in return for free music? Are they simply building up a marketing database, or do they...

More trouble at the interface of rights holders and online services: Imeem is struggling to cope with paying royalties at the prices demande...

Do you suppose the RIAA really ever expect their get-tough-stunts to have the desired effect? Or are they like alcoholics opening another ca...

Because I'm nothing if not sensitive to the demands of the crowd, here is Whipping Boy's When We Were Young:

A gift for you from the Noisettes' people: yesterday's cover of The Killers' When We Were Young off the Live Lounge. If only it...

Sadly, Duffy decided to wait until everyone had seen the eye-poking terror of her 'bicycling off to get some Diet Coke with a look of te...

If you wanted to give away a free Nickelback video, you'd probably be hard put to find anyone who'd want it. You'd need to find ...

Two roadies who had been working on the Circus Circus Circus tour with Britney Spears have been axed after getting into a lot of silly bothe...

Soundgarden? Back together, you say? Only without Chris Cornell, obviously, you say? Come away, children, there's nothing to see here......

Unusually for a 'pop star signs up to write autobiography' story, the person signing on this time has actually lived enough of a lif...

Pete Doherty has, Gordon discovers, been invited to write a BBC drama pilot . This doesn't please Gordon: WHEN I give my cash to the BBC...

Yesterday, what with the return of The Apprentice and photos of Girls Aloud in Mark One versions of fetish wear, you might have missed that ...

As their response to the government's Digital Britain report, Orange have offered to build a lovely broadband network and, more interes...

Showbiz Zoe, who is now merely Pursuing Other Exciting Opportunities Zoe, has had her vacant former position filled. Stepping in, it seems, ...

Steve Van Zandt, off the Sopranos and out the E Street Band, is not a big fan of Bobby Gillespie. He loves Primal Scream, but Bobby Gillesp...

April brings not just the joy of bunnies shaped like chocolate and eggs wrapped in foil that represent Jesus in some way, but also a tour fr...

Elton John has finally given up his legal actions against The Guardian over a joke about him that he believed did him down: John had accuse...

Taking a break from throwing people off stages, dry-humping children and giving kids vouchers for sex toys, Akon has decided to exercise his...

Maxim US spin-off Blender, which monthly combined Q style music articles with a cover of a female singer in a push-up bra, has closed , afte...