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How exciting for all the people setting out on their X Factor "journey" tonight. Because it changes your life, doesn't it? Fam...

The death has been announced of Johnny Carter , soul singer. Originally a member of The Flamingos, Carter left the band twice. First for a s...

I first came across this track a couple of decades back on the NME's Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die compilation, which gathered Vie...

Obviously, there is no real dignity to be lost in the affair of Peter Andre and Jordan, but dignity-like substance that Andre has been clin...

Gordon stretches his mind this morning to try and bring us a think-piece in response to the news that Radio One haven't playlisted Mado...

Americans and Canadians keen to stand within showering distance of Tim Burgess' gorgeous spittle are going to be disappointed, I'm a...

Sure, this is a week old, but it looks likely that Patrick Wolf won't have calmed down yet. He was onstage, doing his high-end Mika thin...

Radio Active used to show its contempt for angry listener's letters by passing them to their Head Of Carpets to deal with. But surely on...

I guess the idea of getting Alice Cooper to front a TV commercial encouraging people to trade-in their TVs rather than throwing them out of...

Could there be any way to make a pointless Disney 3D remake of Yellow Submarine even more annoying? Disney intends to release the film to c...

Gordon Smart's continuing, bemusing role as patsy for the JLS PR department continues this morning as he dutifully types up an event fea...

Peta are known for doing some dumb stunts, but now it's starting to look like they've just decided to take on everyone who isn't...

Bono and The Edge has been talking about the Spiderman musical like it isn't a financial nightmare . Sorry, did I say musical? Oh, hush ...

Good luck with that, then, Equity: The actors union is trying to get ITV to pay the X Factor contestants : The union is to table a motion at...

You know that golf tournament that Gordon was telling us all about yesterday? All a little embarrassing and self-indulgent, wasn't it? S...

The desperate attempt by the Daily Mirror to spin the 3AM column into Britain's answer to TMZ has had its on switch flicked. Understanda...

While MySpace has been drumming up the cash to buy iLike, how are things going at the last brilliant idea to put MySpace at the heart of soc...

Sometime while Location Location Location was on, it was confirmed that MySpace had struck a deal to buy iLike . Now, ultimately this makes ...

I Taught Myself How To Grow Old explores the genius of Kiss And Make Up - including talking to the man who wrote the song, Bob from the Fie...

The National Geographic Intelligent Travel's Brad Scriber shares his recipe for making place-themed mixtapes : Take the selections from ...

Ah, Simon Heffer, that you should be alive at this hour, to see the Daily Telegraph running a piece lifted from the NME cover story . Actual...

Benrard Sumner's new outfit Bad Lieutenant are offering a sample of their wares over on the MySpace right now. Recalibrate your expecta...

What's happening here? Yes, what this is the reaction of Katy Perry's manager to his charge being asked a difficult question in an i...

Exciting - or, possibly, depressing, myth-killing news - from the NME this morning : Pete Doherty has confirmed his plan to reform The Liber...

Time to check in with Zoe Griffin, "the UK’s coolest party girl." This morning she's thinking about, erm, tappas : When you or...

It's hard to know exactly what the most soul-crushing part of this tweet from @zanelowe is, but I think it might just be "all of i...

Yes, since you ask, that would be Gordon Smart, stood clutching a golf club, stood alongside Vernon Kaye (TV's Les Dennis), Harry Judd (...

Sometime in the past, Bosnia gave Bono a passport. Now, though, Bosnia wants it back : Civil Affairs Minister Sredoje Novic tells CMU Music,...

Given that whole being-implicated-in-the-death-of-his-most-famous-client business, Doctor Conrad Murray is having trouble keeping in touch w...

Ted Weber, amp and loudspeaker king, has died . Weber trained as an electrician and shaped his skills while in the US Army. On his return to...