No Rock And Roll Fun

The only appearance of this track on YouTube is marked with a fan video which only slightly looks like a screensaver. Soothing, though. Soo...

It's something of a classic day for watching people struggling to cross the massive river flowing between things they understand and thi...

This was one of the album's singles - it came in a somewhat pointless double CD set, with one of them coming with an outside, swing-fron...

You would have thought that, by now, Chris DeBurgh would have realised he was an acquired taste, and accepted that he's one of those peo...

Kelly Osbourne didn't get where she is today relying on other people , and wants the rest of us to pull our bloody socks up: "I fin...

Not the most-obvious choice for a second track on an album, a song called Ignition. This is the 2008 version of the band playing the track i...

You'll recall Pete Wishart, the SNP MP who once was a member of Runrig. He's written an opinion piece for the Scotsman about filesha...

So, then, onto the album proper - and one of the band's great lost classics: Another happy lad with dirty pictures plastered on the wall...

Some sublime news from the Saint Etienne camp: Rumours have been flying left right and centre, but we can finally confirm that disco dynamo ...

If this story featured a woman - any woman - wearing a bikini top, Gordon Smart would have exploded : GUY RITCHIE has set his sights on rock...

Don't worry if you're not a big Charlatans fan - or, indeed, can't stand the lips-and-fringe-and-organ combination at all; I...

More free early-morning goodness, in the shape of Compass from Venice Is Sinking. This act of generosity - coming fresh from Athens (the RE...

Go on, start the day with a free download from Dragonette: Boys & Girls (Les Petits Pilous remix) . It's all legal and above-board, ...

Last night, we saw how Courtney Love insisted she couldn't have burned through all the money that Kurt earns ("all the money that s...

As Michael M points out, the massively over-promised and then rapidly junked Michael Jackson tribute gig echoes the massively over-promised...

Starfucker are no longer going to call themselves Starfucker. It turns out the 'fuck' bit was a bit of a stumbling block when it ca...

What was it again, Gennaro? The Beatles were going to dominate this year ? HMV’s Gennaro Castaldo said: “This is likely to prove one of the ...

It's wrong, it's very wrong. But it's so very, very good. Taco Bell are offering bands free taco bell foods as part of their re...

For a short period earlier this week, Sky News was apparently reporting an announcement by Yoko Ono of The Beatles coming to iTunes: The s...

With apologies to Private Eye. Sales of Abbey Road, best-performing of The Beatles albums on re-release day following a month of press cover...

Meanwhile, Gordon is all excited about the Beatles reissues : BEATLEMANIA is back - blasting the Fab Four back into the Top Ten with a whopp...

The news that Phil Collins can no longer drum might be the sort of news that would have led to street parties in the 1980s, but now is actu...

The ill-judged resurrection of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero has sparked a slew of messages from Courtney Love via Twitter , in which she clai...

Musicians who have, perhaps, made a decent record more recently than Feargal Sharkey have been suggesting that UK Music's delighted gurg...

The front of the BBC News website reports that James Allan's whereabouts are still a mystery: Allan went Awol four days ago and missed ...

Something must be terribly wrong in Wapping - there's no lightweight half-story on the Bizarre pages this morning about either Robbie Wi...

It's still a bit of a mystery why Wayne Coyne decided to have a go at The Arcade fire earlier in the year. And then why he offered a hal...

Jermaine Jackson has been in London today, pushing a wonderful live music event. Oh, yeah, in memory of thingumabob. But mostly the event . ...

Congratulations to Girls Aloud for picking up the Popjustice £20 Music Prize for The Promise, and a round of applause to Nicola Roberts for...

A handy chunk of data has been made available by the Guardian , in spreadsheet take-it-and-mash format, detailing not just the winners of th...