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Scott Weiland managed to take his flight out the air last night: He suffered a seizure en-route from LAX to MIA , forcing the scheduled Amer...

Recorded live at The Secret Garden, by the lovely people from Hooves On The Turf , here's Tune-Yards doing Hatari: [Part of Tune-Yards w...

Wobbly moment last night when Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage mid-Bird On A Wire. He was taken to hospital in Valencia, where he was given...

I suspect that even at twenty quid, the 150 tickets may already have long gone, but just in case: The Raincoats are playing the National Por...

One of the most familiar unknown names of the 1960s pop world, Bobby Graham , has died. By his own reckoning, Graham played on a total of 40...

Over to a backyard shortly before Merrill Grabus launched the album. As a warm up, she worked through Top Chef: [Part of the Tune-Yards week...

Muse aren't just there for filling the "best live band" slot at the NME Awards, you know. Oh, no: they want to lead us onto th...

This Bizarre story is very wrong indeed : The Killers were playing a gig at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday night when a crew member interru...

Or, to be precise, tUnE-YaRdS. They - or, rather, she, Merrill Garbus - turned up earlier this week on Marc Riley's 6Music programme to ...

With a sixth solo album about to emerge from his mindhole, Ian Brown is doing a "most intimate gig of his life" type thing at the ...

The lovely people at Saint Etienne have pulled together a three-track live ep, Trumpton Comes Alive , which you can download and play on you...

MTV and Jay-Z are still hoping that people treat Kanye West's "incident" like it was something that happened, rather than some...

Although Lily Allen is mostly wrong on copyright, it's with a degree of respect that I wave my hands at her latest blog yelling "n...

The position of third Sugababe is, like the American Presidency or chairmanship of the Wheeltapper And Shunter's Club, a limited appoint...

Polka bands aren't just having to cope with the cruel indifference of the Grammy committee, but there just aren't going to be as man...

If only music publishers ran supermarkets, how sweet it would be. They'd have the little pieces of cheese on sticks as samples, and afte...

Although Courtney Love's predicted climbdown by Activision has yet to appear, more grumbling about the clumsy use of Kurt Cobain turns u...

I don't think Gordon is even bothering to phone it in these days. Bizarre looks like it's been compiled by a semi-intelligent algori...

An astonishing claim at the top of a Guardian story : The music industry claims to have reached a unified position on illegal filesharing bu...

Guy Hands has more or less admitted that buying EMI was a rotten plan : Guy Hands, founder of private equity firm Terra Firma, on Thursday a...

So, amongst the stories that popped up in the last day and a half or so was the admission by The Sun that the big front-page splash which ...

Mary Travers, the Mary in Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. A fuller obituary when I'm back online, but for now:

Lord, it must be days since Gordon filed a story - or something a bit like a story - to remind us that Robbie Williams is about to release a...

Last FM radio and user profiles are going to be offline for a few hours this coming weekend. It's back-end maintenance stuff, and stren...

The lawsuit which saw Joe Satriani claim to have written one of Coldplay's songs has ended . It looks like a deal has been done which le...

The death has been announced of Jim Carroll . Although best known as the author of hip-book turned DiCaprio vehicle The Basketball Diaries, ...

Lily Allen doesn't have any time for filesharers: Referring to FAC and its comments, Allen said: "These guys from huge bands said ...

Look out, people. Take to the hills. David Gray is back, and he's angry : There was this waning of whatever vital energy had inspired me...

Pete Samson has been busy getting a scoop by watching Whitney Houston on Oprah Winfrey : DIVA WHITNEY HOUSTON "totally forgot" she...

Some bad news for Clinic fans: Due to continuing illness the Clinic gig at The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen has been cancelled and is due to be re...