No Rock And Roll Fun

Another truncated Morrissey show tonight, in Liverpool. He got hit by a drink thrown from the crowd , marched off the stage and refused to c...

A smattering of Francophone awkward-guitar-pop for this weekend, as I dip cautiously into webpages I can only translate if they touch on Fre...

Shortly after Brad Whitford told Classic Rock magazine that, perhaps, Steve Tyler might not be the only person who can sing songs comes app...

Given the discussion in the comments yesterday , here's a GDR-era video Berlin-off. In the red corner, Eastbourne's The Mobiles doin...

Sweden's mighty Labrador records offers up a glimpse of the new Sambassadeur: Download Days now .

Normally, when Gordon tells us about all the things that he's been doing, it's accompanied by an awkward photo. Not this time : Yes,...

Coming soon: Two Cate Le Bon dates: Monday 9 November – LONDON – The Social (£4) Saturday 21 November – LONDON – The Borderline (with Nancy ...

Faster than Channel 4 News' fact check, Spinner run a slide rule over Miley Cyrus : "I've never heard a Jay-Z song. I don't...

Echo And The Bunnymen had been due to tour America this month. But now they're not. The IRS apparently wanted some money . They feel tha...

In one of them swap-for-email deals, the Pixies are offering a free ep. You don't even have to go anywhere as there's a widget. Look...

What could persuade you to spend New Years Eve in Utah? How about Wainwrights Rufus, Loudon and Lucy playing together? Park City Eccles Cen...

It's always wise to approach any claims that X is the greatest at Y with extreme caution, especially when the 'X' in question is...

Band Aid. Band Aid II. Band Aid 20. And now... Do They Know It's Christmas is going to have a fourth incarnation - organised by Fucked U...

Poor Chris Brown is all confused : "I'm confused right now as far as the public perception [of me]," he revealed during the up...

Congratulations to Placebo, U2, Jay-Z and Beyonce, who won the prizes for bothering to turn up to the MTV Europe awards. The prizes were han...

Last night's MTV awards in Berlin had an element of looking backwards, but most people were only casting backwards twenty years. Not Gor...

This, then, is where it starts: Our annual round-up of what other people are picking as their best of lists. This post will expand as more p...

How many people who have become famous because of their kids really shown any talent? Edward Enfield, perhaps? And... Why do I suspect that ...

The collapse of the Berlin Wall was a fantastic example of people. Ordinary, brave, pissed-off people taking the law into their own hands. T...

The idea of giving independent US record stores a special, hugely limited edition of Abbey Road to sell is one which has a correctly-positi...

The much-ballyhooed legal intervention Courtney Love was promising over the Karaoke Kurt in Band Hero never showed up - presumably the paper...

Zoe asks the questions that otherwise would be happily unasked: Are X factor fans crazier than fans of all other TV shows? No, Zoe. They...

You might enjoy at least some of the Halifax Pop Explosion highlights currently being splashed about by CBC Radio 3.

Gordon has a detail from the Williams/Ross interview that hasn't been in other reports: "The differences [between Take That and Wi...

If Joss Whedon finds no luck with his $10,000 offer to buy the Terminator franchise, perhaps he might consider investing in another tarnishe...

The most eye-catching thing about the planned Kings of Leon fashion range (yes, really) is the prices: DUE TO MANY REQUESTS - HERE IS A PRI...

It's not exactly a novel idea, and the question is 'what took you so long', but EMI are launching a special division to deal wi...

That Beatles download site? EMI is having a cow and suing BlueBeat . Still, if you don't want to risk the wrath of EMI, but still want t...

And add this into the new diary for next year, too: Four Tet are back. There's an album, There Is Love In You, coming on January 25th. T...

More stuff to look forward to in 2010: Liars will be releasing Sisterworld early on. The title? Oh, there's a high concept attached: Th...