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Funny thing about industrial music is that, by nature of its reliance on heavy bass, it tends to be bloody awful when bootlegged on video ca...

Here's a funny thing. When someone like Courtney Love turns up to address the Oxford Union, the press dutifully treat it as if it someho...

Continuing his one man protest against the banks, Billy Bragg went to the HQ of RBS today for a gathering. Alright, it's not a one man ...

Hello, if you're a young person joining us through the Facebook for the first time. We're grinding the terrible, out-of-touch, decis...

In order to help Google Buzz out a bit, No Rock is making Facebook a little bit less good by launching what you have to call a 'presence...

A request from @dillpickle , in the shape of Nitzer Ebb's 1989 collaboration with Die Krupps: Join the rhythm of machine Feel the power ...

This is the sort of promotional email that I like: We're Oreaganomics. The attached song Self Assembled Martyr is from our new ep Apath...

This was the one that cracked Nitzer Ebb into my skull, on the much-missed BBC Radio Sussex Sunday night indie show Turn It Up. This version...

From @theQuietus : Well done Time Out picture caption writers: Pete Doherty is 'the Mr Bean of hard drugs'

It's not actually news that Status Quo are ardent royalists and tend to fawn when they stand down wind from anything from a Duchess upwa...

... but in case a free Nitzer Ebb download isn't enough for you, how about some sweat-dripping video action? If you're anything lik...

Monday sees the release of Nitzer Ebb's new album, Industrial Complex . We're nearly there. In the mean time, keep your inner, slave...

It's a very, very quiet day over at Bizarre. This quiet , in fact: LONG before MARVIN HUMES was landing No1s or winning my Caner Of The ...

Our Love Was Saved By A Spaceman. They're back, and they're giving it away for free .

John Mayer has just done an interview with Playboy. As if that wasn't enough to turn your stomach, the magazine handed him enough rope t...

A press release with the heading "The Return of The Buggles" can only be opened with a sense of trembling anticipation. And, being...

Dave Frey is the manager of Cheap Trick, and he's upset. Neilsen Soundscan collates the data which goes into the Billboard charts, but -...

Gordon splashes this morning on the terrible news that Brit nominees are turning down invites like they're "come to the disembowel...

The good news: Cerys Matthews will be returning to 6Music at Easter. The bad news: She's going to be doing a single Sunday show. Which ...

It's a head-over-to-some-other-site deal, but at least ABC aren't blocking it to viewers outside the 50 states: Editors do Papillon ...

The We Are The World effort for Haiti is clear-sighted. Egos put to one side, pulling together for the common good. Not losing sight of the ...

Celine Dion took part in the Grammy mawkathon in honour of Michael Jackson. But she wasn't happy. No, no. She was angry : [She] admits i...

Ortise Williams, one of JLS, nearly got himself all beaten up. Or so he says, anyway : , "It was quite unsettling. I was in Currys. I c...

It's just not a song about ping-pong. In fact, it's something totally new from Operator Please. Download Logic , which will be the f...

Q's surprisingly long reign as biggest-selling paid-for pop magazine has come to an end, with latest ABC circulation figures seeing it ...

Acting at the behest of unknown forces waving DCMA notices, Google has wiped music-hosting blogs off the net : "We'd like to inform...

Having had everyone troop into court last week to sentence his attacker, only to insis through his lawyer that he wanted to appear to give a...

Gordon's work promoting pop acts is picking up a gear with, for some reason, Bizarre pushing a Brrrap tour of Britain . They're trav...

More interesting than Bronfman's honking about how people giving him money in return for listening to his products isn't a viable bu...

Warners' Edgar Bronfman Junior has been doing some thinking aloud about advertising-supported music. He doesn't like it: Warner chi...