No Rock And Roll Fun

Oh, sure, Yoko Ono might have pocketed a bunch of cash for letting Citreon chop John Lennon into an advert . But Sean Lennon is keen to defe...

I'm not sure the world actually needs another Gorillaz album, but as pointless exercises goes, it works. The Guardian is currently strea...

It's not just 6Music and the Asian Network that are being mucked about with at the moment. BBC Local radio is also having one of its per...

Quite brave of JLS to come up with a five year plan - after all, when puberty kicks in they might change their minds. Anyway, Gordon Smart -...

One of the regrets about things I missed while we were in America over the last couple of weeks was a chance to hear this lot's new stuf...

And there you go: Fred Wedlock , singer of The Oldest Swinger In Town, has died. Fred started singing to the customers of the pub he was bor...

An angry RIAA post wails that unlicensed music sharers are stealing bread from the victims of the Haiti earthquake: On the heels of the enc...

It would have been a great opportunity for Erik Hassle: opening for the trending Marina & The Diamonds in New York, and then on to SXSW...

It's been a miserable week or two for Sellaband. First there was the report that Public Enemy had failed to scrape enough together to ma...

Willie Nelson has just confirmed he's playing Glastonbury this year .

Apart from the questionable 'Herr' at the start (is nobody above deciding that someone they disagree with must be a Nazi, and then c...

Eric Avery's uncomfortable presence on the seemingly never-ending Janes Addiction reunion meant they could market themselves as the cla...

Hello, Jessica Simpson? If someone calls you "sexual napalm", like John Mayer did, and it really upset you, perhaps you might lik...

Whoever would have thought we'd live long enough to see a chart battle between Gracie Fields and The Courteeners? One a clapped-out act ...

Unlikely to gather quite large enough a crowd for Ed Vaizey to throw his weight behind saving it, but MTV2 is being dumped . In its place, a...

So, it's official: Mark Thompson is going round to 6Music and the Asian Network and asking them to turn the music off. Not straight away...

Since a CAPTCHA only exists to decide if the entity which is looking at it is capable of decoding it, is there anything morally wrong with u...

Writing in the Times, Pete "Peter" Paphides worries that the exciting new music industry might be good for big bands, but tough fo...

Are you doing anything tomorrow? How about spending twelve hours with Autechre? As they prepare for the launch of the new album Oversteps , ...

Let's remember, the next time that Noel Gallagher pops up pretending to be some sort of rockstar wild figure, that he wants to own his o...

There's not so much a debt to Siouxsie and Banshees here as a large, secured borrowing item on the balance sheet, but this is not a Bad ...

You might not have had much cause to visit the Dubstar website of late . But perhaps you should. For right now, there's a gorgeous black...

Just a few days after the BBC Trust said it thought 6Music was a good thing and should be preserved comes a nasty rumour that it's going...

Let's try this post again with some actual words in it, shall we? The NME Awards happened out of their box last night , and in a surpris...

Did you realise dry-humping accident magnet Akon was working for Capital Radio? No, I didn't either. I'd somehow missed his glorious...

Things keep looking grimmer and grimmer for Cheryl Cole. How grim? SINITTA has declared that she's "praying" for her X Factor ...

Camper Van Beethoven hope to get to SXSW this year. In order to make this dream come true, they're inviting fans to sponsor a song in th...

The revived Chapterhouse have just announced a date in Brooklyn . Wooo-oooh, wooooo- oooh , and so on.

Almost as if every single vote counted, the government has announced that it won't be bringing forward plans to disconnect filesharers ...

FM107.9 in Oxford won its licence to broadcast on the promise of being a station aimed at the city's young and student population. It...