No Rock And Roll Fun

Something hard to believe in the 3AM column isn't that unusual. But surely this is going a little too far? : Scouting For Girls perform ...

You have to hope she didn't wait : Sir Cliff Richard dumped his first serious girlfriend by letter, saying he had to put his pop career ...

Starting a rubbish piece about N-Dubz moving house , Gordon clears his throat: N-DUBZ will forever be remembered as those scamps from Camden...

Bauer is using its music magazines as a test-bed for a new contract which effectively sucks away most of the benefits of being a freelance w...

Vince Hilaire was a black footballer in the First Division at a time when that wasn't always a comfortable thing to be: "After abou...

After an unexpected hiatus following the death of Malcolm last night, we're picking this feature up again tonight with Billy Corkhill. Y...

In a wonderful piece of misguided stunt casting, Robert Pattinson has been lined up (apparently) to be Kurt Cobain in the biopic of his life...

Also coming to the UK: Hope Sandoval. Oh, and Ireland and Spain: May 6th: Black Box - Belfast May 7th: Whelan's in - Dublin, Ireland May...

Adam Liversage of the BPI was busy with other matters than simply watching his beloved Digital Economy Bill pass the other day, struggling w...

Yep, she's coming to the UK: 24th May: Café OTO, London 25th May: St Margaret’s Church, Manchester 26th May: Cluny 2, Newcastle 27th May...

BBC News is reporting the death of Malcolm McLaren in New York, apparently from cancer. UPDATE: Alan Yentob has just been on the News Channe...

Yesterday's rotten vote approving bad legislation made in haste was notable for how few of our legislators could be bothered to show up....

Coming to any TV you don't disable with an axe: Why Not? With Shania Twain on the Oprah Winfrey Network: The hour-long "Why Not? W...

This morning, Gordon is fuming at a booking for N-Dubz : N-DUBZ will share a stage with some of music's biggest names - from 1992. DAPPY...

First, the encouraging news: 6Music has received seven nominations in this year's Sony Radio Awards . Amongst the shortlisted names are ...

As if being in prison and suicidal wasn't bad enough, for some prisoners in the US, they're now going to have Lil Wayne in charge of...

The splendidly named Cole Goforth tried to go to school wearing his Lady GaGa t-shirt. The school - Greenbrier High School - decided that I ...

"... and anyone else who knows me." One of two lines which are just the band name checking their mates. It reflects back well on t...

Paris Grey - or Shanna Jackson, as her mam knew her - is another legendary vocalist. Her breakthrough came with this definitive Chicago Hous...

Interesting tweet from Nick King : @madmezza Sorry I hadn't properly understood #debill Made some enquiries last night - strong oppositi...

Man wears hat .

I can give you what you want. Oh, except that NYPC are basically trying to make us all forget that first, day-glo, kiss-chase first album to...

The constant mantra, both in the Commons and when Labour justify trying to rush the DEBill through in the closing hours of business of this ...

A lovely big, positive piece on the NME and new editor Krissi Murison was the highlight of yesterday's MediaGuardian - the newspaper...

Creator of Les Patterson, Dame Edna and Barry McKenzie, Humphries also invented Australian experimental music - creating "Wubbo" i...

I only ask because... well... their sponsored advertising suggests they might not be quite aimed at the youngest audience any more:

Oh no, it must be Gordon's nightmare : THE battle lines have been drawn between JLS and N-DUBZ. The rival bands are competing for the sa...

Geoff Taylor of the BPI has just been on Today talking about the Digitial Economy Bill. It's impossible to tell if he really is an idiot...

How many times now have we seen reporters suddenly "discovering" that vinyl sales rising again? There's another piece in the T...

Brian Hayes is the man who was edged out of Radio 2 to make way for the return of Terry Wogan, when Wogan returned from TV. Oddly, they didn...