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It'd be lovely to have something like The Late Show back on TV, wouldn't it? This is The Muses doing Counting Backwards on the progr...

Katie Melua doesn't. She thinks she's actually an alien or something or other or something: She said: "I don't even know ...

This would be the big hit, probably. Caught during the first run of Channel 4's never-much-loved Big World Cafe: [Buy: Dizzy EP down...

One of the nice things about shopping at Target is their pledge to donate a healthy chunk of their take to local charities. Every five per c...

Coming soon: an album cobbled together from Michael Jackson cast-offs : According to CNN, the record will feature tracks that were left off...

With Kristin Hersh just having released her book-album combo Crooked , what better time for a look back at the genuinely-manic-driven Throwi...

Just a few short days after Gordon Smart's snurkling at a gay man and casual tossing about of "bender", Joe McElderly chooses...

Of course, little Liam, now you're head of the gang, you're going to be very excited about things. But are you sure about this? “I’...

Disability Discrimination Act grief for HMV in Portsmouth, where a move to hide all the CDs and DVDs upstairs is causing would-be customers ...

Sorry, did I just call them the Kerrang Awards? I forgot the sponsor's name, didn't I? Let's try that again... The Horrible En...

It's not often Gordon Smart brings news of Morrisey to his readers, but today there's news of the man: But RUSSELL BRAND and KATY ...

Marketing Week takes Tony Hayward and BP to task - not, of course, for letting acres of oil swoosh into the oceans and killing birds and fis...

Yesterday, we heard about Emmy The Great raising funds to make a new album ; today, something new from the world of fan-funded projects: Som...

The really strange thing about the coverage of the decision of Nadine Coyle to quit Girls Aloud (or, rather, the rest to quit Nadine) is th...

Ben Keith, for four decades a vital part of Neil Young's backing team, has died . Born in Kansas, Keith once landed himself in hospita...

Emmy The Great started asking for pledges towards making the next album. Yesterday. Today, they're 75% of the way there , so if you wa...

Al Goodman, the 'Goodman' in Ray, Goodman and Brown, has died . Originally drafted in by the Stang label to replace the original M...

Gordon's been off the to the premiere of The A-Team , meeting the cast in London. He describes this as a "childhood dream come true...

There's currently a legal tussle going on in Belgium over whether it's really Plastic Betrtand who sang on Ca Plane Pour Moi. The Gu...

Aled Richards, who used to be doing the dubberdubberdubber behind Cerys Matthews, is going to fill the gap in Killing For Company left by th...

I guess running round the house making vuvuzela noises is an inappropriate way to greet the news of a Swans European tour : Oct 21- Cork, I...

A shower of glorious love to David Hepworth and The Word for pointing the world in the direction of the New York Times wedding section . Al...

Flags currently being run up various masts as Wyclef Jean tests the waters for a possible Haitian presidential bid : In a statement, the fa...

This is tiresome: Pineapple Dance Studios star Louie, or Louise as I like to call him Do you see? Because he's gay, Gordon has given hi...

The world is trying to cope with Miley Cyrus's new dressing-up-box sexuality. Can such a sudden shift of emphasis work for an artist - a...

Anyone who heard the Jeeves And Wooster album knows that Hugh Laurie is actually pretty nifty behind the piano, so the prospect of a new rec...

We're firmly back in the era when anything Take That does is treated like it's part of the run-up to the That/Gurner redocking. Even...

Something of a treat, now - Maki Nomiya from just last month, doing a medley of Pizzicato Five songs, live on stage in Ontario: [Part of...

MTV trumpets the end of the uberdinosaurs : Rolling Stones To Retire Band set to announce last ever world tour... And not a moment too soo...

The New York Times introduces its readers to sissy bounce (even dusting off the phrase "gender bending" in the process): And the...