No Rock And Roll Fun

This one even has proper old vinyl clicking at the start: [Part of Parachute Men weekend ]

After nearly a year, Kanye West has sort-of apologised to Taylor Swift for behaving like a cock at the 2009 VMAs: "I'm sorry, Tay...

So, onto homemade videos inspired by the then-current Chart Show approach to 'bugger, there's no video for number seven in the Indie...

Because apparently, if Olly Murs beats Perry's current single to number one tomorrow, he's going to take his clothes off . Gordon ...

A quick dip into some late 80s northern indie today. Fire Records' finest*, The Parachute Men: As far as I can tell, this is the onl...

Yes, he's done it again : [H]e reignites a simmering row about his views on race in an interview in Guardian Weekend magazine, in which...

"Here's the deal: One more bottle and we go home." Axl Rose offered the deal. The Dublin audience took it up, and continued th...

A spot of officialage from The Drums, supporting Down By The Water: [Buy: The Summertime ep ]

Without much of a sense of shame, Richard White and Sean Hamilton (Gordon must be on holiday, then) claim an exclusive on, erm, a court lis...

In Tony Blair's new book, The Journey Which Apparently Ends With Me Turning Into Ted Heath , there's this : A passage on page 555 o...

Apparently Katy Perry feels she's matured since her last album . You know, like a cheese does. Becomes just a little more ripe; you ne...

Hello, large labels, management companies and record labels spokespeople! Can we just take as read your grumpy response to the following sto...

Yesterday's launch of 'oh, so it's a bit like Last FM' Apple's Ping service and rather lovely-looking new iPods might ha...

I suspect Mr Smart must be on holiday right now. He might find this disturbing: Yes, that's one of his deputies, Sean Hamilton, appeari...

In a story about N-Dubz launching a brand of cheap clothes with their logo on : The male members of the band - Fazer and Dappy - will relea...

While you have to admire Mark Ronson's brave attempt to recast being in a jazz choir as a "Glee-like singing group", did Gordo...

Given that Universal and its RIAA partners are constantly pleading poverty, it's heartening to discover the label can find $840,000 to i...

The thing is, there's no real reason to make up stuff about pop stars, as the real stories are quite diverting enough. And this one has ...

Given that this story is completely untrue, it's surprising that Female First run it with anything approaching a straight face : Lady G...

Both the CofE and Sabbath have stuff in common: venerable institutions back in the past, now well past their level of usefulness and run pur...

Imagine The Killers if the rest of the band had no real way of keeping Brandon Flowers' ego in check. They'd be a lot like The Kille...

Pepsi are currently running a charity campaign in the US. Causes looking for funding can bid, encourage people to vote for them, and if they...

It's not often Gordon is spot on, but his reaction to claims that Amy Winehouse is going to be Pete Doherty's landlord is probably ...

When it first became clear that Wyclef Jean might not qualify to be president of Haiti, his team made some encouraging noises about how what...

It might take more than the next Robbie Williams record bucking the downward trend and Terra Firma barking up a few more quid to keep the US...

As is now traditional, the organiser of the festival must have his post-fest interview to declare how well everything went. Melvin Benn has,...

The Moscow Times appears convinced that Bono has saved the threatened Khimki Forest : President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to the cons...

Obviously, it's their choice, but Weezer electing not to be filmed by the BBC during Reading does have a smack of the prima donna about...

This morning, Gordon (or whoever is keeping his chair this morning) has a surprising story about Cliff being buff: THERE aren't many b...

Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne, really hates being thought of as 'Ozzy Osbourne's daughter' : She explained: ...