No Rock And Roll Fun

Cruising with the Backstreet Boys. It sounds like the sort of video that demands credit card details, doesn't it? But it was actually a ...

I was thinking earlier this week, in a quiet moment, that the world was just about due some new Ladytron electropoise. And, lo, the mighty g...

The Concretes are also back, back, back - and, splendidly, they know sound like their own band, rather than a misplaced attempt to fill the ...

Lovely news that the Freelance Whales are back, back, back... and they've been trapped in a free download box: Bring yourself up to ...

- Morning, Bizarre junior. Anything to pad out the bits that aren't talking about the Katie Price divorce this morning? - Nothing much,...

Simon Tyers has written a beautiful tribute to Trish Keenan for the Line Of Best Fit : While they made no secret of their primary debt to L...

Much as how we should politely turn away when Sting says "you know what Trude and I did last night? I saw her titties and everything...

Oh, good lord : In a frank and occasionally crude interview, [Sting] said: ‘When we see each other, it’s romance. I don’t think pedestrian ...

Tim Chester's reaction to the Brits shortlist for NME.com says more about the NME than the Brits, to be honest: And judging by the nom...

The general reaction to the Neilsen survey into online music habits is a bit off. Rolling Stone is a pretty good misplaced reaction: Ni...

The awkwardness of the word "faggot" turning up in Money For Nothing has taken a good quarter-century to bite Dire Straits on the ...

Sadly, it's not just a Twitterumour: Warp Records have confirmed the death of Trish Keenan from Broadcast : It is with great sadness we...

Pitchfork marks a year since Jay Reatard's too-early death . It's a warm piece, with memories from those who knew with him: Britt D...

So, Gordon Smart and the Bizarre team have ponied up some support for this year's Brit Awards, which must mean the Sun man will get some...

God alone knows why ITV2 aren't bothering to show the Brits nominations programme until 9pm tomorrow night - over a day after the shortl...

Ireland does have a history of pitching unstomachable acts to Eurovision - Dustin The Turkey, for example - but surely putting Jedward in th...

Nice bit on the Oxford University Press blog about teaching the British Invasion : The college classroom allows opportunities for reflectio...

Boy, is Mike Jones going to be stung in his inbox today. The MySpace CEO has admitted that Murdoch might offload the fading site: Today, M...

She's got an immovable face; if you pick her up you're guaranteed to get some time on-screen from ITV and although there's some ...

Margaret Whiting, one of the first artists signed to Capitol Records, has died . Whiting's father, Richard Whiting, was a successful s...

If we're to believe The New York Post , there's an unlikely duet being set up even as we speak. Tony Bennett ("I Left My Hear...

The Flaming Lips are doing a song-a-month throughout 2011. Which is the perfect chance for David Gedge to point out that The Wedding Present...

Talking to the NME , Chris Martin looks at his work to date: "We still don't think we've delivered our masterpiece, so we'...

It's lovely of Guy Hands to give No Rock And Roll Fun a tenth birthday present, with a move that demonstrates everything the music indu...

There seems to be a general assumption that coming out has been good for Chely Wright - which seems to be based on little more than people n...

The surprising thing is not that there's an academic conference focusing on the Take That reunion, nor that the story is picked up the t...

Ten years ago this morning, the first post appeared on this blog. Of course, it was always going to take bit of time to hit our stride and...

Last time I wrote about MySpace, someone sounding very much like a MySpace employee astroturfed the comments. That's less likely to happ...

Back - what, twenty five years ago? - the NME ran a front page story claiming black music in Britain didn't stand a chance, in a large p...

Sometimes, you have to wish that Gordon would stick to just printing the photos of people in their skimpies. That way, at least, we'd be...