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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Georgia embraces Widespread Panic

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Widespread Panic are celebrating 25 years in showbusiness, and so their home state of Georgia invited them in to play a couple of songs to ...

Closing Borders

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Britain's Borders went months and months ago; earlier this week the Australian flavour closed down altogether, and in the US the compan...

Gordon in the morning: Close Boyle

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I suppose, since Streep is doing Thatcher, it left the casting for the pointless Susan Boyle biopic (plot: an hour and a half of pottering r...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Rolling Stone tries to clarify Bieber's abortion positon

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Anti-choice munchkin Justin Bieber drifted into talking about abortion in his Rolling Stone interview , coming down so far to the right on t...
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Michael Jackson almost fills debt hole from the grave

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Earlier this week, some news places were reporting that Michael Jackson was afraid he'd end up working in McDonalds if his London comeb...

Alice In Chains in chains

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Turns out Celebrity Rehab doesn't actually work - whoever would have guessed? - as former inmate Mike Starr has apparently fallen off th...

Gordon in the morning: Kelly on the telly

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So it sounds like Being In The Stereophonics isn't lucrative enough any more : KELLY JONES is working on a second career away from the ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Streaming now: Dum Dum Girls

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Oooh! Dum Dum Girls cover The Smiths:

Justin Bieber won't have sex without love

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To be honest, I'd have thought the lack of descended testicles would have been the main stumbling block before Justin Bieber would have ...

No Doubt v Activision: Game on

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Courtney Love's much-tweeted threat of legal action against Activision seems to have fallen by the wayside, but Band Hero has still had ...

Downloadable: Free Swim

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You might not have heard of Free Swim, which makes them - therefore - as great as The Arcade Fire. Or something. This is a free ep about a p...
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Bookmarks - Internet stuff: Brits 2011 & Grammys

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Lovely piece over on Sweeping The Nation about the "I do not know this band so how can they have won a prize" reaction to the pri...

Breaking News: NME sale down 16.4%

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MediaGuardian is just flashing the latest magazine circulation figures; amongst the headlines is a further chunky drop in the NME figures of...
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Llangollen International Eisteddfod tries to get down with the kids

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Organisers of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod want to attract a "younger audience". So they've, erm, sent for Lulu ....
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AsianFX to close

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While Gaydar is throwing its hopes and dreams onto DAB, others are struggling: AsianFX is closing . They can't make DAB pay: A spokespe...

6Music and 1Xtra hacked, apparently

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According to Websense , the 6Music and 1Xtra websites have somehow become injected with malicious code: The injected iframe occurs at the f...

Gays coming out the Sky

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For a while, conventional wisdom has held that a radio station looking for digital distribution is better off going with satellite TV rather...

Gordon in the morning: And then Take That came out wearing the very same uniforms

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Gordon has all the hot news from the day before yesterday, as he tries to read the notes he scribbled at the Brits. Plan B is moaning thta ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Gennaro Castaldo Watch: Brits 2011: Sales figures

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Poor Gennaro has had to take to posting his own press releases rather than appearing in papers, times are so hard at HMV. He's rushed...
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Twittergem: Radiohead

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From @thisisfakediy : Paging Razorlight: Radiohead have raised the hat based promo shot bar. http://bit.ly/hQMstB
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Gordon in the morning: Brits 2011: Protective Corden

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Although Gordon finds space to transcribe Rihanna saying 'wow' at last night's Brits, and offers no fewer than four pieces abou...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Brits 2011: Liveblog

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7.51 Somewhere in Greenwich, James Corden is running through his lines. "I wonder if giving my fee to charity will stop people criti...
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Arcade Fire: I have never heard of them, therefore the fault must lie with them

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Good work to whoever it was who started Who Is Arcade Fire , a collection of blinking tweets and puzzled Facebook statuses from people whose...
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Lady GaGa: Not actually saying it doesn't sound like Madonna

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Lady GaGa seems a bit annoyed by everyone pointing out her new song Born Like Madonna is a bit like a Madonna song. She popped up on Leno to...

Gordon in the morning: The Beatle Ballet

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The most interesting thing about Sunday night's BAFTAs was the discovery that Paul McCartney is slowly morphing into Melvyn Bragg. And d...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Bookmarks - Internet stuff: The Human League

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There's a lovely interview with The Human League over on The Quietus : Joanne Catherall: Well, our last record didn’t do as well as exp...

Gordon in the morning: Gordon at the Grammys

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Yes, Gordon Smart uses "Lesbi Friends" in a headline .

Grammys 2011: Winners

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. She arrived in an egg . In an egg! What larks! Although musically Lady GaGa is becoming more an...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Bono visits South Africa; suggests singing "shoot the Boer" 'has its place'

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Against a background of thousands of white farmers being murdered over the last couple of decades, and a court judgement making it plain tha...
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Kia drives over The Message

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The Kia campaign which features Melle Mel wanking for coins isn't, to be fair, the first time The Message has been trampled on for adver...
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