No Rock And Roll Fun

NPR have got the first, proper recording from Wild Flag. If you need a prompt: [T]he recently formed band featuring former NPR Music blog...

Christopher Caldwell mourns Borders' demise in The FT [irritating registration required]. He focuses more on its core book business, bu...

In a bid to try and come up with something new to say as he pushes the same old stories, John Lydon has decided he doesn't like being ca...

The one thing we can hope about Murdoch adding all of BSkyB to his Xanadu collection is that maybe he'll tell his editors to stop spendi...

Maroon 5 - yes, it turns out they're still going for some reason - are inviting fans to tell them what their music sounds like . Given...

Fresh from last night's Jimmy Fallon: [ Buy: Wounded Rhymes ]

Robbie Williams won't see 35 again. This irrefutable fact doesn't seem to have stopped Gordon Smart being surprised that Williams...

Why hasn't there been an Avril Lavigne record since 2007? Well, yes, I'm sure that "nobody was interested in buying one"...

Getting on for a year ago now, Armenia-British band Vo.X churned out a pop video which suggested that being gay was a "peversion",...

Jessie J "guest edits" Bizarre this morning. As guest editor, she'll get the respect she deserves, right? Erm... : IF JESSIE ...

Last time, two years ago, when Joe Long tried to close New York record store Birdels, he wasn't allowed to. His customers made him keep ...

Prince is being sued by his own lawyers who claim he owes USD700,000 in unpaid legal bills . Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler reckon tha...

Unpleasantly lurking in the belly of Spotify is hard-right band Skrewdriver and their Live At Waterloo album. I'm sure the advertisers...

Some bad news via the press team looking after Poly's new album: It comes as a huge shock to all those who know Poly Styrene and X-ray ...

It's understandable that Gennaro Castaldo might be grasping at any straws right now, but even bearing that in mind, his rant calling for...

Music Week reports on a couple of surveys about unlicensed music: The debate around P2P and its impact on music sales is never short of co...

While it's noble of Nelly Furtado to give to charity the million dollars she got for playing a 2007 concert for the Gadaffi family , per...

Got 79p kicking about that you'd like to swap for something lovely and which will also help stand up to governments who would abuse huma...

As John Lydon grinds through some pantomime fauxpinions on the X Factor . By accident, Gordon is quite acute in his response: SEX PISTOLS...

Given that we've only completed two months of 2011 so far, it might seem surprising that MHV are already on their second profits warning...

So, the mysterious "major media company" who is set to snaffle Thumbplay - the unpopular US subscription service - is revealed: Al...

Because nobody has asked him to make a movie this summer, Justin Timberlake is threatening to make a record this summer . "I'm une...

Susan Rotolo, one of Bob Dylan's muses, has died . Rotolo met Dylan in 1961 and the pair moved in together the following year. It was ...

Ray Davies has suggested that, since Dave Davies thinks that a Kinks reunion would be a night of the living dead, he'll get the gang bac...

Another would-be iTunes killer lies twitching in the long grass, as Thumbplay , home of a $9.99 subscription service, sells itself for what ...

Thanks to @amoammo who - on hearing of the MTV Oma Awards tweets us with this: hahaha saw your blogpost on those new MTV awards. You know...

A day off for N-Dubz : N-DUBZ must be the only grime stars to head off to a theme park during their time out. Really, Gordon? Wouldn't ...

I've tried reading this from ContactMusic a dozen times , and still can't understand how anyone thinks it is a sequitur: The Gossip...

A moment to enjoy a photo of the band, and - more importantly - one of their songs: [Buy: Panic On the album ] [Part of Madder Rose wee...

The most-read articles this month have been: 1. Brits Liveblog 2. Rolling Stone tries to clear up Beiber's 'rape happens for a re...