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Saturday, April 02, 2011

Embed and breakfast man: Stars

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So, this is the video for new Stars single, Changes. It has breasts, a vagina and a tail in it, and thus is NSFW: I'm in two minds ab...
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Liam Gallagher: Not that there's anything wrong with ambition

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You know when you're, say, seven years old, and you haven't quite grasped that the world takes more than wishes to make it run, and ...

Gordon in the morning: Copied off the back of a DVD box set

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Rihanna has filled some bottles with charity and is raffliing them off for UNICEF. Going to be tricky to turn that into anything more, eh, G...
Friday, April 01, 2011

Downloadable: Sons And Daughters

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Hurrah! It's Sons And Daughters, and they're back, back, and... well, you get the picture: Pic: Harley Weir The new album, M...

HMV unlikely to benefit much from budget measure

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The Daily Mail suggested that George Osborne might have saved HMV : HMV has benefited from a much needed Budget boost as Chancellor George ...

Bookmarks - Internet stuff: We to me

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Ben Goldacre abstracts some research into American song lyrics : Over time, use of words related to self-focus and antisocial behavior incr...

You can't stop The Music. Oh, you can.

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The Music - who had an all-too-brief Imperial Phase - are calling it a day . Official statement time: The Music formed in Kippax near Leeds...

Neil McCormick: Did I mention that I know Bono?

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You know what Neil McCormick really likes about his movie about how he knows Bono, based on his book about how he knows Bono? It's a gre...

MySpace: You can't expect lots of visitors in a little month

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Against a background of mutterings about a possible merger with Vevo , the team in charge of MySpace desperately try to keep up spirits and ...

Gordon in the morning: Dog days

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Sadly, this doesn't appear to be Gordon Smart's April Fool - a claim that Victoria Beckham's dog looks like Harvey Keitel : Asi...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Gordon in the morning: Amy Winehouse can breathe again

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Well, that's reassuring : NEW boy ALEX CLARE has said ex-missus AMY WINEHOUSE has nothing to be worried about when he releases his albu...

What the pop papers say: Cold, dead eyes

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There's actually a pretty good NME this week - there's unapologetic coverage of the March 26th march, a long interview with Metronom...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Rihanna: Have I mentioned S&M recently?

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The Daily Mail better brace itself, as just a few days after the paper ran an article slagging off pop music in general and Vogue in partic...

Gennaro Castaldo Watch: Game is afoot

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Staff from dwindling-computer-games giant Game have been spotted nipping into Tesco to buy Nintendo 3DS at silly prices, as they can still m...

RIAA lobbyist now hearing cases of interest to RIAA

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There are times when it might be hard to find a judge who is not only impartial, but can be seen, clearly, to be impartial - if, for example...

Gordon in the morning: Holy Moly Lily

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Lily Allen sending out a wedding invite showing her sitting on the back of some agricultural equipment gives Gordon a chance to show off his...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Bluetones announce a split

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Try not to say "were you still going, then?" as we discover The Bluetones are planning a farewell tour this September. They have ...
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Beyonce dumps her dad

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Beyonce is only sacking her dad in a professional capacity, be very clear about that : “I’ve only parted ways with my father on a business ...

Browne: Bye bye, Bauer

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Nichola Browne, who has been editor of Kerrang! for 18 months, is stepping down and leaving Bauer altogether . Her editorship has been a p...
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Gordon in the morning: Kissing

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Gordon comes over all hot and bothered with a photo of Christina Aguilera : AGUILERA ignores the fact she's in public and gets passiona...

Qua diddly qua qua

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Alan Ant is on On The Ropes on Radio 4 this morning, at 9am. You can hear it again at 9.30pm. And, yes, there is an awkward photo of Adam...
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Amazon want you to build your own streamers

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Quietly launched (on amazon.com , not yet on .co.uk, is Amazon Cloud Storage. You get five gig of free space to store stuff in. Yes, yes, ...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Traditional music industry shrinks again

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Unsurprising news of the day: the global music industry has collapsed , and the RIAA's international arm, the IFPI is blaming lizards. ...

Madonna Kabbalah school staff call in the lawyers

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More misery from the collapse of the Raising Malawi school: Madonna is being sued by eight staff who claim they were forced to accept unfai...

Radiohead: Some amusing tit-fot-tattery

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To mark Radiohead's launch of a newspaper with the King Of Limbs album, The Guardian staff have hit back by forming a band. The Radio Ed...
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A very long way from Crash FM

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Liverpudlians with long memories will recall that Juice started out life as Crash FM, a credible, well-regarded alternative music and dance ...

Dave Pearce heads off to Radio 2 with a quick snark at 6

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Dave Pearce is waving goodbye to 6Music and setting up his camp at Radio 2 , taking the chance for a farewell dig at the network which has b...

Holy Moly sells out

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A side effect of the deal which sees Endemol take a 50% stake in Holy Moly - or "hmm, might be worth suing now" as most celebritie...
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Gordon in the morning: N-Dubz mention the Chilis again

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In case you missed the claims of N-Dubz hanging out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers last month, they're making them again . Although the ...

PRS take falls; blames "piracy"

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For the first time in its history, PRS has taken in less money than for the year before : PRS for Music, the organisation that represents 7...
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