No Rock And Roll Fun

This is the "American Version" of what a YouTube commenter calls the "greatest love song of all time": [Part of Longp...

Obviously, copyright law has little in common with natural justice, but the ruling this week that the RIAA can get paid twice for the same i...

Oh, how much younger we all were then; from the early days of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Crispin Hunt attempting to decipher Meat Loaf lyrics...

The other great Sheffield band of their generation, and deserving more than just being a footnote in articles about Richard Hawley, let'...

Gordon Smart reports that Mick Jagger and David Bowie are working on a comedy movie . Oddly, the only mention of David Bowie in the entire...

Good news for people making wrong soup: Courtney Love is selling off her unwanted clothes . Some are only previously owned by her; others...

The decision of Bob Dylan to play only those songs that the Beijing government approved of always looked a bit weak. Playing that approved...

I'm wondering if NME ought to try taking a leaf out of Whizzer And Chips, and turning itself into two magazines in one. That way, you co...

Adele's only-slightly-less-impressive-because-the-charts-have-less-meaning-now chart achievements of the last few weeks has given Gennar...

The only music company that you can play Only Connect with, RCRDLBL, are introducing registration and user accounts . As ever, when this s...

Having suddenly noticed that they're running a rambling, never-ending competition the Grammys are having a bit of a cull , shrinking fro...

Once again, Gordon Smart breaches the Press Complaints Commission code of practice , particularly this bit: Editors must not use the fame, ...

Steve Penk's The Revolution radio station isn't just there to encourage suicidal people to kill themselves. Now, it's also th...

One of the certainties about music is that the deep, deep animosity between Ian Brown and John Squire meant that The Stone Roses, at least, ...

What do you see, Katy Perry , when you look from the stage? "It turns me on to stare someone deep in their eyes," she tells MTV N...

Now, I'm sure that Maria Martin-Prat is a fine, upstanding person. But someone who has taken money from the copyright industry - as Depu...

I'm glad you asked. Brian Primack at the University of Pittsburgh has been investigating teenage depression and music , and is starting ...

From last night's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Wire. Actual Wire, doing Red Barked Trees: [Buy Wire - Red Barked Tree album ] [vi...

Scott Columbus, former drummer with Manowar, has died , says former bandmate Ross Friedman. Columbus joined the band shortly after their f...

A new low today - actually, that's unfair, it's more a further bump along the bottom - as Gordon struggles to write something, anyth...

Some grim news this morning: Bryan Ferry is in hospital . There's been a brief statement: The spokesman said: "Bryan has been feel...

Lady GaGa continues her downward spiral from hero to Madonna-wrapped-in-meat with an attempt to force photographers to give her their work :...

Not very much backing up its claims, but Radio Today is pretty certain the current owners of Absolute Radio are looking for a buyer .

Bascha watches the record industry squawk as Amazon allow you to swap a hard drive at your house for a hard drive in the cloud , and sighs a...

Is it any wonder the musicians of Canada are left bumbling about in the world of the new-fangled internets? The CRIA website suggests that ...

Here's a sad tale. The manager of One Soul Thrust was doodling about online, stuck his band's name in a torrent search engine, and d...

It's hard to work up too much energy over the Kings Of Leon v Glee feud; it's a bit like Kasabian going to war with Tickle On The Tu...

This morning, Gordon Smart announces an extra wedding in a busy schedule : If you were thinking PRINCE WILLIAM's nuptials were shaping ...

Mixed news from HMV this morning, which has just issued a third profits warning so far this year. But alongside marking down its expected...

The Wall Street Journal's All Things D reckons that, given that nobody is showing much interest, the process of dumping MySpace into the...