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As always seemed likely, a deal has been hammered together to allow the 2012 and 2013 Coachella festivals to happen . Local residents weren...

Jessie J is going off Twitter - as in being less keen on, rather than leaving - reports Gordon : JESSIE J was one of the first artists to s...

The suspicion that the splitting of Oasis was little more than a gamble to try and increase the value of future dates continues to grow. Bot...

Choose which one you wish to believe: Either way, still quite a dragged-out affair compared with the One Direction sale, which sold out in ...

For reasons we can only speculate about - tax loss? hubris? the enacting of a bet? the loss of a bet? - MC Hammer claims he's launching ...

John Travolta - in town for a Scientology gathering - tried to book a table at the East Grinstead KFC . The KFC politely pointed out that ...

Parody news channel Fox News has gone to war with Maroon 5. Fox quite likes using Maroon 5's music in the gaps between its swivel-eyed...

Bless the poor Daily Telegraph, which struggles enough coping with the modern world outside its own door but now has to try and run stories ...

Bjork's Biophila - partly released via apps rather than just on a CD - is like punk. It must be, she says so: "For 10 years I'...

Good old Muse have donated £15,000 worth of equipment and money to Plymouth University to encourage students on music courses. Now, if th...

Gordon finds room to bring Leigh Holmwood's piece on the Catherine Tate-Jason Orange romance : JASON Orange fell for Catherine Tate the...

When she found out The Current Version Of Hole were booked to play not just the same festival as Limp Bizkit, but straight before Limp Bikz...

Clearly, the slow career progression being enjoyed by Matt Cardle means he's got too much time on his hands: He appears to spend his tim...

This is how it ends: not with a bland, but with a rolling farewell tour. Westlife have announced they're slaughtered their last song ; t...

Here's a surprise: after all the excitement Gordon Smart showed over the Stone Roses reunion, the big story was handed to Tim Nixon to c...

You know that other kind of comeback? The one where a band gets together to do unfinished work rather than because of unpaid solicitor'...

So, by the time it became official there was no surprise left: The Stone Roses are coming back . There's two sorts of reunions; the on...

The people who dance in music videos in America are doing so under an agreement that was drawn up in 1986. The early days of MTV; the days b...

Four years ago, when the NME ran Morrissey's comments about the country being "flooded", the singer threatened to sue the NME ...

Seriously, Gordon, have you reached puberty ? BUXOM Beyonce takes the plunge in a series of gaping suit jackets for her latest video. Fo...

The miserable recent past of UB40 projects into the miserable present, with the band being declared bankrupt following the collapse of DEP ...

There are obvious jokes clinging to the news that Cliff Richard has said that he'd consider euthanasia , mainly of the 'offering to ...

My first thought when I saw that Starbucks was bringing its free music download of the week offer to the UK was 'were they not doing th...

Why are there clearly collaborative paparazzi snaps of Dappy at Butlins all over Bizarre this morning ? The N-Dubz singer organised the bud...

Coachella's future is looking a bit wobbly, as The City Of Indio is dragging its collective feet over signing a deal to allow the festi...

The most-read October 2011 stories so far: 1. Fred Durst gets a sitcom 2. Dan Treacy is in a medically-induced coma 3. Mikey Welsh tweet...

I think it's fair to say that - unlike most of the things he writes - Gordon Smart's excitement at the Stone Roses reunion seems to ...

Never nice to hear of the end of a marriage, especially one that's lasted 27 years, but Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore have announced the...

Clash magazine claims the Stone Roses are reuniting next year : Clash has learned that there is to be a major announcement next week regard...

The sudden resurgence of comedy on US Network television has created a crisis, as there aren't enough funny people to go round. Things a...