No Rock And Roll Fun

As you might imagine, there's a lot of Adam Yauch memories being shared online today. Here's a quick dip into some of them. Dose.c...

Gordon will, of course, have fact-checked this claim to within an inch of its life : [Brad Pitt is] getting into the spirit of living over ...

Just hearing that the Beastie Boy's Adam Yauch has died . He'd been living with a cancer diagnosis for three years; he was 47. [UP...

Here's a headline to make you swell with pride : Beyonce Wins Journalism Award I guess it's balancing things out after Peter Oborne...

Courtney Love has left the management of End Of Music, which controls the exploitation of Kurt Cobain's image, in return for a massive l...

Interestingly, Gordon Smart's Bizarre is no longer the home of showbizzyness on The Sun website, but a subsection. I suspect this happ...

Tulisa has won the annual title of Most Famous Woman Prepared To Do An FHM Photoshoot ("FHM sexiest woman in the world") and has b...

The bad news: Boulder's Fox Theatre is closing . The good news: it's only going to be shut for the summer, as it rebuilds itself. ...

How has the battle against The Pirate Bay gone? The BPI's expensive legal blockade might not be a roaring success , according to Torrent...

Viagogo, the closest you can get to touting without being a tout company, have fled the UK to set up shop in the more relaxed legal atmosph...

You've got to love the Kerrang Awards - the shortlist is packed with eyeliner and studded metal, but still manages to find space for Th...

There's a strange, stumpy review of the Rufus Wainwright gig at the Lyceum today: RUFUS Wainwright’s new album is called Out Of The Ga...

From Vox, via Rock's Back Pages and Guardian Music , enjoy again Stephen Dalton's 1992 meeting with My Bloody Valentine: Fixing a p...

Er... TOPLESS Kate Moss is a dishy fish in a pair of shimmering golden trousers which make her look like a mermaid. How would a mermaid wea...

The grim attempts to force us to have fun connected to the Olympics grind on. (I've checked, by the way, it really is the Olympics we...

The BPI has won a historic High Court judgement forcing UK ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay . This isn't great news - the idea o...

This is actually exciting: Kevin Shields has told Uncut there's going to be an LP and a couple of EPs from My Bloody Valentine . This ...

Apparently, Mark Owen is taking a new direction for his solo career . Gordon insists it will "surprise" fans. Really? It's n...

Cory Doctrow, writing on Boing Boing , has welcomed the news that the Brazilian Senate is proposing an overhaul on how royalties are collect...

Louder Than War is marking the first anniversary of the loss of Poly Styrene with a tribute from John Robb : Not only have we been robbed o...

To build their Facebook timeline into a full-on history, Saint Etienne are inviting fans to email them with photos, memorabilia, memories, ...

Christina Aguilera is far, far too grand to talk backstage to The Wanted . This has surprised and upset The Wanted: Speaking on Now FM, M...

Music has faced some terrible things in its time. The second act of Peter Andre's career. Paul Weller chumming up with Noel Gallaghe...

The most-read stories published in April 2012: 1. The illustrated Friends 2. Joni Mitchell retires and fights the nano-bugs 3. The illus...

Another staggering piece of high-quality journalism from Gordon Smart this morning : [Olly Murs] admitted he only used to head to malls wit...

Long-standing Las Vegas musician Thomas Marth has died. Marth is probably best known for his work with The Killers - he played on Sam...

- has Meg heard the album? - I don't know... she doesn't often answer the phone. I don't know if she's heard it; I'd ha...

Apparently George Galloway keeps in touch with his reality TV chums - he says he got Pete Burns released from a police cell . The Telegraph ...

A dispatch from Kasabian's US tour bus? With Gordon Smart's very own byline on it ? Surely this must be a deeply serious story. Br...

Presumably assuming we don't understand that most chart pop hits are now made like Per Una trousersuits, sitched together to a basic des...