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Former member of Fleetwood Mac Bob Welch has died , apparently of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. His Guardian obituary contains one of tho...

Westboro Baptist Church (motto: "what would Jesus do if he was a tossy blowhard?") had planned a protest to bring their fantastica...

Samsung have become the latest company to burn through cash thinking that the way to defeat iTunes is to create something pretty similar to ...

Fear Factory seem to have missed an opportunity. Their new album, The Industrialist, is about a machine which becomes sentient, so you'd...

The new NME wants its readers to vote for the best Bowie song ever . The last time the NME was inviting readers to vote for a Bowie song, ...

Nothing is an indicator that gravity's tractor beam has got your career firmly locked in its pull than calls from the reality TV researc...

Herb Reed, the last original platter, has died . Reed quit the band in 1969, starting his own rival version; he was legally given the righ...

It might only be June, but already people in the music industry are working hard on plans to spoil Christmas. In the list of 'things t...

The Front National in France is claiming it intends to sue Madonna after a backdrop video for her new tour superimposes a swastika on Marin...

I suppose you should perhaps be impressed that Usher is honest enough to say that being currently famous means he gets to have sex with peop...

In The Guardian , Matthew Horton wonders what the synth-pop class of 2009 has in store: La Roux's route looks darker. Her first album p...

Today, for some reason Gordon runs a school photo of Rita Ora : RITA ORA hasn’t changed much from her school days. She left school all of t...

This is how the music industry should be working, all the time. Deus had some songs, which they thought would make a nice album. So they...

HMV have sold the Hammersmith Apollo to the operator of the Millennium Dome for £32million. It's the first step in HMV exiting the li...

What do you get the Elvis fan who has everything? Here's perhaps the ultimate piece of memorabilia - assuming you'd draw the line at...

Ween have called it a day . Aaron Freeman/Gene Ween told Rolling Stone: "It's time to move on. I'm retiring Gene Ween... It...

Samantha wanted to go to the Coldplay gig. Let's not judge her for that, a lot of people like Coldplay. Trouble is, Samantha needed ac...

Isn't that called bondage, Newsbeat?

You know that game where you say who'd play you in a film of your life? One Direction play that. Gordon Smart runs it as his lead story ...

The NME reports on a shocking desecration of our nation's heritage : Dave Rowntree hits out after historic Blur graffiti is removed fro...

Suspicions that Shirley Manson might be some sort of pop star superhero are growing, with the news that she had a bloke thrown out of a Garb...

One out of One Direction being woken up by a naked man? Apparently it's a security issue. Or, rather, that's how Gordon tries to rep...

At first you have to get past the surprise that there was a Franz Ferdinand gig in Sao Paulo which was so popular there was a crowd control ...

Yes, you heard the headline. There's a new release from Ted Chippington - five hundred, limited edition, vinyl only and available throug...

There's an especially vicious piece in Gordon's realm this morning, as Miranda Prynne (pronounced "pryin'", presumably...

Is there nothing that Kanye West won't turn his hand to? (By "turn his hand to" I mean "grunt at drawings of and sign off...

Inevitably, given their profile, the world is now being softened up for a bunch of clothes supposedly designed by The Wanted . Because The...

After a couple of weeks of insisting she wouldn't back down to satisfy the demands of religious fundamentalists protesting against her J...

We've all had some time for it to settle in now: apparently Engelbert Humperdinck wasn't a secret weapon at all. Indeed, I'm hop...

The most-read May stories are: 1. Mick Jagger loves Boris Johnson 2. The Kerrang awards shortlist 3. Liveblog: Eurovision 2012 4. Gary ...