No Rock And Roll Fun

At the start of the month, you might remember a crypt in which the corpulent corpse of the late Elvis Presley rested while paperwork was co...

Vince Power is quite clear when he condemns the BBC for getting into the festival business : The Hackney Weekend has been criticised by vet...

Without a festival to organise, and no cars to drag from a sodden parking field, Michael Eavis had enough time on his hands to guest edit th...

From the ever-vigilant Criggo collection:

You'll recall the original band One Direction, who - somewhat surprised to discover Simon Cowell's band of gym receptionists trading...

Bobbie Brown is busy slaving away in front of Microsoft Word , reports Blabbermouth: Bobbie Brown, an actress and model and probably best k...

Stop the presses! Gordon Smart has discovered women have bottoms : Nothing Min-i about Nicki’s bum No, really. In what was once a newspaper...

Tracks from Black Keys' El Camino have turned up soundtracking Pizza Hut and Home Depot adverts. Nobody asked them first. Pizza Hut ...

Mark Durante - who was briefly in the Revolting Cocks - is Kevin Durant, a basketball player over a terrible nickname: According to the su...

The Guardian is currently streaming live from the site of the Glastonbury festival . Yes, you read that correctly.

The US Senate is currently grinding through a decision on whether it should smile upon the merger of Universal and EMI. Yesterday senators h...

With no Glastonbury festival this year, the regulars had to find some other place to go. The cascading heavy rain which makes everyone's...

Oh, sweet Jesus; you're enjoying yourself in America only to open the newspapers and find that Ed Sheeran's there, too. You drag y...

Oh, dear: the potentially lucrative Voice UK tour has been cancelled due to a lack of interest . Eight of the finalists from the series ha...

Google is going to sue YouTube-mp3.org, according to a letter sent to the site's owner . As the name implies, the service takes a YouT...

I'm sure nobody would deny the rights holder the opportunity to flog the dead horse of Never Mind The Bollocks a little more upon its 40...

She has people in her hair, you know. Enjoy, courtesy of the Anxiety marketing push, the Villa remix of Sunday Drive:

I'm a little in love with the new Kate Nash, turned-around-in-a-day track: I'm even more in love with the flicker of horror that...

Brian Hibbard - one of the Flying Pickets - has died . Hibbard was a member of the briefly-popular a capella Flying Pickets, who snagged a...

Terrible news from Toronto, where drum tech Scott Johnson was killed after the Radiohead stage collapsed while it was being erected. John...

Usher is going to play Sugar Ray Robinson in a forthcoming film. He's already trying to attract the attention of the the Academy : ...

Remember dotmusic? The one-time online home of Music Week from the days back when the internet was in black and white and closed down at 10....

There's a great interview with Shirley Manson over at Drowned In Sound , where she wonders what happened to provocative women in music: ...

Billy Corgan thinks that Facebook is stifling innovation in rock music : "You've got a Facebook with a few hundred friends. If you...

Aung San Suu Kyi is going to be in London next week, and at a Foreign Office Reception she's going to meet Dave Lee Travis: Bearded Da...

After all these years, it looks like a combination of Joe Anderson and Grant Shapps have done what Flo Clucas never could, and saved Ringo S...

Given that Tesco is having trouble with its core business right now, and critics are accusing it of neglecting being a shop while heading of...

Superbly feathered hats off to Paul McCartney, who manages to combine fawning over The Queen with epochal self-aggrandisement : Asked what ...

Frances Preston, former CEO of BMI records, has died . Preston started her career in radio before joining BMI in 1958. Her major role was ...

I think we're many years past the point where John Lydon saying warm things about Newt Gingrich has any power to raise more than a murmu...