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Thursday, December 13, 2012

HMV edges closer to the abyss

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Despite all the brave talk when new boss Trevor Moore joined the company a few months ago, things haven't got better for HMV . In fact, ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Gordon in the morning: Arthur life

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Whatever happened to James Arthur, eh? The X Factor winner's single is out now , and Gordon is excited: JAMES ARTHUR’s Impossible had s...

We are the robots.txt

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All you need to know: 7.30am: Tate Modern puts Kraftwerk tickets on sale. 7.31am: entire site crashes. — Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) Decemb...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Bunton to breakfasts

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You know what George Osborne hates? Besides kittens, love, fun, poor people, tax for rich people, biscuits, people mentioning that whole thi...
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Gordon in the morning: Estate agency

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Harry Styles is thinking of buying a house . Oh, but there's a worry: The ONE DIRECTION star is having second thoughts about moving to ...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Duff doesn't want your money

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Money? Duff McKagan doesn't care about your money : Duff McKagan isn't in rock 'n' roll for money. The legendary former G...

Gordon in the morning: Singing from the same sheet

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Girls Aloud can't remember their own songs, apparently : GIRLS ALOUD were never going to be candidates for Mensa – and they proved that...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Meg White showed "no interest"

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Remember back when Jack White was interesting, rather than just some sort of authenticity franchisee? When he was in the White Stripes? Ap...

This week just gone

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Most-read stories from last week: 1. Chart music dies screaming 2. Rita Ora's nipslip that isn't 3. Spotify thinks you need help...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Blanco death: CCTV suggests he was dropped from the balcony

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You remember how Pete Doherty told the NME that the police had CCTV evidence which showed Mark Blanco fell "unassisted" from the ...

Gordon in the morning: Nipslip bullshit

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Something especially awful this morning, as Gordon runs a picture of Rita Ora. Nothing strange in that, except... look how he describes it: ...
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Shelagh McDonald: You can safely call this a comeback

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The Herald has a a great story this morning about a singer who vanished from view so completely, people assumed she was dead: Only in 2005...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Less Campesinos

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Ellen Waddell has left Los Campesinos! .

Bookmarks: Pete Doherty

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Peter Bradshaw has gone to see Pete Doherty's Confession Of A Child Of The Century for The Guardian. You need to read the whole thing, ...

Grammys 2013: Outrage as Grammys impose vague quality threshold

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You know what almost nobody thought as they scrolled through the Grammy nominations list? "That's odd, there's no Justin Bieber...

Gordon in the morning: Brave words from Chris Maloney

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Apparently they're doing The X Factor this year, and possible winner Chris Maloney is being defiant this morning: Defiant Chris — dubb...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Spotify wants to help you discover music, just like everyone else

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Spotify has announced new features designed to help people "discover" music, because that's apparently something people have ...
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Jazzobit: Dave Brubeck

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There were a lot of obituaries of Dave Brubeck yesterday, with people struggling to explain how he managed to make jazz a mass market entert...

Grammys 2013: The blokiest Grammys in years

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The presence of Mumford And Sons - six nominations - on the list was always going to add a beardy, blokey musk to the list of Grammy nominat...
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Gordon in the morning: One's kid by our kid

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Could there be an "angle" on the pregnancy of Mrs Cambridge that has been left untouched in the slew of non-stories over the last ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Michael Buble: Me And My Spoon

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Really? Does the world really need a Michael Buble/Reese Witherspoon duet ? "By all accounts it would be true," he said of workin...

Everything she does is written in her diary

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Now that Elizabeth Price has won the Turner Prize , Talulah Gosh are all over the place this morning. There's an unintentionally hilar...

Gordon in the morning: Tulisa flops

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For the second day running, Gordon is enjoying the slow sales generated by the Tulisa album : LANDING a guest performer spot on The X Facto...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Venuewatch: Hare And Hounds

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Worrying news from Birmingham, where a flat has been proposed for a building adjacent to the Hare and Hounds . As we've seen before, t...

Gordon in the morning: Lady Boss demoted

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Gordon is trying to not look too thrilled at early indications that Tulisa's album isn't selling well : THE early signs aren’t good...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Chart music might be dead

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Olly Murs currently has the number one album and the number one single in the UK charts. Think about that for a second.

UK ISPs blocking licenced material

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Have you come across The Promo Bay yet? It's a spin-off from The Pirate Bay activities, where artists across a range of endeavours submi...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

All the glitters is not platinum

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This happened a week or so ago, but I think it bears retelling. Chris Gentry, who was once in Menswear, bought a platinum disc online, and...

This week just gone

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To "celebrate" the arrival of version 11, the most-read stories about iTunes in No Rock history: 1. AC/DC remain off iTunes 2. ...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Bookmarks: The Farm

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Liverpool's SevenStreets fears for the poor receptionist at the Maritime Museum, forced to listen to The Farm's Altogether Now on a...
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