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At some point while I was flying home, Kate Bush was given a CBE . Which means she now outranks Annie Lennox, a mere OBE. It's usual w...

Epic let Death Grips go after the band gave away their record. Pitbull believes we'll have to wait for him to die before we can appreci...

The New Statesman asked why the NME has so many dead people on its cover. Getty have come up with a way of turning Soundcloud into money ...

Political Scrapbook suddenly remembered Gary Barlow and Dave "Dave" Cameron's school competition , but wasn't sure if they...

There's some cheerful news for HMV today, as the Telegraph has some words of encouragement about the chain's future: It is underst...

Marilyn Manson drew swears on his face to "stop" the paparazzi photographing him. Madonna fell out with Elton John for some reas...

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. But what is the identity of the "indie record", exactly? A Careless Man's Careless Da...

Part of my formative years, Rounder Records in Brighton announced it was closing. In our only pie chart of the year, we illustrated the C...

Which organisation made the greatest contribution to music this year? Delta Airlines, who lost Ed Sheeran's guitars . In a bid to try ...

Mike Scaccia, founder member of Rigor Mortis, has died after collapsing on stage . Scaccia was playing with Ministry - who he joined in 19...

Eurovision ! Go Hump! Oh... Hump. Beyonce was recognised for her, erm, journalism while Tulisa called winning FHM's sexiest woman ...

Exciting news from the NME : The Beatles, Mick Jagger and Robbie Williams are among the names being considered to appear on the new £10 ban...

YouTube have been tidying up view figures , removing dubious counts. Who has been especially hit by this purge o'views? Why, record ...

Excitingly, the bloke who claimed George Michael's street was haunted by a ghost vampire turned up in the comments to swear his story w...

Getting Englebert Humperdinck to represent the UK at Eurovision ? What could possibly go wrong? You'd have thought Liverpudlians, of a...

"It were so much better under Thatcher" sighed Noel Gallagher, who then spent much of the month issuing explanations from his cas...

Deezer is keen to take on Spotify, and figures that giving stuff away is the way to go : "Our ad-supported service is a necessary trig...

David Bowie turned 65 . Briefly, the So Solid Crew were gifted new members . Paris Hilton relaunched her music career - this time, she...

Give Neil Young credit, he's happy to push on with his fundamentally flawed Pono adventure . He's registered some trademarks . Rol...

The Pirate Party UK has closed its proxy access to The Pirate Bay , rather than face a ruinous battle with the major labels. The decision ...

Have you seen those black feather Christmas trees? It's like the Winterval is finally opening up to Goths. And the Goths are opening up ...

Remember the Fred Durst sitcom? Of course not, it never got made because it was a terrible idea. But simply being a terrible idea isn't ...

I'm not entirely a fan of getting excited simply because a band has told us what the name of a forthcoming album might be, or shown us t...

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, ...

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...

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

You know what George Osborne hates? Besides kittens, love, fun, poor people, tax for rich people, biscuits, people mentioning that whole thi...

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 ...

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

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