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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Bing throws 'pirates' off its search engine

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Bing has removed "several hundred thousand" search results from its index , believing them to be links to unlicenced content. A ...

Johnny Marr firm on Smiths reunion

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Johnny Marr sighs, and stresses again: No Smiths Reunion : If people get genuinely upset and frustrated that four men that last played toge...
Friday, August 09, 2013

Lady GaGa apparently wants to tell you how to listen

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Artists who understand their audience maximise their recordings to fit the technology that audience will use. So, the best artists of the ...

Countryobit: Jack Clement

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Jack Clement - known as "Cowboy" - has died . Clement's nickname came from a sketch he was in on the radio and not authentic...

Gordon in the morning: Ken's waiting for the call

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Tucked away behind the solid paywall of The Sun this morning comes the news that Matt 'Not Luke' Goss is dropping heavy hints that, ...
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Thursday, August 08, 2013

Fireman calls for Bauer stations to be taken off their hands

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Bruce Fireman - described for these purposes as "media banker and analyst" - has demanded that Bauer be refused permission to take...

These are Paul McCartney's pants, I swear

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A jazz musician is trying to flog off what he reckons are Paul McCartney's old leather trousers . Mike Hoggard claims Brian Epstein ga...

DMC: It was better in the past, you know

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You know when Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels reckons music was at its best? Yes, funnily enough, it was when Run DMC were at their height : ...

Spotify CEO senses stage three is near

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Talking to the Wall Street Journal, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is quite chipper. Music Ally has read the full interview : “I think a lot of peop...

Gordon in the morning: A lucky break

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Peeking across the Sun's mighty paywall this morning, you could be spending your cash reading about how a former Spice Girl is delighted...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Kelly Rowland appears to believe that God is responsible for Verizon infrastructure

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You're at sea. You have a small bit of trouble. Your phone is able to get a signal and you can call for help. That, most people would ...

Embed and breakfast man: Capital Children's Choir

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This is excellent. The Capital Children's Choir covering Crystal Castles with only mouths to work with.

Gordon in the morning: One of JLS makes a playlist

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Behind The Sun's paywall this morning, your cold hard cash will buy a chance to read a story about Marvin out of JLS plotting a dance al...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

New York sells off vinyl

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The New York Public Library is selling surplus vinyl records - things it has been given, but already has a decent copy of. It frees up space...

"This also available in licenced version" plan

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There's something sweet about Comcast's plans to pop up a message when it sees someone downloading an unlicenced track: As sources...

Robin Thicke's dealer sees him coming

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You know when the police seize drugs and claim they're worth squillions , and everyone stares at the story, and does the maths, and wond...

Gordon in the morning: Naming rights

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Come with us for a quick peek over the Sun's paywall, to see what fresh meat Gordon is laying out to tempt you in the new marketplace. ...
Monday, August 05, 2013

Billy Bragg's local struggling London lad actually scion of Nottingham pie dynasty

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Turns out that when Billy Bragg was patiently explaining how those mean Undercroft skateboarders were stopping local people from starting th...

How Altered Images and Spandau Ballet made the new Doctor Who

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Peter Capaldi once supported Spandau Ballet on tour - he was a stand-up; they were desperate to avoid giving the impression they were part o...

Furore-leafed Clovers

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Harold Winley - who was a member of The Clovers when they did Love Potion Number 9 - is trying to win the right to perform under the band na...

It's PJP v DWP

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PJ Proby was, you might recall, cleared of benefit fraud last year. He's been wondering aloud if the DWP didn't waste a lot of time ...
Sunday, August 04, 2013

Teignbridge District Council give up, plan to get Muse to do job

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There's a germ of an idea lurking in Teignbridge councillor Jeremy Christophers' plan to ask Muse to run the district for a day . Un...

This week just gone

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On the first of August, The Sun disappeared behind a paywall. It's not a hugely expensive paywall - it's about the cost of bribing a...
Saturday, August 03, 2013

Rock sick list: Lemmy

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Lemmy's not been having a great time of it recently, and it doesn't sound like his health has turned a corner: Motorhead cut short a...

Bookmarks: Wham!

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It might be slightly alarming to realise that Club Tropicana is now thirty years old, but at least it's given The Quietus an excuse for...

Billy Bragg: Won't someone think of the children? The other children?

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With skateboarders fighting hard to keep the space under the Southbank Centre that they've made their own - turned from a concrete void ...

Johnny Borrell: When you give life lemons, someone will make lemonade

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You know how you can tell when your record sales are really bad? It's when your label stops trying to talk up your record, and joins in ...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Life imitates Roy Of The Rovers

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Oh, how we laughed when Melchester Rovers signed two of Spandau Ballet. As if a real football team would waste its time signing pop stars, e...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Judge Jules takes step closer to being actual judge

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Judge Jules - perhaps irked by the constant 'he's not a real judge' gags - has joined a legal firm as a trainee lawyer . The Dru...

Gordon in the morning: Corden announces availability

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A second dip into the Sun this morning, as Gordon Smart reveals that James Corden is hoping to extend a Mugabe-like grip on the Brit Awards ...
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