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Saturday, November 02, 2013

BPI, RIAA ignore licence terms on their website until it's pointed out to them

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Interesting: copyright farmers the RIAA and their remote-controlled UK equivalent the BPI have been caught using code on their websites whi...
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The 1975 have a pop at Borrell

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Hey, Matt Healy, we don't come down your factory stealing your work , do we? Asked by The Guardian whether he worries about success tur...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Fred Durst moves on to second TV series

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There's no denying that Fred Durst is a pretty hot property in television right now. Why, before CBS have even aired a single episode of...

Churches scoop Popjustice Prize

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If they're over in one part of London praising the "best" album of the year, that means elsewhere, Popjustice will be hosting ...

Mercury Music Prize 2013 hit by awkward name embarrassment

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There was an awkward moment during the live televising of last night's Mercury Music Prize , with a slip-up being made around the winner...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Grimes defends playing in Russia because Putin wasn't going to go see her anyway, or something

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With Russia an increasingly intolerant place to be bisexual, gay, lesbian or anything else non-Putin-approved, it was something of a surpris...

Jonas Brothers: They split

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The most striking thing about the Jonas Brothers split is the video of the Jonases: looking for all the world like junior chief executives, ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Katy Perry calls for pop stars to keep their clothes on

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Katy Perry, talking to NPR , is starting to wonder if we're not seeing too much of some people too often: And a lot of people see me as...

HMV launches plans to defeat iTunes; realises it needs iTunes to be part of the plans

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So, although it looked like it wouldn't make it through to offer confused elderly relatives a place to buy not quite the right CDs for t...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Lou Reed: A quick round-up

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The front page of USA Today this morning records the passing of Lou Reed: 'Underground' visionary dies at 71 The quote marks round ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Legendobit: Lou Reed

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It took me a while to warm to Lou Reed - probably because The Velvets were always spoken about in such hushed tones by the little-bit-older ...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Rolling Stone pretends to misunderstand that not all doctors are medical

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When Rolling Stone put an alleged terrorist on its front cover to illustrate a perfectly reasonable current affairs story, there was an outr...

Thom Yorke challenged over consistency

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Thom Yorke, as we all know, despises Spotify. Not quite enough to pull Radiohead music from the service, but certainly enough to keep his le...

Michael Jackson: the never-ending battle for his money goes on

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The latest person to pitch up to the Jackson estate, writ in hand, is Quincy 'you would have hoped that he was above this sort of thing...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Macca chats to Lennon

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Apparently Paul McCartney tries to talk to John Lennon when writing new songs . Which is more than he tried to do when John Lennon was alive...

Noveltyobit: Manolo Escobar

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Manolo Escobar - whose death has been announced - probably deserves to be known as something more than just the bloke who did Y Viva Espana...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Who over

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I know it's an era ending, but it's rather strange to see the NME describe The Who announcing that they'll wind up after their 5...

Lights Over Paris to become bloke over in B-wing

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So, Michael Jackson is making cash by simply being dead. That wasn't an option for Robb "TaLLLLL" University, from the band Li...

Michael Jackson: Doing very nicely, thank you

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Not only is the dead Michael Jackson making more money than any other dead celebrity, but he's making more cash than any living pop star...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

Twittergem: Capsule review

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WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. WOW. Black Sabbath's new stuff ...

Collateral damage

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Presumably because it would incompatible to edit The Scottish Sun and present a show on XFM, Gordon Smart is ending his radio programme. ...

This week just gone

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To mark the launch of his book, here's the most popular Morrissey stories. Or at least the ones that his name appears in the headline. J...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Pink finds a rule allowing for food to be eaten

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Pink's normally quite close to a real person, which makes stories like this disappointing : Pink gorged on cheesecake and chicken wings...

NME oversells products

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What's this, NME? Dinosaur Jr have launched their own clothing line. Really? J Mascis has been up all night fretting over hemlength, ha...

Countryobit: Marc Trovillion

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Marc Trovillion, once bassist for Lambchop, has died . There's a statement from the band: As he often liked to say, Marc was a charte...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Noel Gallagher has some views

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GQ has decided that Noel Gallagher is its Icon Of The Year . No, I checked, it's definitely from this year. It's unclear what Noel...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

There is a title that should never come out: Morrissey - The Autobiography

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You spoke in silhouette (but they couldn't name you). Much excitement today, with the release of the Morrissey autobiography. It's...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The cycle of life in action

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John Merrick was a sensation; he wasn't like other men. Michael Jackson was a sensation; he wasn't like other men. Lady GaGa was...

French and Saunders machine-gun Lulu to death

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Maybe not to death. Who knew that the Cheltenham Literature Festival's big reveal this year would be that French and Saunders once sho...

Twittergem: Neko Case

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@NekoCase & @NikkiSixx What are you trying to tell me? pic.twitter.com/7Tv8aMsMgi — Alexander Lindbäck (@AlexLindback) October 16, 201...
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