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The Courteeners are planning a quiet year next year, apparently. They're going on hiatus : Speaking to Tim Cocker on the XFM Manchester...

The Vaccines are working on a new album. Possibly. It seems to have 'cheque's in the post' status : Young explained to XFM that...

'Releasing records without prior announcement' is the new 'putting a record onto the torrents, pretending it's leaked, makin...

Swervedriver came back last year; this year, though, they're releasing music for the first time in a decade and a half. That would be ...

Of course you don't. Still, since we've brought it up, she's keeping herself busy as a latter-day Jimmy Savile. Not like th...

To be fair, the headline does make Kim Wilde sound a bit more detached than the story does : Singer Wilde sighted UFO after Michael Jackson...

The other night, NBC did a three-hour live production of the Sound Of Music. It was something of an oddity for NBC in lots of ways - a three...

You know, the hardest thing for the Obama White House - besides the questions about the way their drones keep raining death down on the head...

Following Blackfish - the movie which said the things a lot of people have been saying about Seaworld for years - bands are starting to pull...

The most-read stuff from across the site in the last month: 1. With two tweets, Charlotte Church makes Louise Mensch crumble 2. KT Tunsta...

The BBC - presumably sensing it was sailing towards a rerun of the U2 at the BBC disaster - has suddenly got cold feet over Gary Barlow Day...

Simon Amstell was on Radio One yesterday morning, and made a joke at the network's expense: Amstell said: "What is going on? We...

From Charlotte Church last night, following the news of the death of Nelson Mandela, came a perfect retweet followed by a perfect tweet: Py...

Warpaint are sharing out a free track from the new album. And it's a Biggy. As in that's what it's called, and also how large it...

With that much-promised Bros reunion still very much an unwanted puppy left in the window of a pet shop on Christmas Eve, Matt Goss is tryin...

Brilliant news, everybody: Spotify are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into rights' holders pockets : According to Spotify, it...

Junior Murvin, the reggae singer whose Police And Thieves, about Jamaican turf wars, became a soundtrack when the policing at the 1976 Notti...

And while we're going through the pile marked "people saying stupid things about homosexuality", it would be wrong to let any ...

So how would ITV square inviting unacceptable rapper James Arthur onto the channel after sacking unacceptable rapper Chris Fountain? By ge...

Soukous pioneer Tabu Ley Rochereau has died . During the period of Mobutu Sese Seko regime, Tabu Ley spent years living in exile - includi...

This piece from ContactMusic reeks of a press team rushing a story out to avoid the risk of someone else getting there first: Miley Cyrus ...

The most-read November stories: 1. Ian Watkins changes his plea to guilty 2. James Arthur returns to Twitter to defend his homophobic ass...

There's trouble at the Hydro, the music venue spin-off of the SECC in Glasgow. A few weeks after it opened with a Rod Stewart gig, the m...

I suppose, pragmatically, there's not a person in the country who would want to buy a Lostprophets record in public now, and in that sen...

What is it with bassists called Kim and the Pixies? They've just lost the second one in a year . Kim Shattuck posted this to Facebook:...

It's about other people : Lawson want Rita Ora to be in their next video but are afraid of annoying her boyfriend Calvin Harris. Oh, La...

Here's a surprise: homophobic tosser James Arthur is due to appear on The X Factor this Sunday , and ITV are okay with that: A spokespe...

I'm sure all our thoughts and prayers are with Dappy, who cannot ride a horse : Dappy's representative, Terry Mills, says, “I can c...

There's no shortage of poorly-chosen music-related advertising and marketing campaigns, but the people attempting to turn Ebril into a t...