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Saturday, February 01, 2014

Skinny Puppy demand their fee

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Having discovered that their music was being used in Guantanamo as part of - remind me, what's the current sanitised phrase for 'tor...

A second shot at obscurity

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Revenge is a dish best served well past its sell-by date, apparently : A TALENTED singer, who was once dropped from a hit girlband by Louis...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

The Artist Formerly Known As A Litigious Gadfly

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Prince had launched a lawsuit demanding millions in damages from defendants, known and unknown, who he believed had been helping distribute ...

MTV notices women at gigs, senses a trend

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That MTV has a section on its website called Guy Code is bad enough. That it runs stuff like this ...: ... is unbelievable. Why Are There ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Lorde: Telegraph readers share their views

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After Helmer and the Mail, let's go for the trifecta and see what Telegraph readers make of Lorde's views on the music industry . ...

Ellie Goulding wears an outfit

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Ellie Goulding played a gig in Cologne earlier in the week. Here's a photo of her doing just that: How would you describe that outfit? ...

Twittergem: Justin Bieber

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Roger Helmer, UKIP MEP, has taken a break from pointing out places where it's snowing and saying 'ha! What happened to global warmin...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

This was always going to happen

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You knew it would happen sooner or later. It doesn't make it any easier. Madonna turns up, tries desperately to elbow her way into Mile...

Kym Marsh to return to music with the help of... hang on, is this a typo?

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Is Kym Marsh really planning to relaunch her music career? (If you can call being in Hear'Say a music career in the first place?) Give...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Ministry hits trouble

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What are your plans for February? Al Jourgensen is spending his in rehab : My sobriety will not, and I repeat, not knock off my sarcasm. If...

Folkobit: Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger, American legend and folk singer, has died . The New York Times obituary explains how he was a one-man timeline of the America...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Listen with No Rock: Chvrches

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You'll have seen this elsewhere on the internet, but anyway, you'll be able to enjoy it again, yes? Chvrches cover Bauhaus: It...

Grammys 2014: Daft Punk get lucky

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Emmylou Harris, Black Sabbath, Herb Alpert, Led Zeppelin. Nothing says "it's the 1970s" like the 2014 Grammy awards. Even Paul...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Let's hope Gary Barlow doesn't turn up and spoil Robbie Williams Day

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You know how small towns in America get so excited when something vaguely famous happens that they lose their heads and the mayor declares i...

Twittergem: Eminem

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Can I have your attention, please? Are you Eminem? Let's find out... pic.twitter.com/9NzyH2xeRQ — MmmmDowling (@MarionDowling) Januar...

This week just gone

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What were the most popular things on No Rock this day last year? 1. Watch: Kimberley Walsh's slightly dodgy National TV Awards perform...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Courtney Love cleared in the case nobody was calling Twibel

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There's a lot of guff being wafted around the decision in the libel action bought against Courtney Love by her former attorney Rhonda Ho...

Justin Bieber proclaims... something

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There might be better way to proclaim your innocence : "What more can they say," wrote the recently troubled pop star along with ...

Bookmarks: Backstreet Boys

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What's the appeal of the Backstreet Boy cruises? Torie Bosch - who once ran a BSB fanfic site - went on to find out. Turns out, when you...

Good reasons for not going to the Grammys

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Regina Spektor is up for her first Grammy this weekend. Is she going to go? No. This isn't a principled stand against the idea of ju...
Friday, January 24, 2014

CNN thinks you might be having difficult conversations this weekend

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Good old CNN. It's trying to help you. More "trying" than "help" , though: "Mummy... can I ask you something?...

Last FM tries something else, hopes it doesn't smell desperate

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Last FM hasn't exactly been thriving in the last couple of years, what with Spotify basically doing what it did, but much better. (Becau...

Lance Bass tells us he is unsurprised at Bieber's arrest

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Lance Bass saw it coming, you know. He knew there was trouble ahead for Bieber. He'd even shared his worries with dozens of listeners to...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Fa loves Papa Don't Preach: Madonna's dolphin house only a glint in an architect's eye

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It would have been easy to believe that Madonna might own a house in Dubai, one which had dolphins in a tank swimming by the living room. ...

Listen with No Rock: Slum Of Legs

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An email arrives, suggesting I might want to listen to a thing. That happens a lot, but the thing is a cassette/digital album from Brighton....
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Vivian Girls to play two more shows, stop

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Oh, bugger, no : Brooklyn, New York, March 2007: we started making music together and became what we know as Vivian Girls. It's been a ...

Bookmarks: Kathleen Hanna

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You might have enjoyed Everett True's interview with Kathleen Hanna in the Guardian last week ; today he's posted the original trans...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Beats gets going

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Overpriced headphone manufacturer Beats has taken a step closer to launching its streaming music service , with an app going live in the App...

Communists finally accept Lady GaGa

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If you needed more evidence that Lady GaGa's early edge has long since been lost, she's being allowed back into China . CNN reports:...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Rockobit: Fergie Frederiksen

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Fergie Frederiksen, singer with a number of bands, has died . His greatest claim to fame was his period as singer with Toto - during the I...
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