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Saturday, May 03, 2014

Eurovision 2014: Brotherhood of Man choose Selsey over Copenhagen

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As part of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, there's some sort of massive revival event taking place in Copenhagen on the night o...

Tony Hadley abandons Coffee Club for brewer's arms

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Tony Hadley's invented a whole new beer, although the photo from the Gazette & Herald makes it look like he's been made to do it...

Everywhere PR is in chains

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This is Chains, who are pretty good (it's Ben out of Ben and Jason, and Kate who once supported James Blunt but don't hold that agai...

Lee Ryan: The man who pisses in the cells

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Lee Ryan, trying to find some sort of reason for driving while drunk, refusing to give a sample, swearing at police and pissing in a cell , ...
Friday, May 02, 2014

Bloom fades

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Self-proclaimed niche-streaming service, Bloom FM, has closed after their backer, TNT, suddenly yanked funding . The service is looking fo...

The return of Alanis

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Oh, sure, The Trip To Italy might have helped Alanis' Jagged Little Pill back into the album chart . But let's not overlook the ot...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

MTV launches stalker-friendly app

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It's not an actual stalker app, of course. It purports to show your places where someone you know might be "so you can avoid them...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Heavy Metal Thunder

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Quite rightly, the identity of the child accused of the horrible murder at a Leeds school yesterday isn't being made public. Not that th...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Damon Albarn not quite the troll he's been presented as

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It sounds like a fairly obvious attempt at annoying former Blur fans when seen through the headline prism : Even the BBC were pushing this ...

This week just gone

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Five years ago today, these were the popular stories: 1. The NME's confused Beth Ditto naked cover 2. MP3 download: Eric's Trip ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Shall we check in with Terry Christian?

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I wonder what's on the mind of Word presenter, music writer and Dj Terry Christian these days. Hey, he might be on Twitter. Let's ...
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Spotify really hate being compared with iTunes; compare selves with iTunes

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You know what really upsets Spotify's head of label relations in Europe, Kevin Brown? It's when people compare his lovely service wi...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Avril Lavigne has no mouth; she cannot scream

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Surely the worst things about Avril Lavigne's dubious Japanese-themed video is that: 1. She's plodding about five years behind Gw...
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That's enough - band

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Not that it's ever stopped them before, but... : AEROSMITH's JOEY KRAMER Says 'There Is Almost No Reason' For Band To Make ...

Stephen Pearcy: Rat leaves sinking RATT

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All is not happy in the RATT camp, and founder member Stephen Pearcy has had enough : "After 30 years creating the band RATT and losin...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Revelation: Michael Jackson wasn't like other people; front pages held

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Besides the heartbreaking detail in the ABC interview with Michael Jackson's bodyguards , the most notable thing is that it was three bo...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Apparently Bieber has some sort of hold over Obama, believes CNN

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Remember CNN? It's still going, apparently, but doesn't appear to be doing news any more. Right now, it's suggesting that Barack...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Samsung hope for great things from Milk; mostly milk money

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Samsung have created a Pandora-like app for users in America, which has managed a bit over a third of a million downloads since launch last...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

The Boxing Day to RSD's Christmas

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What day follows Record Store Day, year-in, year-out? Ah, yes, 'rushing to lob everything onto eBay to sell for a healthy profit day...

This week just gone

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The most-read stuff from this year, so far: 1. Liveblog: Brits 2014 2. Armenia enters transphobic contestant into Eurovision 3. Alfie Bo...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Record Store Day: The downside

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It's Record Store Day. Hoooooorah! Or maybe not hooooorah. Maybe it's only half a cheer. Phil Hebblethwaite at The Quietus has do...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Young people "buying so many cassettes they're evolving fingers shaped like pencils to tighten the spools', BBC believe

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Hey, you know what? Kids today! They're buying cassettes like they're coming back into fashion. That's what the BBC say, anywa...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Vinyl isn't all that

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Who doesn't have a vinyl fetish? It's so shiny, isn't it? And handily wipe-clean, too. But there's another a kind of vinyl...

Jermain Jackman isn't even the new David Sneddon

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To think we used to enjoy a good snurkle at how quickly Fame Academy winners would fade from view - although they might never have turned th...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Paolo Nutini doesn't understand mental health issues

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There's something interesting about the way Paolo Nutini seems annoyed that people who pay money to hear him play his songs get upset wh...

NME caught in debt-fuelled deal

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As part of the splitting up of Time Warner into two smaller media companies, the question of who gets to keep IPC Media (and, thus, the NME)...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

What the pop papers said: Bernard Butler

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We find ourselves at the end of a slightly underwhelming BBC-mandated 20th Anniversary of Britpop (marking the point when Johnny from Menswe...

This week just gone

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The most-read things this week, from, like, whenever: 1. Aston Merrygold's merry prank backfires 2. Of course sexuality is fluid, but...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Singersongwriterobit: Jesse Winchester

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Jesse Winchester, Memphis born singer-songwriter, has died . Winchester crossed the border to dodge the draft, and lived 35 years in Canad...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Apple worried, reckons Billboard

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It turns out that the only people in the world who are surprised by the weak start for iTunes Radio are people at Apple who, according to Bi...
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