No Rock And Roll Fun

There's been the sort of cull of Radio 1 presenters which, in the past, would have triggered a thousand 'whither pop radio' thin...

The great thing about the World Cup being in Brazil is the massive range of options this offers the BBC for choosing a theme tune. Who hav...

It's now a fixed point in the summer season; newspapers who dislike the BBC getting all overheated about how it takes people to do broad...

The July edition of Elle UK is dubbed a "special collector's edition": One for collectors of culturally insensitive artefacts...

Albany's Palace Theater has issued proceedings against Engelbert Humperdinck , claiming he failed to show for a show: Humperdinck was s...

Remember when Glastonbury was a lovely, earth-positive sort of place to be? That's obviously long since become a memory, but they clin...

Oh, here's the BPI, taking the European 'right to be forgotten' and using it as a platform to remind us about piracy again. And ...

There was a big interview with Jack White in Sunday's Observer , which found a man struggling to balance the weight of his self-created ...

Kudos to Staind's Aaron Lewis for taking time out of a festival set to berate molesters : n the middle of a performance of the track ...

Apparently Kylie has left Parlophone after Kiss Me Once struggled to sell more than 60,000 copies. Or, possibly, Parlophone has left Kyli...

Remember Jack White? Nice kid, interesting music. Haven't seen so much of him since he went off on that big journey he made. Where was i...

Bret Michaels has put a hold on his solo tour due to health issues . How bad are they? Guitarist Pete Evick reckons they're pretty bad, ...

Whoever booked the Jesus Christ Superstar revival with John Lydon as Herod, one of Incubus as Judas and a random N'Syncer as Pilate seem...

For a comparison with the Radio One playlist-by-social-media-stats approach , it's worth reading what happened when Saga magazine met Je...

How "journalism" works. Daily Star, first edition: It's disgusting! Harry posting pictures of his cock (albeit in pants) to...

It hasn't been a great twenty four hours for listening to the opinions of those with the initials JB. Joey Barton didn't exactly thr...

Poor Peter Andre. Once he bestrode the world like a giant. Now, he doesn't even quite run to an in-store appearance. Instead, he's r...

Neil Taylor, former NME writer, is doing a kickstarter to fund a history of the C86 scene . One that goes further than just saying "Pri...

There's something a little worrying about the report in The Observer which watches a Radio One playlist meeting . Can you spot it, I won...

Cher, eh? With that clear, unchanging image, you'd never confuse her with anyone else... (I know, I know, algorithms...)

There's a new, grim twist to the ill-fated Greg Allman movie . You'll recall that cameraperson Sarah Jones was killed in an accident...

You'd have hoped that juicing what's left of The Libertines' mystery for cash would have kept Pete Doherty busy enough for the t...

What's the equivalent of the fanzine/flexi combo which so delighted us in the late 1980s? Probably a fanzine with a download "attac...

It must be tricky, discovering that someone is going to project a film of your dead brother on stage and pretend that somehow he's ...

Allan Jones - launch editor of Uncut - is leaving the job . Yes, launch editor. Yes, it's been publishing now for 17 years. Jones...

Rita Ora has gone to Cannes, and wants to enjoy it : Rita Ora has been to Cannes before, but she can't tell you much about it because i...

Leaving aside all the other concerns about the "business" for just a moment, why would Larry Flynt even think of approaching Justi...

You can throw a lot of things at Brian May - and, periodically, I do - but you can't accuse him of not being prepared to put his money w...

I know, I know that the Mail being like a word-flavoured tapeworm extruding from a mangy asshole isn't exactly news, but it's always...

In the same way that the Proms are, officially, the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, might it not be fitting for the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs...