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Gerry Goffin has died . What a songbook. Although not always an uncontroversial songbook. Talking about He Hit Me And It Felt Like A K...

There was a grim end to last night's Nas, Schoolboy Q and Flying Lotus at Red Rocks: There was a triple shooting which - depending on w...

As part of the preview to the Glastonbury festival (or rather its preview of its preview), this week's NME asks a ginger question about ...

Here's a surprise: Tony Orlando, out of Dawn, has pushed his way into the story of the kidnapped Israeli teenagers . It's a little...

Want to learn some German with Shirley Manson? And some bass with Dave from Widespread Panic? Of course you do. Let's go to Pancake Mo...

So here's the new Arctic Monkeys video: Clearly, there's a tongue in a cheek here, right? Mr Discopop points out that some peopl...

There's always room for more music awards shows, right? Because there's an unlimited pool of talent just waiting to do the 'and ...

Regardless of the other rights and wrongs, threatening to block certain labels' videos on YouTube unless the label does a deal over a se...

You know it's going to be bad when a website tells you there are Six Things You Need To Know about a Bruno Mars gig . Six things? You on...

It's easy to snurkle at the activities of pop stars, so for a change here's someone doing something nice. Scott Robinson out of 5i...

Justin Bieber - despite having turned out to be awkwardly racist - remains popular in Canada, where the Much Music awards gave him some sort...

Kanye West's attempts to pull off being a serious artist while working part-time in a circus have failed, cold hard reality reported thi...

Smart meters are pretty controversial. Or, at least, they should be. Sure, there's a bunch of easily-dismissed EMF radiation panic about...

It's taken the best part of forty years, but The Ramones' debut, Ramones, has finally gone gold in America . The differential in s...

A short while back, Lily Allen was telling people that she could have been in Game Of Thrones but they'd tried to cast her in an incesty...

The most-read things so far this year: 1. Liveblog: Brits 2. Armenia try a homophobic entrant for Eurovision 3. Simon Bates dropped by S...

Traditionally, the international standard for heartlessness was 'the relative who nips upstairs at the wake to try on the deceased's...

James Arthur has been dumped by Syco , who suddenly realised that there was no role for a record label in running a career which seems to co...

Dana International, who won Eurovision a while ago (don't look up when, you'll only feel old) has created something of a storm in Is...

We live in a strange age, where people have many different careers, but I think I'm right in saying that Cerys Matthews must be the firs...

Billy Bragg - in common with (checking list) Most People Ever - doesn't have much time for Kasabian. He took time out of his busy schedu...

Interesting: I actually really like Adrian Chiles… said no one… ever. I’d rather listen to Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds than listen ...

Kerrang! did its awards yesterday - so we finally can acknowledge that Gerard Way is the best at Twitter (within the tolerances of Kerrang! ...

The New York Times reckons that Amazon might quietly launch a music streaming service today. That they'd pick World Cup Of Soccer day...

Jade Tree records - Milemarker, Girls Against Boys, Denali and many others - has been not-quite-shuttered for the last few years. It was in ...

But why, Kristeen, why would you have poisoned Morrissey with a headcold ? Why would you do such a thing? Why? Oh... the devil made you do...

Inevitably, then, the Morrissey US tour has been cancelled . It's now thirty-four years since Morrissey completed anything (on that oc...

It was never going to happen that Mozzer made it through a tour unscathed, was it? He's just rescheduled two dates on medical advice ; l...

There's an interesting detail in the tour Kasabian give to the BBC of their dreadful new album: In that spirit, the album is called 48...

We've not only lost a great comedian and actor with the death of Rik Mayall ; he's a loss to music, as well. Lest we forget, he wa...