No Rock And Roll Fun

In a second slice of regional press/80s nostalgia for the morning, the South Wales Echo has been making Cerys Matthews relive the trauma of ...

Superb work from the Newcastle Chronicle website , which has dug into its archives for the story of the time Andy Taylor opened a wine bar c...

The line-up for Glastonbury now has a scary TBA in the Friday night headline slot , with the Foo Fighters pulling out as Dave Grohl's le...

It's not unusual for a presidential candidate to get into difficulties with their musical soundtracks - mostly for using songs without p...

Bono has taken time off from 'rationalising' his tax affairs to go and tell Canada how to spend their taxes . But let's not fo...

Smashmouth's dwindling career has reached the point where they're now playing The Taste Of Fort Collins, a college town food-fest. ...

Apparently there's a "Pitchfork era", of which Slowdive's Souvlaki is part. (Actually, Souvlaki predated Pitchfork by a ye...

It's true, but probably both more true and less than it seems : Amy Winehouse's pop star goddaughter Dionne Bromfield says she owes...

Helly Luv! She's taken Isis. She's done what? Oh, alright, she's taken YouTube.

While we're talking about beautiful things on the iPlayer, the entire run (four episodes) of All Shook Up is currently available (again,...

Originally tucked away behind BBC Red Button - and now on iPlayer, but only until 7th July 2015, Simon Scott out the Charlottes and Slowdive...

The most-read stories in the first half of the year (minus two weeks, but you know we're close enough): 1. Liveblog: Brits 2. Liveblo...

So, that reunion of TFI Friday last night was a reminder of why I never watched it first time round: it's a programme that looks like ev...

Scooter Braun has a thankless task; trying to take bipedial oxygen squanderer Justin Bieber and make him into an artist who people may even ...

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now for Bianca Guthrie. She has a tormented life. And it is all Rhianna's fault : A girl, n...

You might have thought that Ed Sheeran was a little dull. You might now want to recalibrate how dull he is after he paid a surprise visit...

First song. Falls off stage. Breaks leg. In a cast. PLAYS ON. Dave fell off the stage during the very first song and broke his leg. He'...

From the "the innocent have nothing to fear" files of our police state: Download Festival goers are all going to have their faces ...

Without even going near the High Court endorsed viewpoint that Morrissey Is Not A Racist Nor Ever Shall Be Called Such, it's clear Mozze...

You know who's not excited about streaming music? Shirley Manson , tha's who: "Now you get music for free. If people understoo...

This week's cover band is Wolf Alice. Last week's cover band was Florence. That's two female-fronted acts in two weeks. Th...

Drowned In Sound meets Pins . Along with the excellent album, pronunciation is on the agenda: DiS: You've had quite a lot of high-profi...

Alan Diaz, the rapper Pumpkinhead, has died, according to reports from AllHipHop . A member of both Brooklyn AC and The Plague, and (like ...

It's a bit hard to sum up Lewis Chin, who has died , in a word. Or two. Or even a handful. SFGate has a go: He was deeply involved in...

NPR ran an online quiz to see if people could really tell the difference between high quality digital music files and lower quality ones. Th...

"Oh come on, you guys. Even though it's about a million years since we bought Dre's ugly headphone company to get their streami...

After doing her usual thing in Morocco, Jennifer Lopez could be thrown in prison [horrible autoplay video site]: Lopez faces a lawsuit bec...

Ah, Ten Walls. After people got upset with your queerbashy Facebook post , you issued one of those not-really-apologies: ‘I want to apologi...

TFI Friday is back for what is, effectively, its reunion gig this week. But will it be good TFI Friday, where you'd get a decent band an...

1. Liveblog: Eurovision 2. Grooveshark sinks 3. RIP: BB King 4. Stapp misses court date 5. Wonder what Gareth Gates is up to these days?...