No Rock And Roll Fun

Don't you hate those people who take some sort of pride in their distance from the modern world? Like hugely-specific unabombers who dra...

As XFM continues its dwindling days while Capital preps Radio X, station stalwart Eddy Temple Morris has quit and taken his Remix show elsew...

Rico Rodriguez, who worked with The Specials and led Rico And The Rudies, has died . Born in Cuba in 1934, raised in Jamaica and settling ...

Emily Ratajkowski, who was one of the models roped in to Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines project, has been doing a bit of an "I don...

Now, it's possible that Miley Cyrus is going to play next year's Glastonbury . On the other hand, this rumour coming a couple of d...

The VMAs - the bit on the calendar when everyone remembers MTV still broadcast - happened yesterday, in a series of events in which pop musi...

Last night, the X Factor returned, with all the pomp that ITV could muster. Although, to be fair to ITV, when you're marketing somethi...

1. That last ever NME 2. RIP: Cilla Black 3. Left out of Compton 4. Tom Jones dropped from The Voice 5. Backing up your CD collection is...

You might have come across the story of the love note scrawled on a €20 note : Leech went on to explain that they eventually broke up and M...

MTV are still doing the VMAs, which is in itself a weird thing - MTV's target demographic must be puzzled that every so often the 'I...

A grim additional email from Popbitch this morning, which builds on yesterday's story that XFM was about to be rebranded Capital Rocks. ...

The news, of course, has rumbled through the day: One Direction have announced they're going to sort-of split, or at least go on hiatus,...

Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas has had to issue a statement asking visitors to not take photos of themselves fucking Nicki Minaj's waxwork...

When Taylor Swift, or similar, talks about feminism, it might not be your mother's feminism, or your elder sister's. But is that a p...

There's an odd little piece in the spitewrapper that is the Mail On Sunday this morning - it's a glorified puff piece for some sort ...

Did you know that Buckcherry market their own range of sex toys? I'm assuming their dildos, if they're anything like their music, wi...

On this day in No Rock history: 2014: Apparently doing the ice bucket challenge led to Lily Allen selling gig tickets 2013: Fran Healy wa...

Both Dr Dre and Apple have been forced to sort-of engage a bit with the allegations that Dre used to beat women up. Dre had been ignoring ...

Social media deciding to inflate 'someone being a bit queasy' into 'you are with the angles now XXXRIP' isn't anything n...

There's a raid on a house by police looking for child pornography. The house is owned by someone famous, but police go out of their way ...

What do you do when you see a hipster in your audience? (This question shouldn't be attempted by Mumford And Sons.) If you're in...

To offset the bad taste of Hollywood deciding to not let Dre beating a woman up spoil a good story, here's Kate Nash talking to Broadly:...

There's showbiz for you. One moment, you're a threat to the status quo, with the President worrying over your lyrics. The next, you...

The long-running iTunes music festival - an event which mostly exists so the music industry can be gently reminded who is in charge here - i...

The entirely pyrrhic move of making pop videos display age ratings (or, rather, some pop videos on a couple of platforms) has achieved whate...

Jazz Summers, manager and label owner, has died . There's a statement from his company, Big Life management : Jazz Summers, the legen...

On this day: Most read-pieces 2014: Jonathan Ross picks up swing shifts at Radio 2; Mail goes into meltdown 2013: One Direction fans fly ...

Apparently, before yesterday, this wasn't on YouTube: And if that seems unlikely, here's someone who should know saying it's a...

It's easy to forget when watching Miley Cyrus trudging through tropes that were probably best left alone just what a horrible childhood ...

Coming shortly from Nada Surf is an album which records their March 2014 Seattle gig. They're thrown us a bone in the shape of this trac...