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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

What now for McBusted?

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Ah, the sweet joy of BBC News innocently exploring how Charlie Simpson decided to rejoin Busted without once including the phrase "it ...

An old friend reappears

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Ah, it's been a while since we've sighted someone saying "hey, why does everyone think Morrissey's glum, he's actually ...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Nick McCabe is literally a NIMBY

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Nick McCabe, out of Verve and The Verve, has recently moved to Shropshire. He's not entirely happy, though, as builders are trying to sm...

Busta Rhymes admits his crimes

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Busta Rhymes has pleaded guilty to the most dull crime in the world, that of throwing a protein drink at a gym employee who wouldn't let...

Ozzy Osbourne apologises for pissing on the Alamo

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Perhaps the most creative thing Ozzy has ever done in his career advertising butter substitutes and staggering around a house in perpetual c...

SXSW killer gets life

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A jury has found Rashad Owens guilty of capital murder . Owens drove his car into crowds at last year's SXSW, killing four and injurin...

There's a new Coldplay album, everyone

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At first, I assumed this from the BBC website was an early review of A Head Full Of Dreams: - but then I realised that there's going to...

Punkobit: Brandon Carlisle

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Brandon Carlisle, drummer with Teenage Bottlerocket, has died . His twin and co-Bottlerocket Ray Carlisle announced on Facebook: With a h...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Downloadable:Ash

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The lovely Ash boys are currently offering one of those tracks-for-emails deals whereby you drop off an email, and they give you a small aco...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Stone Roses drag out new announcement like they dragged out that second album

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Mysterious (not that mysterious) posters have appeared around Manchester, causing Stone Roses fans to forget how bad Ian Brown's voice i...
Sunday, November 01, 2015

Touting is okay if you're a business, right?

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The business of "secondary ticketing" - which might look like touting to you or I, except it's done by men in suits sitting in...
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This week just gone

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The most-read October things: 1. The Mercury Prize shortlist 2. Ugly Kid Joe have returned 3. What the pop papers say: NME bigs Moyles ...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Justin Bieber mops, then mopes

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Terrible scenes from Oslo, where a Justin Bieber gig ends early after, um, fans wouldn't let him mop up some water : Justin Bieber left...
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Ed Sheeran 2.0

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To be honest, if he can work out how not to fall over, George Stephanopoulos (who used to be Big Bird's imaginary friend in Sesame Stree...

Protecting the cash cows

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Lest we forget that most large-scale music enterprises are fundamentally no different from other large businesses, The Guardian explores the...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

The iPod turns 14

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14 years ago Steve Jobs announced the iPod, and this is how people reacted: https://t.co/uPimSbiC6j (via reddit) pic.twitter.com/8WuBYps6M...

This week just gone

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What were you looking for? Some search terms found in our logs: Amy Winehouse bondage "carla bruni is being mocked mercilessly acros...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Joe Elliott doesn't like streaming services

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Streaming services, amirite? They're like the work of a demon. A minor demon, perhaps, but a demon nevertheless. Tell us why, Joe : ...

Rob Halford loves a guy in a uniform

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Rob Halford just did an interview with OC Weekly where they asked him, effectively, why he fancied squaddies. Like the Prime Minister at PM...

Oh, you're back: Ugly Kid Joe

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The trouble with the constant now is the sudden reunions of bands which you'd assumed understood that dying of shame was meant to be a o...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Pandora pony up for pre-72 recordings

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Before 1972, recorded music in America wasn't "protected" by copyright. Some streaming services have been taking advantage of ...

Managerobit: Joe Moss

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Joe Moss, manager of Marion, has died . Alright, he managed The Smiths too. That might be more culturally significant. As recorded in Th...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Russell Simmons debit cards fall flat

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Russell Simmons' post Def Jam career has seen him running a debit card service for people who can't access ordinary banks, Rushcard....
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Gene Simmons doesn't hold with all this modern stuff

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Gene Simmons took time out from shouting at clouds to have a little rage at file sharing for killing rock. Let's hear him out, shall we?...

Queensryche wants fans to understand a little more, condemn a little less

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Queensryche, if they are anything, are surely uncompromising. Why, look at their new-ish album. It's called Condition Human and has trac...

This week just gone

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The most-read October stories, from any October: 1. RIP: Paul Walters 2. RIP: John Peel 3. RIP: Taylor Mitchell 4. Edith Bowman sheds c...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Mercury Prize 2015: The shortlist

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The Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced, which we'll get to a moment. But first, to celebrate the now-defunct communications comp...
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Lindsay Lohan throws her hat into overcrowded 2020 ring

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Kanye West - the character out of the Kim Cardigan show - has already made noises about perhaps running for president in 2020. I think we...

Michael Jackson TV Drama: Spoliers - he dies in the end

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Oh, good. They're turning Michael Jackson's death into a jolly television drama . (Given it was played out on TV in real time, str...

Justin Bieber can no longer be nude

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To be fair to Bieber, you should be able to do what you like in what should be a private place, with your private places, but this just soun...
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