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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 ...

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

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

The Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced, which we'll get to a moment. But first, to celebrate the now-defunct communications comp...

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

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...

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...