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Saturday, November 28, 2015

It's the monthly "Top Of The Pops revival" moment

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As has happened probably ever three hours since Top of The Pops was axed, we're going through a 'they're going to bring back Top...
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It's not Long Lost Family

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The International Business Times oversells the Minogue duet: I know for a fact they've met up at the odd Christmas, and I'm sure t...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

15 Step: Other people's lists

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An annual amalgamation of other people's attempts at best-of lists. And, perhaps, the odd worst-of, too. Part of 15 Step Last updated...

15 Step: The uberpost

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It's only a month until Christmas, which means it's time for us to start trying to scrape the year into some sort of shape. The firs...

Martyn Ware: The National Trust

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Martyn Ware out of Heaven 17 et al has been collaborating with The National Trust on a sea-themed artwork. It's easier to explore than e...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Mark Seymour tells racists to get lost

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Hunters And Collectors heard that their music was being used by racist wank-gerbils Reclaim Australia. Mark Seymour isn't having it : I...
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Barack Obama to work with Coldplay

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For the best part of a decade, Fox News and the people who watch it as if it was a news channel have done their best to besmirch Barack Obam...
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Embed and breakfast man: Pins

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Ooh... there's a new Pins video:

Bookmarks: Chvrches

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I'm pleased that I've lived long enough to see Clive James write about Chrvches , but I'm delighted that he lived long enough to...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Lil Boosie apparently has a problem that isn't ours

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Lil Boosie - who, clearly, was at the back of the queue when hip hop handles were being handed out - has a problem with All The Gays on his ...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Beakyobit: Keith Mitchell

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He'll be remembered for his acting rather than his strange pop career, of course: Keith Mitchell has died . The story of Captain Beaky...

Embed & Breakfast Man: Little Joy

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That rundown of ten years ago reminded us that we miss Little Joy, the Strokes spin-off project... Officially, they're on hiatus (be...

This week just gone

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Five years ago - the most read stories this day in 2010: 1. R Kelly sex video to get an airing in court 2. Underworld cover King Creosote...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Mercury Music Prize 2015

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It's interesting to note that the Mercury has reached a point where it's not got a sponsor as such, any more, and is "in associ...
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Eurovision 2016: First homophobic artist selected

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For some reason, every round of Eurovision seems to come with some far-right tosspot or another being selected to go and do a song. This tim...
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I wish I was on Ken Bruce (With rotation on Jo Whiley)

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Sandi Thom's heart-string-tugging video complaining that she wasn't on Radio 2 got a bit overshadowed by events last weekend. To ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Folding magazines: Three titles shutter

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None music magazines, although all had connections (greater or lesser) with music - Details, FHM and Zoo have all run out of time today. B...

He probably did think the song was about him, and correctly so

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Carly Simon has surprised nobody by confirming that, in part, You're So Vain is about Warren Beatty : The singer, 70, tells PEOPLE that...
Monday, November 16, 2015

This isn't a post about the Bataclan

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This isn't a post about the Bataclan. This isn't a post about the Bataclan, because there shouldn't need to be one. This isn...
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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