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Something to remember when the claims about how the Brits put British music in front of the world are made over the next fortnight. In the...

We hear a lot from the rich and successful in the music industry about how people breaching copyright is a terrible, terrible thing. What ...

Can you tell what the story is from this Sun headline? Yes, it's 'idiots complain because they can't tell the difference betwee...

Louise Mensch pulled together a Madchester playlist: #Madchester playlist Tunes Splits the Atom, There She Goes by the Las, She Bangs the ...

Oh, MySpace. Yes, it's still going, just about, and it's just been sold on again - I'm imagining at a car boot sale, in a box al...

Poor right-wingers. There they were, enjoying their Superbowls, probably chuckling a little - "look, someone on Twitter has posted a pi...

Ellie Goulding sought an interview with David Cameron, the current Prime Minister of some of the United Kingdom. He couldn't find time :...

The most read January stories: 1. James Blunt tries to say the right thing. Doesn't 2. RIP David Bowie 3. RIP Mark B 4. RIP David B...

These days, you'll be aware, Dan Wootton, once of the News Of The World is now sitting in Gordon Smart's old chair at Bizarre. He...

Sonu Nigam was on a chartered flight, and encouraged to sing a song or two over the PA system. He obliged. Trouble is, nowadays if things ...

There is nothing desperate at all in the Stone Temple Pilots search for someone, anyone to do the singing bit : 2016 marks a new year for S...

Last weekend I was in Amsterdam, so this is the first opportunity to react to the question why did Rihanna give her album away for free on T...

Phil Anselmo's Nazi salute and "white power" cry during a Dimebag Darrell memorial hasn't gone down well - and perhaps the...

Back in November, Leo Sayer was talking up the possibility that he was going to play the Legends slot at Glastonbury. He was sort-of-righ...

From the YouTube channel of Simon Price, a fairground organ in Utrecht plays Space Oddity:

Arriving back in the UK from a weekend in Amsterdam, on a TV screen glimpsed through a security window was a grinning, waving Terry Wogan. W...

Dale Griffin, Mott The Hoople's drummer, has died . Although it was his work on the drumstool that leads his biography, Griffin's ...

Geeky list: top ten browsers used by No Rock visitors so far for 2016: 1. Chrome 2. Firefox 3. Safari 4. Internet Explorer 5. Opera 6...

There's been no end of great (and also rotten) pieces written about David Bowie, but none perhaps as strange as former NME editor Steve ...

Do you ever find yourself, in quiet moments, wondering whatever happened to "don't call me Sting's daughter" I Blame Coco?...

Giorgio Gomelsky, the original manager of The Rolling Stones, has died . His entry into the music business came by way of London's cof...

Troy Shondell, a Transatlantic one-hit wonder, has died . His hit, This Time (We're Really Breaking Up), sold a million copies in the ...

If you think that UK pop stars are a little disconnected from the struggles of everyday people, you might want to redirect your attention to...

The most popular posts from 2006 - you'll notice a theme: 1. R Kelly's sex video is to be shown in court 2. Lily Allen gets chang...

You can understand Adele getting a bunch of shortlist slots. But, really, British music industry? James Bay gets nominated in four categorie...

That's been a hell of a day. You could hear Shaun Keaveny on 6Music trying to keep it as light as possible, but also trying to keep it t...

The radio alarm clicked on this morning to the words "it's been announced in the last few minutes that David Bowie has died." ...

Jude Rogers has done a great piece for The Pool on why pop music is brilliant : Pop music provides emotional links back to our earliest mem...

Ed Stewart, known as "Stewpot", has died . One of the many who made the leap from pirate radio to the starting line-up of Radio ...

The most read 2015 stories, in case you're curious: 1. Brits liveblog 2. Eurovision liveblog 3. Suede at Glastonbury 4. Grooveshark...