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Saturday, April 09, 2016

The Spectator listens to Lily Allen

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The Spectator, trying to make things easier for the Establishment, isn't going to let Lily Allen try and land a blow on David Cameron : ...

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Rolling Stone decides its not Miller time

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Back, then, to last night's inductions to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Over at Rolling Stone, you can read dispatches from the nigh...

I think we need to send someone to go round and check on the BPI

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The BPI is involved in a scheme called Get It Right From A Genuine Site. It's well meaning, kind of like a Sunday School teacher getting...

Steve Miller less than impressed with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Steve Miller has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He's not entirely thrilled by it all : Asked to expand on his cri...
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Countryobit: Merle Haggard

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Merle Haggard has died at the age of 79. There are, of course, any number of obituaries online already. Perhaps the best story about H...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

This week just gone

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The most-read March stories: 1. Avalanche closes, and how Record Store Day played a part 2. Daily Star misreports Viola Beach crash 3. C...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Beatlesobit: Fred Arnold

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Really, this is just a plug for an article over at The Arkansas Times , recording the death of Fred Arnold. The story starts as an everyday ...

The tide wasn't as strong as Jay-Z was told

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Oh, poor Jay-Z. He's currently threatening to sue the people who sold him Tidal, as it turns out that he might not have been buying quit...

Bieberwatch (or, rather, Bieberlisten)

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As promoted by Popbitch, there's a handy new site which keeps track of whether Capital FM is playing Justin Bieber :
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Mariah Carey marks a new point

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Today, we put down our small-dog-in-a-handbag and call on our hat attendant to raise our bejewelled hat to Mariah Carey, who has managed to ...

Chris Brown hasn't reminded us for a while how charming he is

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Who knew it was possible to make a young woman's attempted suicide worse? Chris Brown has managed it, though : Since Kehlani made the p...

Shirley Manson's starting point facing closure

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After decades of neglect by the council, and (possibly made-up) figures of a million quids' worth of repairs, Inch Community Centre in E...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

What do they know of Brit-pop, who only Britpop know?

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Radio X - the radio station that used to be known as XFM - has polled its listeners to find the best song ever. We wish they hadn't : ...
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Monday, March 28, 2016

Chvrches supporting Rape Crisis fundraising

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Lauren Mayberry is supporting a fundraising campaign by Rape Crisis in Glasgow . It's worth your support - not because of the endorsemen...

Ticket fraud is growing

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Hey, guess what? As buying tickets for big events becomes ever more a process of sitting staring at the messages servers make when they'...

Where is JB from JLS now?

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You have to love Jonathan Benjamin Gill out of JLS. He's a huge traditionalist, it turns out, as - like so many pop stars of the 60s and...

It's a shit business, say Queensryche

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Oh, you think you have it tough, in your job with no security and such a weak pension scheme you're still going to have to turn up to pu...

Mariah Carey stays solid. Just from a distance.

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Mariah Carey was supposed to play Brussels last night. Faced with the opportunity to carry on as normal, she, erm, chose not to : I love my...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

This week just gone

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Five years ago - what people put in their faces: 1. Billy Corgan tried a joke; people fact check joke 2. Tatu don't understand why pe...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

This week just gone

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Most-read March 2015 stories: 1. NME slaps a Noel cover on again 2. Conor McNicholas: where is he now? 3. The music industry's menta...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Did Madonna "humiliate" a fan? Erm...

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The Madonna tour of Australia isn't going well - she's been turning up late and - as a sympathetic post on Boy Culture admits - has...

We live in a post-genre world, maybe

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Peter Robinson's bit in yesterday's Guardian suggesting we live in a world where genres are meaningless was in interesting read : L...

The Avalanche falls: How Record Store Day closed a shop

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Edinburgh record store Avalanche is closing up - and, ironically, it's partly the success of Record Store Day that is to blame. In a ...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Cameron gets briefing on Rita Ora to make him look in touch

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What's worse than a politician who shoehorns in references to pop culture to try and "connect" with the "electorate"...
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Losing your virginity at 59

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Your gig virginity, that is - this is a clip from this week's You And Yours:

This week just gone

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So far this year… the most-read 2016 stories: 1. Liveblog: Brits 2016 2. James Blunt tries to be queer positive 3. Beyonce confuses the ...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

The Daily Star deliberately misreports the Viola Beach crash

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Friday morning, and an unequivocal front page from the Daily Star about the accident which killed the band Viola Beach: It was, says the St...
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Progobit: Keith Emerson

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Keith Emerson, the one who wasn't Lake or Palmer, has died . Oddly, Mark Ronson was also out the blocks to pay tribute (this time with...
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Producerobit: George Martin

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There's been a great deal written about George Martin over the last couple of days - I can't recall an occasion previously when a re...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

Who wrote on Bryan Adam's guitar?

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Bryan Adams is cross, because when he picked up his guitar after arriving in Egypt, it has been defaced : Airport customs graffiti on my 19...
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