No Rock And Roll Fun

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 : ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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 : ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...