No Rock And Roll Fun

The victory for Ukraine at Eurovision on Saturday night hasn't gone down well everywhere. And by "everywhere", I mean "at...

You'll recall that last time we came across Azealia Banks, the Zac Goldsmith of pop had taken to Twitter to call Zayn Malik a "curr...

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It's that time of the year again, with an additional element for the liveblog in 2016: I'm jetlagged to hell. We've already had ...

The Dionne Warwick biopic sounds like it might be, erm, singular : [It was] announced at a Cannes Film Festival press conference this morni...

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They don't do it while you wait; it's stictly an Only When You Leave business. Possibly the best business pun ever. Gold. pic.twitt...

Surely the weakest link in Yacht's tiresome sex tape hoax was the fundamental problem that - for their story to have worked - you would...

It's not simply that Azeailia Banks managed to cram quite so much racism and homophobia into her tweets to Zayn Malik ; it's the way...

Oh, NME. Oh, NME. Your story on Eurovision is poor: Justin Timberlake will become the first ever act who isn't a competitor to play th...

So Beyonce played a gig in Houston last night, and protestors turned up. Did the police take steps to ensure the protest remained peaceful...

Science doesn't just listen to old Queen records. Science tries to understand old Queen records. Science has decided that Freddie Merc...

The most popular Prince posts of all time: 1. That time Prince played KoKo in 2007 2. That time in 2010 when he said the internet was pre...

The Open University's OpenLearn Live service has pulled together a collection of some of the more thoughtful responses to the sudden dea...

A PR message aimed at festival goers arrives digitally. There is no doubt that experiencing the Stagecoach Country Music Festival is an ex...

Bugger. Bugger that, and bugger this year.

Last year's Wireless Festival was a bit of a nightmare. For two weeks, a huge chunk of Finsbury Park was put behind a massive fence. Iro...

Yes, yes there is. As if the Ticketmaster behemoth hadn't rolled over enough of the music industry, they're teaming up with simila...

Lily Allen's story about being stalked is enough to make anyone sit up and take notice: “This guy came steaming in and I didn’t know w...

The releases from the Friday before last: Future Of The Left - The Peace And Truce Of... Download The Peace And Truce... Teleman - Brill...

Prince had to get his private jet to make an unscheduled stopover in Illinois after he felt ill onboard . He'd apparently been ill bef...

The most read 2016 (& NYE 2015) stories so far: 1. Jedward take on ISIS 2. Avalanche to close 3. Liveblog: The Brits 4. First homop...

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...