No Rock And Roll Fun

The Guardian has a fairly in-depth interview with Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper this morning , with a couple of interesting headlines. The...

Liam Gallagher - or, since David Cameron's resignation honours, Baron Gallagher of Burnage - has called for more "mischief" fr...

The R&B producer Kashif Saleem has died . Kashif was a multi-instrumentalist. He was a singer. He was a producer. And he was responsib...

You know there are too many conspiracy theories when people are reduced to claiming that Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by an imposter ...

Most-read September stories: 1. 1Xtra's ticket sales fall apart 2. The Wolfhounds would like their publishing back 3. Pre-Coil Zos K...

What could be better than a treasure hunt that doesn't involve you having to fight a pirate to get a map, or spend hours in a field with...

Back in 1987, young, fresh-faced band The Wolfhounds signed a deal with Working Music for their publishing. What happened next is a common s...

You might have thought that everything that could have been re-released has already been re-released, and that we're now in an era where...

We've been on holiday - these were the recommendations before we went: Slow Club - One Day All Of This Won't Matter Download One ...

Your first instinct on hearing that Bros are reforming for a ten million quid tour is "ten million? Is it buggery going to be a ten mi...

Iron Maiden have announced that their forthcoming tour is going to be "paperless": Iron Maiden have announced their new UK tour w...

Puff Daddy has given a million dollars to the University he went to: Puff Daddy has donated $1 million to the Howard University in Washing...

Nick Jonas. He's had sex you know . "Any time I approach writing a song I think about the fact that since I started having sex my ...

Niall Horan has branched out since One Direction. Into, erm, golf : The 1D star, who runs a golf talent agency, is off to Minnesota next we...

You would have hoped that the BBC would have enough tech savvy to avoid a 'ticket sale fail', but... Two hours ago they put their ...

Today was Jeremy Corbyn's big digital plans launch. If we boil it down to 'I don't really understand this sort of thing but it...

The X-Factor. It's back, apparently. And busily giving a leg-up to acts who wouldn't stand a chance going through normal channels. ...

Sad to hear that Jaime Harding has been sent to prison - sad to hear that his life, which he had got back on track, has fallen apart again. ...

The most popular search terms so far this year: 1. No rock and roll fun 2. Is kt tunstall gay 3. Noel gallagher gay 4. Das psycho range...

To think we were all alarmed when Ukraine won Eurovision this year - would it make things tricky having them host? We were worrying over n...

Courtney Love believes that most of the songs written in the 1990s were about Courtney Love : “I remember I used to date this movie star in...

If you read the piece last week about how Standon Calling has somehow hit difficulties in returning money locked into its cashless wristband...

The Labour Party - increasingly the Freddie And The Dreamers of British politics - is having a torrid time of it at the moment, as it strugg...

Here's a sentence that might bring you up short: Figures from the pop music world have paid tribute to Lou Pearlman, the founder of Bac...

Last month was Standon Calling, and we went to the first day. There's a bit of a problem, though. Not with the festival itself - wel...

The most-read July stories: 1. Lily Allen's barbecue chums 2. Louise Mensch turns the Bataclan into terrorporn 3. The entitlement of...

"Hang about... why are we paying Keith double?"

"Keith, we're not going to make you leave the band. But..."

Last week's interesting releases: Jack & Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing Download Oddments Of The Gamble Nonkeen - Oddments O...

You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want You can't always get what you want But if you try somet...