Lee Irons leaves the Departure. This headline could have been better, no?
Guitarist and vocalist Lee Irons has left indie-rockers The Departure...»
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Britney: unlikely to emulate "frickin' Tina Turner"
Mother without a baby seat Britney Spears is bored of today's pop tarts, saying that she's keen to return to music to challenge the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Ashlee Simpson...»
Kid Rock caught on camera... with his pants down, literally
Pop-rock-rapper Kid Rock has been caught on tape doing the do with a brace of lady friends, a la Ms Paris Hilton and, rather more famously, Pamela Anderson...»
Enablers confirm UK tour dates
Powerful, spoken-word rockers Enablers, whose second long-player Output Negative Space is due for release through Neurot in March (US) and April (UK), have confirmed a number of UK shows for March...»
Albarn to offer alternative view of Notting Hill
Gorillaz and Blur mainman Damon Albarn is to co-write a screenplay, alongside award-winning playwright Roy Williams, on the everyday hustle and bustle of Notting Hill...»
Gig goers hurt as wall collapses
A number of gig goers were injured last night in Stourbridge, when a 40-foot wall collapsed during a performance by Noise Pollution (no, us neither)...»
Black Hearts proceed to album number five
The Black Heart Procession will release their fifth studio album, The Spell, through Touch and Go on May 8th...»
Party for FREE this Friday - Silver Rocket and DiS play pop
DiS has tickets to give away to this Friday's one-off Econoline show in London, featuring stunning support and rubbish DiS DJs...»
Jackson fails to prevent ex-wife from seeing kids
Michael Jackson has failed to block his ex-wife Debbie Rowe from seeing the two children the couple had together...»
Soul singer David Hall dies after cancer battle
London-born soul singer Lynden David Hall died on Tuesday, following a two-year struggle against the rare form of cancer, Hodgkin's Lymphoma...»
A carpet fit for a Prince
Pop pixie Prince, due to perform at tonight's Brit Awards, has requested that organisers alter the shade of their welcoming carpet ever so slightly for his arrival. Yes, the sexy M.F. himself wishes to enter the event on a PURPLE carpet...»
No Floyd, but Waters will do Dark Side at Roskilde
Although David Gilmour has put the brakes on any Pink Floyd reunion, quashing rumours of an Albert Hall run later in the year, former bandmate Roger Waters has given Floyd fans something to smile about...»
Girls Aloud in no nomination shocker: "It's a complete joke"
Not-shit poppers Girls Aloud are to give the Brit Awards a miss completely this evening after the five-piece weren't nominated in a single category, despite being all shades of awesome across the usually drab pop charts this year...»
Strokes wary of British beatings
The Strokes used to fear for their safety when they visited our shores, so reports Giant magazine...»
Monkeys plan ahead, record acceptance speech
Arctic Monkeys, currently on tour with Maximo Park et al on an NME-sponsored jaunt, have recorded an acceptance speech in advance of tonight's Brit Awards...»
Naomi Awards: celebrating the cackest of the cack in poop musak
This year's Naomi Awards - held around the time of The Brits to remind folk of the very worst that pop's had to offer over the last 12 months - have revealed that Westlife are the biggest losers of late to hang about our charts like a bad smell...»
Panic At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Panic! At The Disco’s back story reads like the stuff of rock and roll fantasy – they struck lucky when a member of another absurdly popular (but considerably more bland) emo-pop band heard them online and immediately reached for his chequebook, bolstered by newly acquired major label dollars...»
This Aint Vegas, October All Over, That Fucking Tank at Wheatsheaf, Oxford, Sat 11 Feb
This Aint Vegas are forever tarred with a brush that leaves such adjectives as ‘jerky’ and ‘angular’ in its wake, but the application of such apparent clichés is absolutely reasonable considering their penchant for convenient pigeonhole avoidance. It’s not that they are jerky or angular, particularly, but that their mix of pop, punk and a whole lot else is something that leaves the would-be writer – the would-be critic – both mesmerised and superbly muddled, unable to resort to anything but the above terms...»
Hard-Fi will flog award, if they win
Hard-Fi singer Richard Archer has told The Star that the band will auction their Brit Award - if they win one - on eBay...»
Robbie's wallet = roughly the size of a space station
He wears that Cheshire Cat grin for a reason, y'know: last year, Robbie Williams paid himself a staggering £30,000 a day. Yes, each and every day. That's £11 million over the course of 2005...»
Joss joshing us? Singer reckons she wants to be a midwife
Popular with middle-aged mums about the land type, Joss Stone, has told a website that she's quite keen on quitting music to pursue a rather different career path...»
Onward Christian Soldiers... to jail
Scott Stapp, former singer in God-bothering stadium rockers Creed, has been nicked at Los Angeles Internation Airport for being thoroughly pished...»
Tour news: Maximo Park, Jenny Lewis
Why bundle Jenny Lewis' tour dates with Maximo Park's? Why not...»
Devics - Push The Heart
Yes, I know I’ve not been wholly faithful, but you must understand: neither were you. “Don’t think of what we can’t be,” you told me so soon, going back to him, your Dustin; to his piano so in mourning whenever you stepped from its side to seduce me with a voice so divine...»
Former Million Dead folk seek out vocal talent
Ex-Million Dead bassist Julia Ruzicka and guitarist Tom Fowler have got together with former Cars As Weapons drummer Rich Harwood to form a brand new band. Sounds good on paper (paper? On screen...), but there's a hitch: the band need a vocalist.»
No seat edges to squat on at these venues: Bring Me The Horizon on tour
Rising metalcore pretty boys Bring Me The Horizon, whose four-track EP This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For was recently re-issued through Lostprophets-starring label Visible Noise, are off on tour next month...»
3 Doors Down singer hurt in car accident
Brad Arnold, singer with popular-in-the-States rockers 3 Doors Down, was injured in a car accident on February 1st...»
Kylie hints at Neighbours cameo
Kylie Minogue has been quoted in The People as stating that she may one day return to Neighbours, the Australian soap opera that launched her career...»
65days and Charlottefield get Lovely in Belgium
65daysofstatic and Charlottefield are among the British acts confirmed for this year's quite-great-looking Rhâââ Lovely Festival, held in the Belgian town of Farnelmont...»
Kerry cautioned after Warrington brawl
Kerry Katona, that girl with the big boobs off the Iceland adverts, has been cautioned by Cheshire Police...»