Chiefs to top bill at booze-sponsored Irish festival
Leeds' finest success story of 2005, Kaiser Chiefs, are to headline next year's Heineken Green Energy festival in Dublin...»
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Oil fire destroys Cullum's tour gear
Picture the scene: there's a wee fella, a bit like a gnome, but with the face of a goblin, all hoppin' excited 'cause he's going off to tour Europe pretty soon. He's stashed all his fancy gear in a warehouse in Buncefield, you know, where that big oil depot is. Ahhh, the wee man's so happy... happy... BOOM.»
A Fairytale retold: Christmas classic re-released today
The Pogues' Christmas classic 'Fairytale Of New York' - you know, the one about the lousy faggots; I always stuck to Mr Brains m'self - is re-released today. So, um, go buy it and knock that silly JCB song off the singles chart summit...»
Coldplay in progression shocker
Coldplay's Guy Berryman has told 6Music that the band's next album, their fourth, will be a substantial progression from their previous three long-play releases...»
Pete should have HIV test, says former dealer
Owen O'Dwyer, a former dealer to Babyshambles' mad-driving front man Pete Doherty, has told The Sun that the singer should have an HIV test. O'Dwyer was recently diagnosed with HIV, and says that the pair took drugs in each others' company for a while»
Stipe reveals his post-gig comedown secrets
So you've just come off stage. You're sweating, but you don't notice: the buzz is just too strong. So you kick back for five. Take on some beer or maybe press some backstage flesh; in a non-sexual sense, of course. Unless, that is, you're Michael Stipe. Then you blaze off in your motor and cook someone dinner.»
X-Factor winner did it for mum...
Some nine-point-something million people tuned in to the X-Factor final on Saturday night (although more were watching Darren Gough twirl a bit), where 21-year-old Shayne Ward scooped the £1m recording contract. Personally, Andy kicked his vocal chords all over the stage...»
McFly's Dougie: not a fan of 'Totally Frank', then...
Oooooh, Mr McFly, that's not the right thing to be saying... »
Blunt goes big: singer announces massive shows
To say that 2005 has been kind to former soldier-type-man turned 'singer' (come on, he really can't, sing that is) James Blunt is like saying Carling looks and tastes like piss: a whopping understatement...»
Pogues top VH1 Christmas list
VH1 viewers have voted 'Fairytale Of New York' their favourite Christmas song for the second year running...»
The Sun sayeth: Sugababe to quit
Mutya Buena is close to quitting the Sugababes, so reports The Sun...»
We Are Wolves - Non-Stop Je Te Plie En Deux
The style council has adjourned: We Are Wolves, teach yourself some songs already...»
Xtra Mile go, um, the extra mile: release nice records
The nice people at Xtra Mile are to release a four-part series of split seven-inches next year, featuring some really quite smashing acts...»
JCB song outsells Westlife
Nizlopi's more-irritating-than-Sharon-Osbourne 'JCB Song' is totally outselling Westlife this week, leading to bookies William Hill slashing the duo's odds of making Christmas number one to 15/8...»
House of Pain to reopen their doors?
Bandana-rockin' rap foo's House of Pain - ah jump ahrownd, jump ahrownd - are considering getting back together, such is the wurd on da streetz (of the internet)...»
Bluetones dates revealed
The Bluetones play a series of dates in March. Tickets are already on sale and are expected to sell-out fast...»
Momma said knock you out... of your habit
Snoop Dogg's mother, Beverly Broadus Green, has established an organisation designed to steer children away from the tempting world of guns and gangs...»
The heavy rock flock takes to touring: Part Chimp et al on the road
Could this be the heaviest bill of 2006, and it's in January, when most are still nursing festive headaches? Oh my gosh it just might be...»
Britney fans want Kevin out
Fans of pop-mum Britney Spears can unite at a website demanding that she divorces her husband, dancer-turned-would-be-rapper Kevin Federline...»
Old bands do new things: Wonder Stuff, OCS
Oldies aren't so bad, y'know? Well, Ocean Colour Scene are pretty awful, but some folk like 'em all the same. So, the guys are catching the train all over again to the following places this month (PLUS: The Wonder Stuff news)...»
ShockWaves shows update: GLC, Hard-Fi
Further acts have been added to the NME's series of ShockWaves gigs for early next year, taking place in the weeks leading up to the magazine's annual awards bash...»
Orenda Fink - Bloodline
"There's no way out, if I catch you breathing," she says forcefully; best play dead and hope this spectre passes over without bowing its head your way...»
Sabotage Left - Woke Up Fucking / Uni Is A Whack Of Shit
The song titles give Sabotage Left's game away before you're anywhere near playing them: this archaic music is about as subtle as digging a pit in your mother-in-law's lounge and asking her to jump right in...»
BSM Christmas Party at London Camden Barfly, Sun 11 Dec
You know you’ve been to the Barfly when...»
Sound Explosion sign fat licensing deal
They patrol venues with megaphones and have an irritating habit of making headline acts look as rock as Charlotte Church's 1996 Advent Calendar, and now northern loud-mouth types The Sound Explosion have inked an impressive deal with a major label...»
Mudhoney ready a Billion Suns to shine in early 06
Grunge veterans Mudhoney, nearing their 20-year anniversary as a band but no less rocking for their age, are to release their new record through Sub Pop in March...»
Prince returns to major-label ways
After years of shunning major label advances following his 'SLAVE' days of woe, Prince has once again hopped atop the big boy saddle: his new album, 3121, will see the light of day through Universal...»
Have a messy Christmas: buy a Trencher/Esquilax split
Keyboard-abusing punk loons Trencher have filled one side of a limited-edition split 10", yours for just some quid this Christmas. T'other side of this slab of violent metal tomfoolery is occupied by Esquilax. So go buy, yeah...»
DiScover: Let Our Enemies Beware
DiS introduces you, readers, to another new, exciting talent. Let Our Enemies Beware call Medway home and The Rock their own. They writhe and wriggle, twisting their way through a hundred ideas in the space of a four-minute song. Then they light the fuse and run the fuck away. Read, listen, fall dangerously in love...»
Coldplay - Talk
Oh, you know: waa waa waa, waa waa, waa waa waa waa...»