Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson have had a pretty tumultuous relationship – but they produce some brilliant music. Back to Black will deservedly go down as one of the best album of the ’00s; and they’re back together. Mark got a bit pissed with Amy two years ago when she refused to put in the [...]

MIA’s new album has been subject to a leak (anyone think these leaks are so frequents that they must be deliberate?). However it happened, we’re pretty excited. It sounds like she is singing over Suicide’s Ghost Rider. The song constantly repeats the line “I was Born Free” – pretty apt given her recent troubles. MIA [...]

Protest songs have been on the wain for ages – but it seems more and more politicians are trying to court pop stars to support political parties. Lily Allen claims in today’s Sunday Times that both the Tories and Labour have asked her to attend their conferences. The move from the Conservatives is especially strange [...]

In a recent folk on folk attack Joni Mitchell had a snipe at Bob Dylan. In an interview with the LA Times she said: Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I. [...]

Simon Cowell has made The Times Rich List today, adding almost £50 million to his fortune over the last year; but he only came in at number 11. Here’s the top ten music millionaires: Edgar Bronfman (£1,640m) Clive Calder (£1,300m) Lord Lloyd-Webber (£700m) Sir Cameron Mackintosh (£635m) Sir Paul McCartney (£475m) Simon Fuller (£350m) Sir [...]

Just a little while after saying Paul Weller was too wild, Noel Gallagher has popped up at one of his gigs to take the stage. Last night at London’s Relentless Garage the pair performed Oasis’ Mucky Fingers and Paul’s Echoes Round the Sun. Earlier this week though Noel told TalkSport: “I guess Weller’s my oldest [...]

The reunion of The Libertines has really left everyone confused to the future of Babyshambles. The sounds from Carl and Pete seem to suggest that their performances at Reading and Leeds could well lead to other things. It would seem unlikely that Pete would be able to hold down two bands, usually struggling to hold [...]

The Ivor Novello headline award look like it could be Brit award category this year. Dizzee Rascal, Bat for Lashes and La Roux are up for the best contemporary song. If the awards carry on this way they will end up as simply ignored footnotes. Not that these acts aren’t good – but would even [...]

The Coral have been off the radar for a little while now. When they released a singles collection therefore it was a little bit worrying – this so often being the last lazy attempt of record companies to cash in on bands. But no! They are back. It has been announced that on the Butterfly [...]

LCD Soundsystem have landed a big win by getting Spike Jonze to co-direct their new video with frontman James Murphy. Spike’s videos for Fatboy Slim, Bjork, Weezer and Kanye West have all been amazing – and this is no different. It sees the band being tormented by people in Panda suits – mixing cute, funny [...]