Forget the au-pairs and posh nosh. Glastonbury's still the real dealBrian Boyd on musicFri May 09 2008 - 01:00
Cat Laughs festival line-up revealedDETAILS OF the 15th annual Smithwick's Cat Laughs Comedy Festival were announced in Dublin yesterday.Wed Apr 16 2008 - 01:00
U2's 12-year concert package with Live Nation likely to be a record breakerANALYSIS: U2'S DEAL with concert promoter Live Nation comes as no surpriseTue Apr 01 2008 - 01:00
The end of the purple reign?PROFILE PRINCE : The maverick singer is coming here as part of yet another farewell tour - but we should appreciate him now, …Sat Mar 01 2008 - 00:00
Sibling rivalryGlasgow band Sons & Daughters have found a new sound on their poppy latest albumFri Jan 25 2008 - 00:00
Amazon aims to take bite out of Apple with download dealThe annual US Super Bowl sporting event goes out to a huge TV audience and is much coveted by advertisers, who routinely break…Fri Jan 25 2008 - 00:00
EMI ditches 2,000 staff . . . and one cheeky chappy threatens to strikeWhen Terra Firma, a private equity firm, assumed control of the EMI label last year, accountants had to reach for the smelling…Fri Jan 18 2008 - 00:00
Just put your lips together and blow - the return of whistlingWhen Peter, Björn and John first released the single Young Folks in May of 2006, it shuffled into the charts at number 33 and…Fri Dec 28 2007 - 00:00
Everyone's a loser in the Morrissey vs NME feudMorrissey and the pious indie kidz at NME are engaged in an unseemly bout of handbags following NME's cover story last week on…Fri Dec 07 2007 - 00:00
It'll take more than Motown magic to fix your MP3 playerEvery Friday at Tamla Motown Records, Berry Gordy would hold a meeting that determined which batch of songs would get released…Fri Nov 30 2007 - 00:00
Fans turn Prince purple with rage, then move him to songEarlier this year Holden Lenz was filmed at home in Pennsylvania by his motherFri Nov 16 2007 - 00:00
Could Radiohead's faith be deeper than Sir Cliff's?You've got to hand it to Cliff Richard, with his sanctimonious Christian grin, his weird hair that never moves and his fake chumminess…Fri Nov 09 2007 - 00:00
It's Cowell v Mao as Pop Idol brings 'democracy' to ChinaI'm so with the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China on this oneFri Nov 02 2007 - 00:00
Back in the hoodCraig David thinks he might have more street cred if he was from a Chicago ghetto, with Playboy models in his videos and a few…Sat Oct 27 2007 - 01:00
From golf-club tipple to ghetto-fabulous grogA No 1 hit, routinely cited as one of the best hip-hop songs of all time, 2003's Slow Jamz was a collaboration between Kanye …Fri Oct 26 2007 - 01:00
Why Madge signed a record deal with a concert promoterIt used to be that every week brought a bad news story for the record companies. Now it's every hour, writes Brian Boyd.Fri Oct 19 2007 - 01:00
Zep's reunion gig is going down like a Led balloonA friend of mine doesn't live in a flat, he lives in a Led Zeppelin shrine: one bedroom, one kitchen and one room that is wall…Fri Oct 12 2007 - 01:00
Magic makerMANAGEMENT: He opened a music shop because he couldn't find the records he likedMon Oct 08 2007 - 01:00
Heaven only knows why this Irishman never became a starRough Trade's Geoff Travis doesn't have any regrets about discovering and signing The SmithsFri Oct 05 2007 - 01:00
Spector finds that there is such a thing as bad publicityPerhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Michael Jackson court case three years ago was the revelation that the mother of the…Fri Sept 28 2007 - 01:00
A prod from Pitchfork can give a band a bounceFor most of the time since its launch in 1985, Spin magazine has been a successful dedicated college rock magazineFri Jul 27 2007 - 01:00
Twilight of the album, as Ash opt for singles-only futureHeard any crap albums recently? Yeah, so have I and so have a lot of people, including Ash's Tim Wheeler.Fri Jul 06 2007 - 01:00
The ultimate conspiracy theory: it's time the tale were toldI've heard my share of conspiracy theories, some of which are rather far-fetchedFri Jun 29 2007 - 01:00
The self-importance of being a coke-addled rock'n'roll starThis year's T in the Park festival in Scotland (the sister festival to our own Oxegen) will be hosting stalls set up by drugs…Fri Jun 08 2007 - 01:00
Listen to Live Earthers? I'd rather face the floodIt's a tough choice: having to listen to Al Gore and Madonna banging on about the poorly woorly environment for a day, or climatic…Fri Apr 13 2007 - 01:00
Fans favour single tracks over the full experienceTHE end is nigh - again. This time it's not the end of the high-street record shop or the traditional record companyFri Apr 06 2007 - 01:00
Yoshimi battles Gorillaz in 'jukebox musical' smackdownEver since the box-office receipts for Mamma Mia! were published (30 million happy punters and counting), the music world has…Fri Mar 30 2007 - 01:00
Goodbye megabucks, hello Starbucks, says McCartneySTARBUCKS sells coffee in three sizes: small, medium and largeFri Mar 23 2007 - 00:00
'I feel like a witness to my own absence'The 'reality' of modern life is drained of meaning, according to the late philosopher and pop-culture inspiration, Jean Baudrillard…Tue Mar 13 2007 - 00:00
Record companies bite hands that feed themIF you're a record company and you're trying to install a DRM (Digital Rights Management) programme by stealth, you had better…Fri Mar 09 2007 - 00:00
Old punk songs never die, they just get some sleepRICHARD Jobson's friend joined the British army in the mid-1970s and was killed while on a tour of duty in BelfastFri Feb 23 2007 - 00:00
Not a single 7-inch, say digital dissentersWITH The Beatles and Apple behaving as new best friends, the attention has now switched to other big-name artists who are withholding…Fri Feb 16 2007 - 00:00
Global warning: eco rockers emit hot airANYONE else notice how much better the world is since Sting decided to save it a decade or so ago? The most recent research on…Fri Feb 09 2007 - 00:00
The madness of the music quiz machineTHERE'S a pub in London - I'm not telling you where - which has a very generous quiz machineFri Feb 02 2007 - 00:00
Downloads can buy you loveHOORAY for Koopa the band who are now a footnote in the musical history books by dint of the fact that they are the first unsigned…Fri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
TV on the radio - it's the way to goTHE people most mourning the cancellation of the poxy US teen drama The OC are not the show's fans - which is probably because…Fri Jan 19 2007 - 00:00
All kinds of everything - and MorrisseyFROM Jordan to Morrissey. The bizarre connect-the-dots link here is the Eurovision Song ContestFri Jan 12 2007 - 00:00
Easy on the eyes - and the earsHIS debut album isn't due out until February but already Mika is being hailed as the face and the voice of 2007Fri Jan 05 2007 - 00:00
In search of heroes and musical odditiesHERE'S a novel attempt to try to break Apple's stranglehold on the music download market: charge people more for every song they…Fri Dec 22 2006 - 00:00
Pitchfork sticks it to bands out of favourThere's been one good review of the new Pain Funnel albumFri Dec 15 2006 - 00:00
Internet killed the video starWHEN Ghyslain Raza picked up a golf ball retriever at his school in Canada a few years ago and pretended it was a Star Wars lightsaber…Fri Dec 08 2006 - 00:00
Disobeying all the cool rulesTHE NME's self-styled annual "Cool List" is usually a tragic affair - inevitably featuring Pete Doherty and a bunch of other …Fri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
Squeeze the Tube and see what comes outIn many ways, YouTube was a Napster waiting to happen. Shortly before Google bought the video site for $1Fri Nov 17 2006 - 00:00
This Handbag is still swingin' after 12 yearsBack in the days when there used to be a nightclub called the Kitchen in the basement of the Clarence Hotel, a peculiar thing…Fri Nov 03 2006 - 00:00
Guitarists take their licksAS A consequence of the ascendancy of guitar rock in the charts, sales of acoustic and electric guitars are bigger than ever.Fri Oct 27 2006 - 01:00
Do wah diddy, diddy dum diddy doPUFFY are a Japanese pop duo who were created by a record label and a management companyFri Sept 22 2006 - 01:00
