The internet was supposed to change the music business forever. And it certainly has made the business of music much less profitable.
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Soon to be the UK Number One album, Plastic Beach has been described as “strange, unpredictable and jawdroppingly good” by The Sunday Times. The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis said: “Albarn is the only artist from the whole Britpop imbroglio to whom you could attach the word geniu.” It features contributions from Bobby Womack, one half of The Clash and Lou Reed. Buy it.
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In a humiliating climbdown this week, the British Government has been forced to admit they had no right to ban Snoop Dogg from entering the UK for three years after an airport brawl in May 2006.
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Kanye West doesn’t hold back on his new blog.
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David Geffen not Warren Beatty is the swine at the center of the lyrics to You’re SoVain, Carly Simon has revealedon a new version of the song. But Geffen is openly gay. What is going on?
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Lady GaGa has posed topless for a photoshoot in Q magazine. You can see the pictures here. After the jump. Go on. You know you want to.
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Ouch! Adam Lambert has launched a stinging attack on Susan Boyle.
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Everyone is having kittens about the future of the studio The Beatles recorded most of their great works in. Why?
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What a busy weekend it was for some.
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Janie Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix’s half-sister and controlling force behind his estate, has reportedly signed a deal immortalizing the Purple Haze singer forever in in the video game world! No! Here are seven reasons why this idea sucks, after the jump.
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Frances Bean Cobain is to launch a singing career – and God knows she will have no shortage of material for her lyrics. But will she be successful? Perhaps by looking at nine other rock star kids’ careers we will get an idea of how the 17 year old will fare in the rough and tumble of the music business. After the jump!
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AC DC’s Brian Johnston has no time for Bono. No time at all.
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Tomorrow (Friday February 5th) Michael Jackson’s personal physican will be arreste on charges of involuntary manslaughter. Today his character has been examined – and assassinated – in the court of public opinion.
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Fall Out boy have split up.
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Ok so Taylor Swift is perfect. Except when it comes to holding golden statuettes of gramophone players used to congratulate musicians for success in the music business. There. we said it. See Taylor drop the ball – and the Grammy – after the jump. It’s all very cute.
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Lindsay Lohan and Lady Gaga could soon be making sweet music together.
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Here’s a ton of the weekend’s highlights. Read them here as its much quicker than going all over the place. Obvious really.
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February 1st, 2010
By james
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Concern is growing for the pop future of Lily Allen. The UK singer has been in getting some summer sun in Australia recently, but managed to cram a public collapse, criticism of racism in Australia, and announcement of her retirement into one single week.
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Lady GaGa has so much to answer for. The daring sartorial conceptualist and pop singer dressed so weird at The 52nd Grammys yesterday - everyone else had to too. See the smorgasboard of insanity after the jump. GaGa we love you, you crazy bastard. You are saving pop music singlehandedly. Yay!
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February 1st, 2010
By james
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This documentary, that hit a few arthouse cinemans this week, is about the Bill Withers, awesome 70s soul singer who hasnt sung for 25 years. If you want to hear one of Withers timeless songs, and witness greatness up close, see footage of him performing Ain’t No Sunshine live in a tiny TV studio after the jump. WIthers’ band demonstrate a lightness of touch rarely seen, even back in 1972.
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Plus this lady here takes off her clothes for a fashion photographer. See after the jump.
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January 28th, 2010
By james
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What could possibly be wrong with that?
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Good Charlotte’s album is so bad that Madden has ordered it destroyed! And everyone agreed.
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January 26th, 2010
By james
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To raise money for the victims of the Haiti Earthquake, British pop music mogul and talent judge Simon Cowell will be arranging a cover version of Everybody Hurts by REM to be performed by many of Britain’s best-known artists, including Rod Stweart, Robbie Williams and Leona Lewis. Michael Stipe has confirmed the band would wave all royalties from the song. But Cowell’s Hope For Haiti troupe aren’t the first to record versions of the track written by REM’s drummer Bill Berry. Not by a long chalk, my friend. After the jump, 19 more, including The Chipmunks.
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Mariah Carey has had Paris Hilton sacked from a music video.
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And they say there’s no glamour in pop!
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Putting even Tupac to shame, the estate of Jimi Hendrix will release yet another ‘new’ Jimi album on March 8.
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Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has ‘begged’ Simon Cowell to let him be a judge on the next series of The X Factor.
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This story is in no way an excuse to publish pictures of Jennifer Lopez in that see-through skin tight catsuit, OK?
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Yoko Ono, the widow of Beatle legend John Lennon, has pledged to write an autobiography. Ono, who married Lennon in 1969, has long maintained a silence on her time with Lennon and her dealings with the other Beatles.
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Could it get any worse? Of course it can! Amy Winehouse has been charged with assault and a public order offence after allegedly attacking a theatre manager at a pantomime performance of Cinderella.
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Michael Jackson’s 333 page FBI was made public yesterday. While half the file remains secret, the exposed material reveals Feds tried to help LA police convict Jackson of child molestation in 1993 and 2004.
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In the world’s most boring story, Guitarist Ed O’Brien told NME that they’re looking forward to getting back in the studio to record their new material. Zzzzzz
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Rock band Rage Against The Machine is ahead of X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the race for the Christmas number one, early sales figures suggest.
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There is only ever one winner of Britain’s Got Talent, X Factor and the rest. And that man is Simon Cowell.
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