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Posted Fri 27 Feb 2009 1:37PM GMT
Girl Aloud Sarah Harding has apparently lost Elbow's Outstanding
Contribution gong from the other night's NME Awards. I'm not quite sure
how Harding came to be guardian of the Manchester band's award, but she
seemingly lost it in the toilets at th More »
Posted Fri 27 Feb 2009 1:31PM GMT
Reports claim that Grammy winning Ciara has cancelled plans to
release a duet with Chris Brown following his much previously reported
alleged beating-up of girlfriend Rihanna.
Her
track 'Turntables' was due to appear on her new album featu More »
Posted Fri 27 Feb 2009 1:29PM GMT
It was the turn of the academics to take to the witness stand in the ongoing Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm yesterday.
As
previously reported, four men behind the rogue BitTorrent tracker are
being tried for criminal copyright infringement, More »
Posted Fri 27 Feb 2009 1:26PM GMT
London-based Playlouder MSP has confirmed it has been talking to
the e-business division of the Isle Of Man about their plans to
introduce a system whereby the music industry grants a blanket licence
to all web-users for all their music, with a le More »
Posted Thu 26 Feb 2009 1:25PM GMT
MGMT have hit out at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party
for repeatedly using their song 'Kids' without permission. They say the
cheeky song stealing is ironic given the UMP is behind the hardline
anti-filesharing rules that are being int More »
Posted Thu 26 Feb 2009 1:21PM GMT
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham was on a bit of a charm offensive at
a BPI/ACM organised meeting the other night, which isn't that
surprising. After a year of getting up close and personal with the
music business, talking up his support for the ind More »
Posted Thu 26 Feb 2009 1:18PM GMT
Muse won on points at last night's NME Awards in London, picking up
three awards, but Oasis beat them to the title of Best British Band.
The Gallaghers were nominated in seven categories, but only took the
one gong, though Noel Gallagher got an aw More »
Posted Thu 26 Feb 2009 1:15PM GMT
While I have little sympathy for the Pirate Bay Four, or their
in-court claims of ignorance ("what, people use the service we decided
to call 'The Pirate Bay' to access pirated content, I don't believe
it"), nor their out-of-court suggestions More »
Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 12:43PM GMT
Is it on, is it not? Well, apparently it is. Faith No More frontman
Mike Patton's publicist has revealed that the band will be reuniting
later this year. A press release announcing Patton's score for upcoming
film 'Crank 2: High Voltage' closed wi More »
Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 12:40PM GMT
A New York judge has ruled that a gun found on board Lil Wayne's tour
bus may be admitted in the rapper's trial on charges of gun possession.
The hip hopper was, as previously reported, arrested back in 2007 when
an officer claiming to be able to More »