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  • Adele leads the Ivor Novello nominations

    17 April 2012

    Surprise, surprise. After being nominated for practically every musical honour going lately, Adele has now bagged a gaggle of nominations for the Ivor Novello Awards. The multiple-Grammy winner has been nominated for Best Album for 21 and Best Song Musically and Lyrically for 'Rolling In The... MORE

  • Madonna's MDNA suffers biggest second week slump in US chart history

    11 April 2012

    Madonna's latest album MDNA has earned the dubious honour of recording the biggest ever second-week slump in US chart history. Madge debuted at the top of the charts last week, shifting over 359,000 units of the record but has sold just 46,000 in its second week of release - a drop of 88%. Frankly,... MORE

  • The Wire star to play Ol' Dirty Bastard in new film

    23 March 2012

    How's this for some casting? Michael K Williams, who is best known for playing Omar in The Wire, has signed up to play the late Ol' Dirty Bastard in Dirty White Boy, a film about the life of the Wu Tang Clan rapper reports Deadline Hollywood. Earlier this year ODB's FBI file was released to the... MORE

  • Ten great new(ish) songs that you might not have heard yet

    15 March 2012

    There's really just not enough time in the day to keep up will all the latest music releases and this is why we have put the hours in for you and cherry-picked some of our favourites of the last few months for you. A lot of different musical bases are covered below, from noise-pop, to hip hop to... MORE

  • Liam Gallagher named best frontman of all time by XFM

    14 March 2012

    In what can only be described as a highly dubious poll conducted by radio station XFM, Liam Gallagher has been voted the greatest frontman of all time, beating Freddie Mercury into second place. The ever humble Gallagher responded to the news by saying: " Greatest frontman? I knew that... MORE

  • 50,000 Sony tracks hacked, including rare Michael Jackson material

    5 March 2012

    More than 50,000 digital files, including some of Michael Jackson's back catalogue, has been stolen from Sony's website by hackers. Sony acquired the rights to Jackson's material in a multi-million dollar deal and subsequently released the King of Pop's first posthumous album Michael in December of... MORE

  • Music producer defends Rihanna/Chris Brown collaboration

    24 February 2012

    Music producer The-Dream has lept to the defense of Rihanna after her controversial decision to work with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. Brown was sentenced to five years probation and six months of community service after attacking Rihanna at the 2009 Grammy awards. The-Dream said: "It was Rih's... MORE

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