Getting back to work quickly after suffering a miscarriage with Chemical Brothers’ Ed Simons’ baby, Lily Allen shot the pilot for her new BBC3 chat show this week, which is scheduled to debut later this year. The British station’s website reveals that Blur’s Alex James will lend his myriad charms to the premiere. Always good […]

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This is an incredibly eye-opening piece about Morrissey’s inner circle written by a man who managed to be accepted into Morrissey’s entourage, who was flown into the US from the UK only to be unceremoniously dismissed after one day of service. The article presents no bias against Morrissey. In fact, the opposite is true. Andrew […]

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Lisa Marie Presley, Alexandra (and the other one) Richards, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and if I’ve had enough Red Bull and vodkas, maybe even Rufus Wainwright – there’s something hot and mildly Freudian about wanting to bang the offspring of rock ‘n’ roll royalty. In a way, through some sort of ovarian osmosis, it’s like metaphysically doing […]

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Ringo’s recent walking out on Live with Regis and what’s-her-trash for trying to make him cut his new song short reminded me of another time Ringo asserted his bad-ass-ness. I once saw Ringo on The Arsenio Hall Show way back when. And Arsenio, curled up like a gay praying mantis and being the smug douche […]

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Amy Winehouse’s smoking crack is neither interesting nor surprising. She’s a complete and utter mess. Even stating that is stating the obvious. If you’ve ever seen her perform, you can tell by her unemotional glassy stare that the road to oblivion is not long. Idolator actually grew a conscience with regards to Winehouse schadenfreude, calling […]

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Jens! (obligatory shout out.) I’ve been to a couple of Coachella’s (though, not the Pixies/Radiohead one, which would have been AMAZING). This looks to be a solid lineup. I don’t know if anything will ever top Daft Punk’s performance in ’06. And will Portishead’s music really translate well to a large polo field? The smaller […]

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Now, if only Distortion involved Stephin singing his songs whilst playing the uke instead of that other vocalist, I might not be so disappointed in the album. (here’s the Channel 4 video) Update: By Request, here’s an Mp3 of the performance for your downloading pleasure. nun’s litany, solo acoustic (uke).

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