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Sound check: Rocking with Laughter

06.11.09
Flight of the Conchords are part of a trend that proves it's possible to make a comedy song you can listen to more than once.... more

YouTube comedy to hit TV big time

08.10.09
A hit YouTube video lampooning London's music industry is being commissioned for television... more

CDs of the week

02.10.09
Kiss bring out their first new material for ten years and Lethal Bizzle has a rollercoaster of a third album.... more

Burnside is onside for Rangers bid

03.09.09
The resignation of Sir David Murray as chairman and director of Glasgow Rangers has sparked speculation as to who may take over the current Scottish Premier League champions should he go the whole distance and offload his majority shareholding ... more

Hard Day's Night made easy with Bill Bailey

02.07.09
Wildlife campaigner, populariser of orchestras, now Beatles tribute act. Is there no end to Bill Bailey’s renaissance man credentials?.... more

Enough of digital fun - we want the real thing now

30.06.09
A funny thing happened on my way back from Springsteen at Glastonbury. I was driving across Hyde Park and distinctly heard Springsteen again. And I mean the man, not a recording ... more

Blasting into space at Glastonbury

29.06.09
The sun shone bright and Bruce Springsteen, Blur and Dizzee Rascal delighted fans at Glastonbury ... more

What a site: trouble at the World Trade Centre

19.06.09
The Freedom Tower has gone. The skyscrapers designed by Lords Foster and Rogers are now mere stubs but costs are still spiralling. Welcome to the most emotionally charged, financially ruinous chunk of real estate in the world... more

Fact is the new fiction in film

18.05.09
Their films cost a pittance but can earn millions – no wonder documentary-makers are on a roll.... more

Nothing can stop Girls Aloud

27.04.09
As the acceptable, slightly cool but slightly kooky face of manufactured pop, Girls Aloud are refreshingly honest about what they do.... more

Best rock nights in London

03.04.09
For a real spinal tap experience, here are the rock nights that go all the way to 11.... more

Darkness singer stages his return

03.11.08
Justin Hawkins was on fine form but there wasn't a lot to suggest that he and his hairy rock companions in Hot Leg would be headlining arenas any time soon.... more

Comeback kid drums up storm in The Rocker

16.10.08
Rainn Wilson makes a name for himself as a failed Eighties musician undergoing a midlife crisis in entertaining farce The Rocker.... more

Yes, we were the original Spinal Tap, says Rick Wakeman of Seventies prog-rock supergroup

16.08.08
He was the alcoholic, meat-loving Tory in a band of right-on vegetarians, an outrageous autobiography reveals.... more

Hot night with a mature Maiden

07.07.08
Iron Maiden may be silly and cheesily macho, but they showed at their Twickenham Stadium concert just why their global fanbase is millions strong.... more

Tracksuit party will jog your hip hop memory

30.05.08
Tayo's Tracksuit Party is a kitsch celebration of sports casual that has already gone down a storm at Notting Hill Carnival.... more

Jack's back and feeling his age

14.02.08
The Bucket List hurls an odd couple together, then asks us to watch as they transform each others' lives.... more

CDs of the week

11.06.07
Digitalism conjure up a fine dance-punk album, Bon Jovi head down the country road and The Twang strike a chord with their Happy Mondays-esque indie tunes.... more

Name-dropping Pratt holds back the good stuff

14.11.06
Much-travelled bassist Guy Pratt has turned his well-honed après-gig anecdotes into a comedy show and autobiography. But the stage version is decidedly sanitised, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Jude is back on form

11.09.06
All The King's Men showed up for this year's Toronto Film Festival. As well as the movie of that name, in which Jude Law put in his best performance for years, the festival's guest list outgunned Cannes and Venice.... more

Show needs kiss of life

07.08.06
Fringe review: The star of This is So Not About the Simpsons is Harry Shearer, the voice of the reptilian Mr Burns. Shearer and his Welsh wife sing songs and tell us things about America that we already know and their ditties left Bruce Dessau in need of medication.... more

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