The official campaign to save BBC 6Music has confirmed details of a one off show at the Roundhouse.
BBC 6Music was founded in 2002, but to many fans listening to the station has become a way of live. Widely credited with helping to push new and left field artists, fans were shocked when the BBC confirmed [...]

Digital radio station 6Music is among the victims of a new cost cutting exercise at the BBC, director general Mark Thompson has confirmed.
Looks like it’s all over. After months of rumours, a report in British newspaper The Times last week suggested that BBC 6Music was set to close. Sparking furious debate, Director General of the [...]

Rapper Guru is reported to be in a coma after suffering a heart attack yesterday (Sunday 28 February). The 43-year-old is set to undergo surgery today at a hospital in New York.
The rapper’s condition was confirmed by DJ Premier, his partner in the seminal hip-hop group Gang Starr, in a phonecall to radio show Hip [...]

Animal Collective have announced details of a “psychedelic” art show, which will take place at New York’s Guggenheim Museum.
Taking place on March 4 to celebrate the museum’s 50th anniversary, Transverse Temporal Gyrus is a collaboration between the band and Danny Perez, and will feature music recorded specifically for the show.
“As New Yorkers, we are all [...]

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s daughter Frances Bean is to make her singing debut on a track also featuring My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, Andrew WK and Weird Al Yankovic.
Seventeen-year-old Cobain sings on ‘My Space’, which will appear on the eponymous debut album by Evelyn Evelyn, who are made up of Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda [...]

Pete Doherty is set to be quizzed by police over whether he provided drugs to documentary maker Robin Whitehead, who was found dead in London on Monday (January 25).
Whitehead had been making a documentary about Doherty’s old band The Libertines. She was found in the Hackney flat thought to be owned by Doherty’s friend and [...]

Radiohead raised more than £350,000 for Haiti relief on Sunday, playing a benefit concert in Los Angeles. The one-off gig, which didn’t include any television cameras, Leonard Cohen covers or cameos by Bono, marked the band’s first performance since last year’s Reading festival.
The Oxford band are “in the middle of recording” their eighth studio album, [...]

Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle has died, aged 63, after losing her battle with cancer.
It was reported last week that McGarrigle was “critically ill” after her son, the singer Rufus Wainwright, cancelled his Australian tour to be with her.
CBC News now reports that McGarrigle’s brother-in-law, Dane Lanken, has confirmed the singer’s death, while Canadian radio [...]

The BBC has admitted coverage of the launch of U2 album No Line On The Horizon last February, went too far - giving “undue prominence” to the band.
Critics said the BBC had given U2 “the sort of publicity money can’t buy“.
The corporation’s editorial complaints unit (ECU) acknowledged that radio coverage of the event, including a [...]

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Regine Chassagne have posted a message on the band’s official website asking for fans to donate to the Haiti earthquake appeal.
Tens of thousands of people are feared dead with many more injured following Tuesday’s (January 12) 7.0 quake.
Butler and Chassagne ask that donations be made to Partners In Health, a [...]