Rihanna has reportedly banned fans from bringing umbrellas to her concerts over fears that someone could be injured. Umbrellas have become a key accessory at Rihanna concerts ever since the R&B star released the phenomenally successful single ‘Umbrella’ last year. Read more >>

Lily Allen will not be playing at this years Isle Of Wight Festival, according to festival organiser John Giddings. Giddings said that Allen’s representatives had told him that she won’t have delivered her second record by the time the event takes place in June. Read more >>

The people behind popular BBC TV show Ashes to Ashes have announced details of its official soundtrack, released later this month. Unsurprisingly it will feature the David Bowie track from whence the show was spawned, ‘Ashes to Ashes’, as well as a veritable smorgasbord of acts from those heady days in the early Eighties. Read more >>

Those quite brilliant Belgians, dEUS, have announced details of a one-off show in London next month. The gig takes place at the Scala on April 16 and will showcase their upcoming new album ‘Vantage Point’ which will be released through V2 Records 12 days later. Read more >>

The line-up for the Summercase festival in Madrid and Barcelona this July is expanding. Kings of Leon, The Long Blondes, Foals, Los Campesinos!, The Sex Pistols, The Verve and Sons & Daughters have all been newly confirmed for the music extravaganza. Read more >>

The Enemy’s frontman Tom Clarke has promised that the band’s second album will be “banging”. The band are currently recording songs for the as-yet-untitled LP in a studio just outside their hometown of Coventry. Read more >>

Bjork has released a statement about the furore that has erupted after she dedicated her song ‘Declare Independence’ to Kosovo and Tibet during recent shows. Read more >>

The video for Gnarls Barkley’s new single, ‘Run’, has been withdrawn from MTV over fears that its strobe lightning could cause epileptic seizures. The video, which features a cameo appearance Justin Timberlake, failed to meet guidelines set out by the Harding Test, which establishes whether images are likely to cause an epileptic fit. Read more >>

Lily Allen has hit out at the paparazzi claiming that a photographer smashed her car window – something which has left her “angry and upset.” The comments refer to images in yesterday’s papers which apparently showed that Allen’s BMW had been broken into late on Monday night. But speaking on her Myspace blog the singer has blames the paps. Read more >>

Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards has become the latest face of Louis Vuitton in an advertising campaign for the famous fashion brand. The 64-year-old has been drafted in to promote the Core Values campaign, selling branded travel luggage and accessories, which promotes the ‘process of self-discovery’ and ‘personal journeys.’ Read more >>

A film about the life of Bob Marley, which will be lifted from the autobiography of his widow, Rita Marley, looks set to go into production. Rita Marley, who released ‘No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley’ in 2004, will also act as an executive producer on the project. Read more >>