Madonna has admitted that she found it hard to share, what she called “diva space”, with Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams. Both of the performers appear on the singer’s new album ‘Hard Candy’. Read more >>
Boy band McFly are considering allowing their fans to name what price they want to pay for their next album. The group recently formed their own record label after ending their four year relationship with Island Records. Read more >>
Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson says that she feared Tom Waits would hate her debut album, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’. The record, which was released this week, features ten covers of Waits own songs and one originally composition. Read more >>
The Ting Tings have joked that their record label, Sony BMG, should drop them so that they can get inspiration for a second album. The band, who were dropped when they first started out, look set to take the top spot in the album chart this weekend with their debut LP ‘We Started Nothing’. Read more >>
The original Specials line up have reformed and will embark on a UK tour to this autumn, according to singer Terry Hall. "We've been trying to do it for five years, but we solved those problems and hopefully got over them," Hall told Billboard. Read more >>
The Kooks premiered a new song, believed to be called ‘Shelter’, during a secret show in Los Angeles last night (May 20th). The band’s last minute performance at the Kibbitz Room club was witnessed by just 69 people. Read more >>
Amy Winehouse will play on the Pyramid Stage just before headliner Jay-Z at this years Glastonbury Festival, organisers have revealed. Emily Eavis, one of the festivals main organisers, said she had “total faith” that the singer will “come and deliver”. Read more >>
The jury in the trial of R&B star R Kelly have been shown the videotape which prosecutors claim shows the singer having sex with an underage girl. The 27-minute film is the prosecutions main piece of evidence in Kelly’s trial, which officially began yesterday (May 20th). Read more >>
Led Zeppelin will play four shows at the Toronto Skydome in Canada this August, according to new reports. The band, who reformed last December for a one off show at the O2 Arena in London, haven't responded to the claims. Read more >>
My Chemical Romance fans are understood to be planning a march across central London over the portrayal of emo music in the media. The march, planned for May 31st, is expected to begin in Hyde Park and end at the offices of the Daily Mail newspaper. Read more >>
Courtney Love has responded to reports which claimed that her new album had been scrapped. "No 'scrapping' is going on, simply a few retakes, especially since all those recordings were leaked to the Net," Love wrote on her Myspace. Read more >>
Teenage actress Miley Cyrus is to release her first studio album under her own name this summer, it’s been revealed. ‘Breakout’ will be released in the US on July 22nd and will be preceded by the single ‘7 Things’, which has already received American airplay. Read more >>