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By ROB JONES
It’s been a crazy year. There’ve been splits, some sad endings and some fine returns. Some singers proved handy with their fists, Chris de Burgh included. There were horror masks at Eurovision and in the Celebrity Big Brother house. And a few more people now know the capital of Malawi.
40 Hands up for Christ […]

Kanye West prepares to defend his “crap” video, Mariah Carey is unamused by her porn namesake of sorts, Take That’s comeback album shifts a million copies in just four weeks and it’s goodbye from soul’s Sex Machine…
Arise “Sir” Bono. The U2 frontman receives an honorary knighthood from the Queen for his humanitarian work - although, as an Irishman, […]

Open presents its Top 10 albums of 2006. Kevin Federline’s Playing With Fire didn’t make the cut. Neither did - brace yourself - Arctic Monkeys.
Music statiticians will need all their fingers and toes to count up this year’s UK chart-topping albums by indie boy bands. Pleasingly, most were by homegrown acts, with first releases from Orson, Hard Fi […]

 
Joe Driscoll is a beatboxing story-teller from New York. On his MySpace profile, he cites beatmakers from Björk to Beethoven as influences and lists guitars, stories, voice and, more obscurely, weird wooden African instrument mbira as his band members. Headlining at East London’s Cargo bar to launch his new album, Origin Myths, Driscoll reveals the […]