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Joss Stone’s return proves weird and underwhelming, things are even worse for All Saints and Britain’s Eurovision campaign takes off in style…
Dallas Austin says sorry to Christina Aguilera and Joss Stone after suggesting that the singers slept with producers to get decent songs. Had that been the case, Stone might have come up with something […]

By ROB JONES 
When I was 14, my voice croaked somewhere between a not-quite-broken rasp and a dog whine and it was still a couple of years away from being officially mannish. My hair was regrettably styled with a highly flammable amount of economy gel, Baywatch was stirring new thoughts and my musical taste stretched little […]

By ROB JONES 
Evidently, Robbie Williams’s head is no funfair these days. But is it really a trauma of medical proportions to have an obscenely successful career, be the headline act of a million women’s lustful imaginations and register a bank balance with nine digits before the decimal point?
Sure, there are downsides to being rich and […]

If size does matter, Beth Ditto, brash supersized frontwoman with American punk trio The Gossip, has not been informed.
We may be merely 300-odd fans lining up between A and P in the rock and pop section of a London record store, but Ditto puts in no less energy than if there were 70,000 of us […]

By ROB JONES
With the news that the nation’s best-loved misery guts, Morrissey, will be lending neither quill nor quiff to the Eurovision Song Contest, we can get back to the usual business of entering some wafer-thin pop song that stands out like a sore thumb in a hospital.
The old grump had reportedly been chatting with […]