The Pogues brought their annual festive tour, and a healthy dose of Christmas spirit, to London last night (December 18th). The band wowed a sold out crowd on what was the first night of a three night residency at the Brixton Academy. Read more >>

U2 will released their 12th studio album, 'No Line On The Horizon' on March 2nd, it's been announced. The album, the follow-up to 2004's 'Hot To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb', was recorded alongside Brian Eno and Danny Lanois. Read more >>

Madonna's latest single has failed to chart inside the UK top-20 for the first time in the singer's career. 'Miles Away', taken from her 2008 album 'Hard Candy', only managed to make number 39 in the UK charts this week. Read more >>

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has slammed Coldplay – accusing them of making “music to wipe your ass to”. Taylor made the remark when asked to comment on Coldplay's latest album 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends'. Read more >>

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has revealed that the band were left stranded in America earlier this week when their tour bus broke down in heavy snow. “Disaster struck last night. The fuckin' bus broke down. Four hours kip was all we got 'til we ground to a halt in the middle of nowhere. Pitch-black and snowing sideways,” Gallagher wrote on the band's website. Read more >>

Elbow have announced details of an intimate gig at London's Abbey Road studios. The concert, on January 17th, will see the band unite with the BBC Concert Orchestra for a performance of their Mercury Prize winning album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'. Read more >>

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, Lily Allen and U2's Bono were among guests at a Christmas party in London last night (December 18th). The three performers partied along with a host of celebrities at the annual Freud Christmas celebration. Read more >>

US rapper Jay-Z heads a cast of hip-hop legends on the soundtrack to the forthcoming Notorious BIG biopic, Notorious. The album, which is released on January 26th, also includes songs by BIG, Jadakiss and P Diddy. Read more >>

The Streets' frontman Mike Skinner has revealed that the collective are ready to begin work on their last album. In a message on the band's website, Skinner said he was just awaiting delivery of a custom-made mixing board. Read more >>

Take That's new album has sold almost one million copies in just nineteen days. 'The Circus', the band's second album since reforming in 2005, is the fastest million-selling album of this millennium so far. Read more >>

Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he and John Lennon used to take out personal advertisements in newspapers just so they could see their name in print. Sir Paul said the pair, along with late Beatles guitarist George Harrison, would simply invent adverts for a Liverpool newspaper before they were famous. Read more >>

The late Jeff Buckley looks set to come second in the official Christmas chart after sales of his cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' passed the current number one Leona Lewis, Gigwise can reveal. Buckley's cover has sold just over 56,000 copies so far this week – 5000 more than Lewis's cover of 'Run' by Snow Patrol. Read more >>

Prince has released a new funk song on a previously unknown internet website. 'There Will Never B Another 1 Like M' is the fifth new Prince song to debut this week. Read more >>

Tracks by Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce Knowles and Jack White are among 49 listed for Best Song at next year's Oscars. Springsteen has been longlisted for his contribution to the movie The Wrestler, while Knowles appears for 'Once In A Lifetime', which featured on the soundtrack to Cadillac Records. Read more >>

Moby has temporarily turned his back on vegetarianism for the forthcoming vampire movie, Suck. The dance producer and DJ plays a character called Beef Bellows, lead singer of an imaginary band called Secretaries of Steak, in the film. Read more >>