Noddy Holder says 'Merry Xmas Everybody' is his pension fund - every single year he's handed a big fat royalties cheque. Now that cheque looks set to be even fatter in 2009. Yep, Universal Music are releasing a Slade album titled 'Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade Party Hits' on November 23 in the run up to the festive season. Read more >>

Jamie Cullum has announced a thirteen date UK tour for May 2010. It will be the first time Cullum has toured since 2006 and sees the jazz crooner play The Palladium in London as well as dates in Scotland and Ireland. Read more >>

Teenage folk singer Taylor Mitchell has been savaged to death by two wild coyotes. The animals attacked the 19-year-old when she was on a solo trek in Cape Breton park in Nova Scotia, Canada on Tuesday. Read more >>

50 Cent's new album 'Before I Self Destruct' has leaked a month ahead of its release. Scheduled for global release on November 23, the record appeared on various illegal file-sharing websites yesterday. Doh! Read more >>

Billy Corgan has attacked the use of the Barack Obama and the H1N1 vaccine claiming that it is part of a “propaganda machine”. Posting on Everything From Here To There, the spiritual website Corgan recently set up, the Smashing Pumpkins singer says “I have read reports from people who say (as doctors) that there is evidence to suggest this virus was created by man.” Read more >>

Michael Jackson has come third on Forbes magazine's annual list of top-earning dead celebrities. The late singer's estate is thought to have earned $90million since his death in June. Read more >>

Led Zeppelin's bassist John Paul Jones has confirmed the band have dropped plans to tour without singer Robert Plant. Jones, guitarist Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham had hoped to hit the road with a session singer after Plant said he had no plans to return to the band. Read more >>

Almost ten million people watched U2 perform a live gig on YouTube last weekend, it has emerged. The concert, at Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, was the single-largest streaming event in the video-sharing website's history. Read more >>

Marcus Mumford from the folking brilliant Mumford & Sons has started his very own book club. Each week the singer is picking a book for fans to read and discuss via the official Mumford & Sons website. Read more >>

Foo Fighters are to stage a live performance from their studio in California via Facebook on Friday (October 30). The US band, who are preparing to release their greatest hits album, announced details about the gig on their Facebook page. Read more >>

Screenings of Michael Jackson's This Is It generated an estimated $4.4million in its opening two days in the US. The film, which shows the late singer's final days, opened late on Tuesday after being premiered simultaneously in 19 different countries. Read more >>

A high-resolution picture of Michael Jackson's body, apparently taken during his autopsy, has been offered to TV executives, it's been reported. The image is said to show the late singer's head, with his eyes wide open, on a metal autopsy table. Read more >>

The Dead Weather are set to play a very special Halloween themed show at a London church this weekend. Jack White, Alison Mosshart and co. take to the 'intimate and unusual' stage in Shoreditch Church at 7pm on Saturday (October 31). Read more >>

The Dead Weather played a triumphant sell out show at London's Brixton Academy last night (Thursday October 28). The band, consisting of Jack White, The Kills Alison Mosshart and members of Queens of The Stone Age and The Raconteurs, played an hour long set featuring material from their debut album 'Horehound' as well as new unrecorded material. Read more >>