ContactMusic — Famously blonde heartthrob Niall Horan from One Direction has allegedly been forbidden to change his hair colour by straight-talking manager Simon Cowell The teenager reportedly sent a text to Simon asking if he could dye his golden locks completel..... more info

Topix — As March comes to a close, so does our month-ish-long battle royale between 64 New York musicians, all of whom were put in the mix to decide which one best embodied the spirit of the city. more info

Guardian Music — It's easy now to see that when rock and disco clashed, disco won. But records like this suggest we should have realised a whole lot earlier It happened earlier this month as I piloted a tiny rented car across Lanzarote, regaled by the awful playlist ... more info

Guardian Music — Warner BrothersAfter a decade on the block, prog rockers the Mars Volta haven't abandoned widdly-widdly guitar solos, Roger Dean-type sleeves or preposterous titles (Molochwalker, anybody?). However, they have suddenly produced a most accessible albu... more info

Guardian Music — Who knew feminist rock was full of sax? Not meWe live in an era when rock's past has been so exhaustively documented, it sometimes feels there's nothing left to discover. So there's something weirdly exciting about uncovering a buried piece of musica... more info

Pop Crunch — We aren’t sure if this is a compliment to Debbie Harry or an insult to Lindsay Lohan. The Blondie veteran was mobbed by a crowd of rowdy pappers as she [...] more info

ContactMusic — Former Thompson Twins star Alannah Curry is working with Blondie singer Deborah Harry again - as a furniture designer The Hold Me Now singer who wrote Harrys I Want That Man hit has been commissioned to create a club chair for the punk icons home in.... more info

Guardian Music — New York hip-hop met London punk as the Clash embarked on their love affair with the music of black America As well as being comfortably the best thing the Clash ever recorded (sue me), this song, recorded in April 1980, comes from one of the really ... more info

Guardian Music — It's about time the Lijadu Sisters' unique, punkish slant on 1970s funk, soul and disco got its rightful duesPerhaps it's not surprising that the Lijadu Sisters have spent the last 30 years languishing in obscurity. Life as a female artist in the 1... more info

Guardian Music — A new photography exhibition documents the closure of punk's ground zero – and waves goodbye to a New York institutionA movement that proclaimed there was "no future", punk rock is supposed to kiss goodbye to the past without even shrugging its lea... more info