PopSugar UK —
BBC1 has QI
BBC2 has Never Mind the Buzzcocks: Technically, the Best Series Ever
BBC4 has Flight of the Conchords Special — One Night Stand
ITV2 has American Idol
Ch4 has A Place in the Sun: Down Under, Celebrity Big Brother: Live Eviction, P... more info
Silent Uproar — Following the Another Bites Tour through Europe, Buzzcocks will begin work on a new album and follow-up to 2006's Flat-Pack Philosophy. The album will see a release in 2009. more info
NME — Merge Records, home to bands including Arcade Fire, Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub, Conor Oberst, Spoon, Buzzcocks and Dinosaur Jr, have announced that it is putting on a five-day music festival to celebrate its 20th anniversary. more info
NME — Merge Records, home to bands including Arcade Fire, Superchunk, Teenage Fanclub, Conor Oberst, Spoon, Buzzcocks and Dinosaur Jr, have announced that it is putting on a five-day music festival to celebrate its 20th anniversary. more info
Guardian Music — James Wignall: With the loss of Bill Bailey this once-reliable panel show has suffered an apparently terminal crisis of confidence more info
Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Oasis' Noel Gallagher has said he is "outraged" at the furore surrounding his friend Russell Brand's radio scandal.Presenters Brand and Jonathan Ross are suspended from the BBC after making prank calls to actor Andrew Sachs, during which they made co... more info
Pitchfork — On November 24, fine art auction house Christie's will host an auction of punk, rock, soul, and reggae memorabilia called "Pop Culture: Punk/Rock" at its 20 Rockefeller Plaza location in New York City [via Idolator]. Well-to-do aging punk rockers: He... more info
Stereogum —
Beating Hot Topic at its own game, Christie's has scheduled their first full-scale auction of punk memorabilia. The lots, which go up for sale on 11/24, include more than 120 records, photos and "promotional pieces" from Patti Smith, the Ramones, th... more info
3hive — Only one minute and thirty four seconds for you today, but it's brilliant DIY pop from Brooklyn's Cause Co-Motion! (or alternately caUSE Co-MOTION!) doing their take on the early Television Personalities, or what the Buzzcocks would have so... more info