Starpulse — Gay Gossip star Beth Ditto dated a male school friend for three years - because it stopped other men hitting on her.[...] Read more! more info

The Music Fix — Blog: What will Music Fixers be listening to between the pyromania of November the 5th and the rampant consumerism of Christmas? This is what. Tracks Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - 'Dance The Way I Feel' The World Health Organisation has identified thi... more info

Guardian Music — The rapper is due another outburst at the MTV Europe music awards like the one against Taylor Swift earlier this yearAge: 32.Appearance: A jackass.As in Equus asinus, the odd-toed ungulate beloved of hobby farmers and Italian sausage-makers? A donkey... more info

Live Daily — If anyone was wondering how R.E.M. [ tickets ] went from the brooding, disappointing murk of 2004’s “Around the Sun” to the urgent, clarion call, return-to-form of 2008’s “Accelerate,â�... more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — When an artist is utterly outspoken about herself, it's hard to resist trying to goad her into saying a little bit more. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Or sometimes it doesn't work before it works. Take, for example, Peaches. The Canadia... more info

Guardian Music — I've recently been enjoying Washed Out, whose woozy electro-pop conjures the sun-bleached sounds of summerIn September a friend emailed me some tracks by Washed Out and, while listening to the mutated drones and beachy buzz of You'll See It, I receiv... more info

Guardian Music — We're well up for being bludgeoned by an awesome sonic power, but these noiseniks just sound like tepid punk and kiddie gothHometown: Stockton-on-Tees.The lineup: Kingsley Chapman (vocals, guitar), Paul Chapman (guitar), Pop Chapman (bass), Phil Chap... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Now that we're into the month of November I thought that I'd use some of the postings over the next few weeks to make a few suggestions as to what might look good on lists written up for Santa Claus.I should point out that what will follow is by no ... more info