Reuters — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Katy won a leading nine nominations for the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday, reducing eccentric superstar Lady Gaga to also-ran status with just three nods. more info

ContactMusic — Lady Gaga dropped by Howard Stern's radio show on Monday (18th July 2011) to perform and discuss her latest single 'The Edge of Glory', but instead began revealing details of her history with drugs. In a near one-hour long interview, Stern had Gaga s... more info

Guardian Music — This London four-piece lionise the lo-fi, celebrate scuzz and fetishise fuzz. Yup, it's our old friend slacker-popHometown: London.The lineup: Jock, Ed, Billy and Kit.The background: More artists, we feel, should telegraph, via their name, what organ... more info

VH1 Blog — Despite selling more than a million copies during its first week of release, Lady Gaga‘s Born This Way is being whispered about in many industry circles as both a creative and commercial disappointment. Some have even bandied around the theory that... more info

Pop Crunch — Singing, dancing, smiling posse Kidz Bop — whose “hits” include covers of Poison’s “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn” and Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor” — have released their tweentastic take on Lady [...] more info

Guardian Music — Imitation not sincerest form of flattery as Lady Gaga claims ignorance of singer's mermaid-in-wheelchair routineWhen Lady Gaga dressed up as a mermaid in a wheelchair, it wasn't mermaids who got upset, or people who use wheelchairs, but rather Bette ... more info

Guardian Music — Photographer Nick Knight on fashion, music videos and Lady Gaga more info

NME — Singer tells Howard Stern about her past drug habits more info

Pop Justice — » Pink has taken up knitting. (Female First (http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Pink-40602.html)) » Sugababes survivor Keisha Buchanan performed several new songs - as well as some cover versions - last night at an event to which we were not... more info

Gigwise — Calls cocaine 'the devil'... more info