So, Jonathan Ross returned to the BBC this weekend with his widely reported “so, where were we?” quip at the start of his weekly BBC 1 TV show on Friday night, and then his return to the scene of the crime, Radio 2 HQ, for his radio show on Saturday morning.

The Australian Competition And Consumer Commission has given the green light for the country’s indie labels to offer joint licences to broadcasters.

Talking of pop star clothing, former Velvet Revolver frontman and Stone Temple Pilot Scott Weiland will launch his own fashion line via designer Christopher Wicks’ company English Laundry. Wicks, who also produces the official Fender and Jimi Hendrix clothing collections, will work with Weiland to create a range of “contemporary men’s clothing” that will be [...]

Deerhunter have rescheduled their upcoming European tour, due to “unforeseen circumstances”. The new dates for the UK and Ireland are detailed below, continental dates will probably be confirmed next week.
Here are the dates:

Dave Portner of the Animal Collective has posted on his MySpace after having to cancel a gig in LA on Friday night because he wasn’t feeling too good.

MIA, who, as previously reported, is co-writer of Oscar nominated track ‘O…Saya’, has spoken about the honour. The track is of course one of two songs from Danny Boyle directed film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ to have been nominated in the Best Song Category.

Black Lips have been forced to flee India after coming to the attention of local authorities because of the content of their live show.

If Keith Allen thinks you should shut up and stop saying outrageous things, it’s probably a sign that you’ve gone a bit too far, even if you are his daughter.

Blur’s Alex James has told The Sun how, while dabbling in the world of record label management in the 90s, he turned down the chance of signing Coldplay because he found their music “ordinary”. He was forgetting, of course, that there’s a lot of money in the ordinary. And the dull. And the tediously mediocre. [...]

Morrissey has been dissing Jamie Oliver and Victoria Beckham, and quite emphatically too. Though, he was kind of led into it, because he was asked in an interview about his last day on earth, and who he would most like to kick in the eye before he dies.