Big plan for ‘The Pirate Bay V.2′ ?

The boss of the Swedish technology firm which has paid $7.9 million to buy The Pirate Bay says he will turn to rogue BitTorrent tracker into a legit licensed content distribution operation. Read more

GaGa brands herself ’soulless’

Finally Lady GaGa and I can agree on something. She has revealed that she considers her music “shallow” and “soulless”. But she thinks that by doing that she’s being clever. Read more

Sharkey meets with the Tories’ cultcha team

UK Music top man Feargal Sharkey met with the Tories’ culture team this week, the first time a rep of the music business has attended one of the opposition’s regular meetings to discuss the cultural industries. Read more

Grizzly Bear announce show with LSO

Grizzly Bear have announced that they will play live with the London Symphony Orchestra at London’s Barbican Centre in October, which sounds lovely. Read more

My Morning Jacket to release Harrison covers

My Morning Jacket’s frontman Jim James is to release a six track EP of George Harrison covers that he recorded following the death of the late Beatle back in 2001. Read more

Foals chap talks about new material

Foals man Yannis Philippakis has been talking about the material the band are making for their next album, and says they’re not soaking up the kind of influences you might expect. Read more

Grohl, Homme and Jones in the studio

According to reports, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones are currently recording together. Read more

Amanda Palmer live news

As well as her previously reported 22 Aug gig at the Edge Festival - you know, the music strand within the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - CMU favourite Amanda Palmer has also confirmed a concert at London’s Union Chapel on 12 Sep. Read more

White Lies on success and what have you

White Lies have been talking about having a good year of it, and have concluded that they deserved it. Read more

Pirate Bay bias claims knocked back by appeals court

Now Sweden’s Court Of Appeal has confirmed that the judge who oversaw the high profile Pirate Bay trial was not biased. Read more

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