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As previous reported, Matt Cardle won the final of this year's X Factor yesterday (Sunday, December 12) with a cover of Biffy Clyro's Many Of Horror. The track will be released later today under the new title of When We Collide.Speaking to Kerrang!, Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil said that he doesn't really what his band to be too heavily assoc...

A previously unreleased Björk song soundtracks Nick Knight’s new 3-minute “fashion film” “To Lee, With Love, Nick,” a tribute to her friend, the British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who killed himself earlier this year. It’s a beautifully orchestral, noisy, upswinging, meditativ...

I opened my December Mix with “Let Them,” a track that finds jj transforming T.I. and Akon into another example of their weirdly icy, warm Swedish pop. The song’s also supposedly showing up on their forthcoming Kill (or jj kills or jj fucking kills, a mixtape set to appear, appropriately, on Christmas Eve. This [...]

The 20-minute short film that accompanies 30 Seconds To Mars' new single Hurricane has been banned after censors deemed it too explicit for UK TV.For an example letter from the censors, and to find out what's been deemed too offensive for telly, see Jared Leto's blog.Don't worry though, the uncut version of the video is expected to make it onlin...