The battle for the Christmas Number One officially kicked off yesterday with X Factor winner Joe McElderry going head-to-head with an internet campaign to get Rage Against The Machine's hit, Killing In The Name, to the festive top spot.An estimated 17 million people tuned in to ITV 1 last night (Sunday, December 13) to see McElderry beat fellow ...

Joe McElderry has beaten Olly Murs to win 2009's X Factor tonight (December 13).

So yeah, we already knew Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first single from forthcoming third album It's Blitz! wasn't going to be a Smashing Pumpkins cover. Instead of cybernetic walls of guitars, the New York trio's "Zero" puts Karen O's ever-expressive voice-- vulnerable murmurs, tough-girl sneers, breathy whimpers, sultry come-ons, Prince-ly high notes, etc...

Langerado Music Festival, the perennial early bird on the yearly festival circuit, has announced the initial lineup for its seventh annual event.So far, that lineup includes Death Cab for Cutie, Snoop Dogg, Public Enemy, Broken Social Scene, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Girl Talk, Tortoise, Bad Brains, the Pogues, George Clinton & Parli...

The explosion of online music-video content has brought with it a corresponding surge of videos that really aren't much fun to watch. The clip for Portishead's "Magic Doors" is one example, but the resurgent English trio are far from the only guilty parties. At least the music, from this year's Third, is exquisite: eccentrically clonking percus...