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Following Haley William’s version of events that led to the departure of Josh Farro and his brother Zac left the band, the former has written extensively on his reasons why they left the band, Paramore on December 18th.

The Xbox red ring of death error is a problem which has plagued around 1 in 3 consoles made. For those using your Xbox to play music, the red ring of death causes problems in all areas for both the CD player and playing video games

For anyone wanting to learn and play the guitar Jamorama has developed its name as one of the best tuition courses which is available to download. Over 200,000 people have learnt the guitar at there own pace at home without a tutor saving, a great deal in tuition fee's. The guitar course was recently seen in the Guitar World Magazine along with many other press coverage stories.

Increased use of reverse cell phone directories have seen a sharp rise lately to find the owner of a specific number. Be it a cell phone or landline these special directories have hit over 1 million searches per month. It looks like a contributing factor to these figures could be celebrities in the music and showbiz industry using phone lookup services for security means.

Not content with winning much of what there is to be won in the music industry, Lady GaGa has recently scooped MTV News’s Woman of The Year. This is quite an achievement as she won the award for a second year in a row without releasing an album.

There can be no doubt that 2010 belongs to Kanye West. His brilliant and enigmatically entitled, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which has sold and continues to sell by the truck load.

The Isle of White festival line – up is looking quite promising with Hurts, Seasick Steve and Iggy and the Stooges being the latest additions to what is looking to be a promising line – up.

American legends and rock band REM are to release their 15th studio album next year. The record entitled, Collapse Into Now, was recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin, and was produced by Jacknife Lee, a producer that has previously worked with U2, Bloc Party, and Weezer.

Legends Alice Cooper and Neil Diamond are to be admitted to the famous club together with Tom Waits, Darlene Love, and Dr John.  The artists will be added in March 14th when they will be hourned at an awards ceremony held at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter front – man Dave Grohl is to appear in the new Muppets movie. In the film, the hard rocking singer will stand in for Animal and take anger management classes in a cameo role for the film.

Scottish Rockers Biffy Clryo have given a reaction to Matt Cardle’s version of their song, stating, “It’s an X - Factor Version of the song”, with drummer Ben Johnston saying, "The whole thing’s a bit surreal, we think it's all quite funny."

Despite the name changes and reclusive nature of this most eccentric of musical geniuses, the Purple One shows that he still is one the world’s greatest performers. Opening his ‘Welcome 2 America’ tour, at the Izod Arena in New Jersey, Prince played some of the best song from his catalogue including ‘Uptown’, Raspberry Beret’, ‘U Got The Look’ and ‘Cream’.

The prestigious London music venue the 100 Club will almost certainly close at the end of the year, largely down to increased running costs. The club which has been acknowledged as being a significant factor in the development and promotion of British Jazz music and saw patrons such as Glen Miller, has had some of the greats play on its stage.

The band Train, who recorded, ‘Hey, Soul Sister’, which was one of the best selling and most radio played songs of 2010 expressed disappointment at being nominated for only one Grammy.

A popular free avatar maker Website has recently reported an increase in people using the Website to create avatars of their favorite pop stars and Celeb's. Create My Picture has seen an increase of avatars being made to look like the likes of Justin Timberlake and Cheryl cole and more.

Hip – hop for over a decade is the world’s best selling genre of music. It has consistently outsold all other genres and names such as Eminem and P.Diddy are global superstar successes.

Beat making software (Version 1.5) of Dubturbo has seen high sales over the Internet lately. The advanced software allows you to make Pro sounding beats. The easy to use software has been big with Hip hop and rap fans and has reached one of the top selling products on digital marketplace Clickbank

The rumour mill never sleeps where the X – Factor is concerned. The latest round of rumours concern not the contestants but the presenter and judges, with three of them looking set to depart these shores for the states.

Hip – hop band, The Black Eyed Peas rose 5 places to claim the UK number 1 in the singles chart. The band, who have in all probability reached the top spot because of their involvement in the talent contest, The X – Factor, leapfrogged favourite Willow Smith, to claim the coveted prize.

The adopted son of the star David Gilmour has been involved in the student riots in London. The 21 year old was pictured controversially swinging off a Union Jack flag attached to the war memorial statue.

Possibly because it taps into our emotions in a way that technology and science, which increasingly inhabit our lives, DO NOT.