Rage Against The Machine campaign for Christmas No. 1?

Has it come to this? Seriously?

A RATM Facebook group is urging fans to buy the band's Killing In The Name on the day the X-Factor winner's single is available.

Honest attempt by fans to bedunk the Cowell corporate machine? Or just trying to get a radio-unfriendly song to number one for Christmas?

It seems like the band are not behind this but they will profit from download sales. RATM certainly wouldn't agree with this fight fire with fire approach.

Read all about it on the NME website.

BBC 'Queens Of Pop'

This article is so ridiculous I just had to post it.

It takes three new female artists: Florence And The Machine, La Roux and Little Boots and presents them at pie charts (yes pie charts) as apparently they are just bits of other artists, typically from the 80s.