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Talk about bizarre 10th birthday bashes. No cake and ice cream, no musical chairs or pass-the-parcel. Instead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs celebrated a decade since the release of their debut album, 2003's Fever To Tell, by unveiling the disturbingly bonkers artwork for their new LP Mosquito: a grotesque cartoonish image of a giant, blood-sucking insect terrorising a hapless toddler.

It's very 2013 – stick your album up on the internet without prior warning and watch the cash roll in. So how come Jai Paul's surprise debut is the music mystery of the year?

Veteran boy band Blue were by far the best thing about The Big Reunion, the recent fly-on-the-wall TV reality series that invited pop groups of yesteryear to reform and look back on just where it all went right and wrong.

The bassist for rock band Deftones, Chi Cheng, died at the weekend. He was 42 years old.

Before Adele, Leona Lewis or even Amy Winehouse came along, Dido was the queen of British pop.

Lord Cowell has swung the axe and Tulisa's head has been lopped off. Figuratively anyway – he's not that evil. What's certain is there's at least one space going on the X Factor panel and this is why Noel Gallagher should fill it.