Music News

• Florence's exploding machine

  Florence and the Machine has warned people may ''explode'' during her MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) performance on Sunday night in Los Angeles .

• Scissor Sisters 'too gay'

  Scissor Sisters thought they were ''too weird and too gay'' for mainstream success.

• Quincy Jones kicked into touch

  Michael Jackson fired Quincy Jones because he thought the producer was out of touch for liking rap music.

• Keane and Killers' desolation

  Members of Keane, the Killers and Mumford and Sons worked together on new album 'Mt. Desolation', which has been described as a 'country' album.

• The Ting Tings' Berlin confusion

  The Ting Tings wondered ''what the f**k are we doing here?'' when they first got to Berlin to record their second album.