It's not all water under the bridge between rap superstar Jay-Z and Oasis' very own King Of The Rhyming Dictionary Noel Gallagher, with Jay-Z obviously still sore about Noel's comments back in April that booking Jay-Z as the headliner for a guitar-based festival (?) like Glastonbury was 'wrong'.

Although Jay-Z had a cheeky pop at Noel Gallagher during his time onstage at Glasto (starting his set with his own rendition of Wonderwall), it's obviously not enough to make him feel like he's come out a winner in this feud. So he's had another bash at Noel during a concert at Madison Square Garden.

"That bloke from Oasis said I couldn't play guitar Somebody should have told him I'm a fucking rockstar!"

Your move, Gallagher.

The reviews are in from this past weekend's Glastonbury Festival, and while the Herald Sun would have you believe it was all about Gabriella Cilmi, it seems that expat and big mouth Sam Sparro was in particularly good favour with the Brits.

He was also on the bill at the legendary music fest, and here's what The Guardian's Alex Needham had to say about his festival slot (ooh err!):

Dress code: Sam Sparro is wearing a frankly outrageous ensemble consisting of skin-tight black and gold (geddit?) diagonally striped leather trousers and a multi-coloured vest. His three backing singers, meanwhile, wear tops bearing the letters "S.A.M."

In a nutshell: Sam Sparro is in ebullient form having scored one of the year's biggest hits with Black and Gold, and has the audience eating out of his hand. Easily engaging with a crowd that spills out of the dance tent, he mixes his own material with house classics in an exuberant set which perks up Sunday evening at a point where many might be starting to flag.

He scored 8 out of 10 on the Guardian's Glasto scorecard; given that Jay-Z copped 9 out of 10 and current indie darlings MGMT got only 6 out of 10, that's a pretty good result for Sparro.

Because, you know, our press only really care about Aussie expats once they've been bigged-up overseas.

After the last few weeks it's almost a surprise to remember that Amy Winehouse is in fact a recording artist who occasionally does live performances, and over the weekend she's done two of them, bless her.

First she appeared at the London concert celebrating Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday, and then at Glastonbury Festival.

And while the press and blogosphere has her punching fans and causing a ruckus (and good on old Michael "Glastonbury" Eavis for defending her, saying, "The man deserved it. He grabbed Amy's breasts as she went past him"), the performances were... well, considering only a few days earlier she was flat on her back in hospital, they were actually pretty good. Hop over the jump to watch Winegums in action at Hyde Park and Glastonbury respectively and see for yourself.

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After apparently fluking The Verve's Urban Hymns, Richard Ashcroft has continually shown himself to be a tool of astronomical proportions and questionable talent (we should know, we couldn't give his solo stuff away on eBay), and his latest outburst is no exception.

Apparently, according to Dicky, all these Boyzone, Take That, Spice Girls and Led Zeppelin reformations can pale into insignificance with the news that The Verve are getting back together - and he thinks they should be given an appropriately large celebratory return performance.

The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft wants the band to headline Glastonbury 2008.

The star insisted it would be a "travesty" if they didn't take centre stage at the event - though the recently-reformed band faces serious competition for one of the coveted slots.

Speaking to XFM, Ashcroft said: "I think it would be a travesty if we didn't. Because I think what's missing from a lot of the headliners is we're one of the few bands that can jam without sounding like Lynyrd Skynyrd on a bad night, so we can actually take people on a proper journey, rock 'n' roll-wise."

Oooh, Richard, you do not want to incur the wrath of the Skynyrd fans - we've seen them, and they are not pretty (and some of them keep axes and rifles as "pets").

And beyond that, how about a nice, steaming cup of shut the fuck up? The fact that he thinks a protracted jam session is the mark of a good band is indicative of his skewed view of "the biz".

All of this reminds us of one of our favourite negative reviews of all time, on the topic of Ashcroft's solo effort, Keys To The World: "In Richard's head he no doubt thinks he's made an album that stands up with the greatest rock records of our time. We can concur with part of that statement. Richard Ashcroft has made an album."