If you're a Muse or My Chemical Romance fan, I feel sorta bad for you, but today's your lucky day: The bands are headlining this summer's Reading & Leeds Festivals. The (not so) resurgent Strokes and…   Read Story »

The 2010 bill-sharing Reading & Leeds Festivals, scheduled for 8/27-29 in those respective cities, will feature Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink-182 as headliners, along with QOTSA, Paramore,…   Read Story »

How do you followup singing the far-right leaning first section of "Das Deutschlandlied" at a German festival? "British musician Pete Doherty was fined on Wednesday for walking into a court with 13…   Read Story »

Doherty, whose mom is of Jewish descent, was dragged off stage in Munich this past weekend by on3-radio festival organizers after he tore into the first stanza of "Das Deutschlandlied," Nazi…   Read Story »

With Pete Doherty? We won't hold our breath, but Babyshambles' drummer tells NME, "Lee [Mavers] said he's got loads of songs written and he'd like us to get involved."   Read Story »

Doherty's boys are not welcome at Westbury's Moonfest after British intelligence officials offered this detailed analysis of the band's effect on audiences: "They speed up and then slow down the…   Read Story »

Last night the New Music Express held their annual Shockwaves Awards and gave repeated thumbs up to the usual suspects like Arctic Monkeys (three times over: Best Band, Track, Video), the Killers…   Read Story »

For the video accompanying catchy, if unremarkable "You Talk," the Babyshambles boys hang out in shadowy and smoky sausage parties and a sylvan setting. At one point Pete's flat on his back, of…   Read Story »

Last night our European brethren were subjected to the shitshow that is an MTV Awards telecast. The taping was in Munich, Germany and featured Justin Timberlake being shut out (despite walking in…   Read Story »

That Pete's full of surprises: scoring goals, cracking up his kitty, still turning out pretty good tunes. Tunes? Right, he's a songwriter -- and from what we've heard of Shotter's Nation, the kid's…   Read Story »