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British magazine editors working in America who wanted to see Babyshamble Pete Doherty and Dirty Pretty Thing Carl Barat reunite the Libertines and save rock'n'roll won't have to wait much longer. The pair is hard at work on... a musical! Britain's illustrious Donmar Warehouse has commissioned the former bandmates to write a fresh bunch of numbers about the early days of a troubled rock band. Gee, where will they come up with ideas? More »

Until Rum Tum Tugger gets his own comeback show, we're not going to be doing much Broadway coverage. But we were intrigued by this casting call for Stairway To Hell, a new show about "the world's most successful Heavy Metal band." More »

If you loved the John Cusack as indie snob vehicle High Fidelity, but left the theater with a nagging feeling that it lacked a certain Billy Joel-esque willingness to turn Cusack's tortured interior monologues into torturous, plodding songs, you're in luck: High Fidelity: The Musical opens on Broadway this winter. In the spirit of HiFi's incessant listmaking, here's one we'd like to see: Top five bands featured in the movie who were approached about penning music, but wisely decided to run away from the wretched idea on principle. (Somehow, we're thinking that Belle and Sebastian are near the top of that list. Call it a hunch.) More »