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flickers of hope?

Amy Winehouse May Go Back To Two-Tone On Her Next Album

Rolling Stone sent a writer to tag after the ever-troubled Amy Winehouse earlier this month, and after an early-morning vigil outside the singer's door, Claire Hoffman was invited inside, where she was greeted by the news of Winehouse's racist singalong, along with "discarded bags of potato chips, crumpled nuggets of tinfoil, beer bottles, lingerie boxes and scattered old credit cards." "Up All Night With Amy Winehouse" is full of grimy details on Winehouse's current existence, with the phrase "black resin" being used to describe the lining of her fingernails twice. But in some heartening news, it does actually have Winehouse discussing how she'd like to proceed with her next record, although some of those plans are communicated via hip-shakes and finger-wiggles. More »

1:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,062 views, 8 comments

Latest by Stafford: I hate to do this, but its generally spelled "2-tone." Sorry that's been buggin' me. My teenage Oi! days were bubblin. more »

the new new model

Private Parties The Newest Way For Musicians To Make Up Lost CD-Sale Revenue

The freshly engaged M.I.A. spent 30 minutes Sunday night entertaining the crowd at an afterparty for the MTV Movie Awards, and during her set she let drop that she was getting paid $100,000 for the appearance. ("I'm going to use it to build schools in Liberia," she told the crowd, which included such Perez-ready names as Rumer Willis. "It costs ~~$2,000~~ $52,000 to build a school for 1,000.") She's not alone in getting big cash by playing for the elite: earlier Sunday, the Times of London theorized that big-money private concerts are to this year what big-ticket reunion shows were to 2007: A way to make a large payday in the face of declining record sales, and not just for "legacy" acts like Whitney Houston who can show up and run through their catalog. Current groups and acts that fall under the ever-more-meaningless rubric of "indie" are also cashing in by playing backyards and hotel ballrooms. More »

9:30 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
787 views, 19 comments

Latest by CortneyH: MIA has only sold 214,000 records for Interscope, and yet she gets $100k to play one party. And the record label doesn't see a dime of it. I used to think it was a mistake for indie artists to get in more »

burning questions

Is Winemouse Worse Than 2 Girls, 1 Cup?

Amy Winehouse actually did something semi-music-related this weekend, when the above clip—of her plonking away on a guitar and mewling backing vocals while her goddaughter pretty capably sang Alicia Keys' "If I Ain't Got You"—was posted to Pete Doherty's very active YouTube channel. But of course, it was another clip on Doherty's video blog, titled "winemouse," that got most of the attention and made me wonder one thing: How low could the Internet go?

1:30 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,457 views, 10 comments

Latest by Chris Molanphy: @Maura Johnston: Yeah, Al's right - "Ain't" was the Energizer Bunny of Alicia Keys singles. Never as massive as "Fallin'" or "No One" but hung around the charts forever, and it's become probably the most reliable "gold" track for buppie-R&B more »

broadway dreams

The Libertines Are Back And Writing A Musical

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 »

10:15 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Pete Doherty has been sentenced to jail for 14 weeks for violating probation after getting caught with drugs in October. They're saying he'll probably only serve a month, and I know there's some kind of Dohertorium around here. But whatevs to that stab at dignity: I just want to celebrate the faint possibility of seven issues of Rolling Stone without a photo of the guy. [BBC]

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i am curious (pasty)

Pete Doherty May Show His Ass In Public (Literally)

Despite all the crack and littering busts, Pete Doherty's greatest crime may be just around the corner: Tapes of the corpse-y Babyshambles frontman/junkie and ex-girlfriend Kate Moss apparently having the palest, boniest sex in history are missing, and Moss worries they may be leaked to the internet. An anonymous informant (no Deep Throat jokes, please) has told the U.K.'s Sun that out of the eight tapes (!) the couple made of their drug-fueled rutting, two are "missing." Now this is probably just the moaning of a nervous ex-girlfriend, but it's also the first time in history that I'm hoping a celebrity sex tape actually stays off the net. Unless Doherty pilots a boat (or maybe one of those double-decker buses) with his wang, of course.

Kate Moss Sex Video Might Become Leaked on the Internet [Exposay]

2:30 PM on Mon Jul 23 2007
By jharv
1,655 views, 7 comments

Latest by MJ: *sighs* I guess you didn't inherit the Dohertorium from previous Idolators... more »

So what's the more ridiculous item in this story: Perpetual junkie fuckup Pete Doherty arrested for littering? Or Shaun friggin' Ryder claiming that Amy Winehouse can out-drink him? Shane MacGowan not available for quote at press time. [Guardian]

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libertines

Pete Doherty Reminds People Why They Cared About Him In The First Place

For one brief moment, we are lifting our Dohertorium to note that the Libertines reunited last night in London. NME has a blog dedicated to the performance, which they're covering with its usual 14-year-old-girl-at-a-poetry-slam zeal ("With 'Can't Stand Me Now' echoing out through the dark, dank streets surrounding London's Hackney Empire, a thousand salty eyed fans head off to their beds. Or the nearest watering hole...") Shaky footage can be found here, and you can expect plenty more blog-wide coverage throughout the day—especially in the U.K., where this is the biggest thing to happen since Fancy A Wafer, Love? went off the air.

8:56 AM on Fri Apr 13 2007
By Brian Raftery
378 views, 9 comments

Latest by Bazooka Tooth: WRT your headline: no cared about this douche in the first place. except for english music journalists with bad tatste in music. more »

pete doherty

Despite Our Long-Standing Dohertorium, A Brief Injection Of Pete

As any loyal reader knows, we try to avoid Pete Doherty like the plague, as his case is just too sad-sacky for even us. But we are breaking our Dohertorium for one day and one day only, thanks to this Sun footage of the singer shooting up in a Thai hotel, which will no doubt be forwarded to you five times this morning. It's the high standard in new lows: Doherty may be a shameless drug fiend, but his behavior is only slightly more revolting than that of the British media, whose members giddily put his every meltdown on display, and then sanctimoniously claim that they're just trying to warn the public of the dangers of drug abuse (and yes, pot calling kettle, etc.) Watch if you want, but the unsettling ickiness will stick with you for hours—as will that damn Gorillaz tune that's playing in the background. More »

8:36 AM on Wed Jan 31 2007
By Brian Raftery
80 views, 2 comments

Latest by taylorklong: just another reason why the dude is on my office death pool list. more »

pete doherty

Our Long-Standing Dohertorium: Yes, It's Still On

We know, we know: The poophead in the pork-pie hat did something stupid over the weekend—something involving a smokeable form of cocaine and a Jaguar. And once again, we're going to completely ignore it, because the guy's got enough attention as it is, and all the Monday-morning quartercracking in the world is going to make that Babyshambles CD any better (besides, we already have one British auto-addict to worry about). More »

3:24 PM on Mon Nov 20 2006
By Brian Raftery
74 views, 7 comments

pete doherty

Pete Doherty Finally Does Something Newsworthy

At this point, not even we have the heart to make light of Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty's life-long romance with the dark stuff. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to seven counts of possession, including cocaine, heroin and marijuana; he's scheduled to appear in court again today (which will likely throw a wrinkle in his supposed wedding to Kate Moss this weekend). This is just one of several drug-related arrests in 2006, and so far, Doherty's been punished with rehab and some fines. One judge even noted his "positive progress," which must be British slang for, "At least he's not smoking heroin in front of the press anymore." More »

10:06 AM on Fri Aug 18 2006
By Brian Raftery
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YET ANOTHER SAD DAY FOR PETE DOHERTY

Sniff.

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"In Rainbows" Turns One: Where Are We Now?

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