Guardian Music — Sales figures suggest alternative rock is in a dismal place right now. Will it ever recover? And should we care?This year's Brit awards will be a melancholy experience for indie rock fans. The genre's big live performers will be Blur and Noel Gallagh... more info

ContactMusic — British rocker Pete Doherty has posed for a controversial photoshoot depicting him eating syringes The former Libertines frontman has battled an addiction to heroin and crack cocaine for almost 10 years and his drug-fuelled antics have frequently spa... more info

411 Mania — Right in the face... more info

Guardian Music — Produced by Alex Kapranos, this promising lot operate a hair's breadth from Franz Ferdinand's funkily acerbic styleHometown: London.The lineup: Martyn, Thom, Tom, Lawrence, Mike.The background: They're evidently running out of band names. There's jus... more info

ContactMusic — The ghost of Amy Winehouse is haunting the London home of rocker Pete Doherty leading the former Libertines man to flee to Paris The 32-year-old has told friends he can no longer live in the pad after seeing the late star three of four times since he... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Pete Doherty has reportedly claimed that the ghost of his late pal Amy Winehouse is haunting his London flat. According to The Sun, the former Libertines frontman has fled his home for Paris, after... more info

NME — Carl Barat and John Hassall give Q&A talk at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival more info

ContactMusic — Rocker Pete Dohertys young son is already showing a performance streak - and hes even written to Wes Craven accusing the moviemaker of copying one of his film ideas The former Libertines frontman is dad to eight-year-old Astile by singer Lisa Moorish... more info

Guardian Music — When his brothers formed British Sea Power, Roy Wilkinson became band manager and their dad became their No 1 fan. But his zealotry was overpowering, and finally Roy had to choose between rock and fatherhoodAs my father neared his 80th birthday, he f... more info

NME — But the bassist insists that the Welsh rockers aren't splitting up just yet more info