Nialler9 — The National Concert Hall will host a Shane MacGowan 60th Birthday Celebration on January 15th next year and a lot of famous people will be in attendance to participate including Shane MacGowan himself and: Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie of Primal ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2003 was in some ways the year everything we knew about pop splintered - Phil Spector's arrest, Michael Jackson's post-Martin Bashir arrest, Britney being kissed by and then duetting with Madonna with the precipice starting to hove into view.... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Velvet HandsFrom: Cornwall, EnglandThe Velvet Hands are redefining the word prolific. Hard on the heels of the explosive Sick of Living (featured on the blog in May New Music To Delight Your Ears - The Velvet Hands ) comes the rowdy, fiery Game... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — The Velvet HandsFrom: St Austell, Cornwall, EnglandSick of Living the new single from boisterous Cornish quartet The Velvet Hands (featured on the blog a couple of times last year, Fresh Sounds 8th May 2016 , Going Underground #53 - Cornwall) comb... more info

Sweeping The Nation — 2004 was a year when things were upturned. Britney got married twice, the first cracks in that impregnable facade, though this was also the year of Toxic so nobody pried too deeply yet. That clearly wasn't something going to be afforded to Pete D... more info

Consequence of Sound — Libertines co-frontman's new solo album isn't offensively bad -- it's offensively boring. more info

Stereogum — The shambling Brit-rock hedonist and occasional Libertines co-leader Pete Doherty, who now goes by Peter, will release his solo album Hamburg Demonstrations next month, and we’ve already posted the impressive first single “I Don’t Love Anyone (... more info

The Mirror — The Libertines frontman was performing as the venue reopened following 2015's horrific tragedy more info

Consequence of Sound — In which the frontman is turned into a pretty painting. more info

Stereogum — Pete Doherty, notorious trainwreck and occasional Libertines co-leader, is apparently going by Peter now, and he’s got a new solo album called Hamburg Demonstrations coming out before the end of the year. It lead single is the jangly, surprisingly ... more info