The opposite is true for Shotter’s Nation – there’s a forced orderliness to everything. Doherty doesn’t mark up the margins or writhe beneath the 4/4; he politely knocks before he enters each track. Then the band lumps all sorts of footnotes and interpolations into the songs and it all sounds too smart and witty, not haphazardly ingenious like the whistle-to-full-band crescendo on Albion’s “Sticks and Stones.” more ›

Mel Brooks strings together one liners the way that Pete Doherty strings together lines. And that's no joke. The famed writer and director from Brooklyn presents as a classic comedic triple threat: brash, brilliant and more than a little Jew-y. (Mel, it's good to be the king!) more ›

Hailing from Scotland, and pursuing melodious, riff friendly pop-rock, popup is coming to town for our beloved SXSW music festival. Their latest single, “Chinese Burn” has been blazing feverishly on our playlists lately but we would like to stop short in trying to sell them as the next big thing from across the pond, especially since NME (Issue dated 27.1.07) recently stated that Babyshambles would like popup to tour with them. And having Pete... more ›

• We know all you 12-year-olds like to see the girl-on-girl action. And we're thinking that Batwoman will certainly help facilitate any one-handed reading, especially with her resurrection as a lesbian by DC Comics.
• Former Libertines singer Pete Doherty was searched on suspicion of drug posession at a Barcelona airport on Thursday, but the search turned up...nothing. Go figure.
• The Stanley Cup Finals are upon us, with Carolina and Edmonton duking it out for the win. Let's have a pint for the Oiler's fans- God knows they aren't getting any.
• Our favorite Guess Jeans model Playboy playmate gold digger Anna Nicole Smith is expecting.
  
  
• Katherine Smith always gets her way. The 18-year old is being accused of spiking a peer's drink with bleach because she wanted, not just any role, but the lead role in a school play.
• AMD is stepping up to the plate. The chip-maker is launching a new laptop chip that, among other things, will prolong battery life.
• Some Dutch pedophiles are launching their own political party. On their agenda: reduce the legal age to have sex from 16 to 12 or just get rid of it completely, permissable child pornography, pornography on daytime TV and, of course, beastiality. We'd call in sick to work to watch those "soaps". more ›

Lately, the music industry has been making more moves than a blog editor at a GLO show. Here's a run down on everything you need to fuel your hatred of corporate music and Nashville. If you don’t hate Music City, move there, it took us exactly six hours to develop a serious loathing we allowed to fester for six years. James Blunt, unsurprisingly called Blunt the C*nt by his sassy British friends, became the... more ›