Who knows why the Black Keys have got it in for Carl Barat? After telling the Guardian last year that they’d like to ‘punch him in the face’ for ‘looking like a prick’, the band have been dishing out more unsolicited grief to Bazza. Drummer Patrick Carney, speaking to The Fly magazine yesterday, brought up the ex Libertine once more- “Guys like that Carl Barât motherfucker, I’m sure he doesn’t have a sense of humour.” Carney said  “He seems like a prick. He should be worried.” That’s twice in two interviews... Why Carney – currently doing pretty ...

With their ‘Flesh & Bones’ EP receiving plays on Radio 1 this January, a UK tour announced for February along with a string of high profile fans including Carl Barât and Mumford and Sons, 2012 is shaping up to be an exciting year for two lads from across the Irish Sea....

Blues two piece The Black Keys have admitted they loathe artists who care about their image. The blues comes with certain associations. Blue collar, working class, tough are all phrases you could lay at the door of the 12 bar. However 'fashionable' has never really been a part of the blues singer's vocabulary. The Black Keys are no exception. The band's stripped down anti-image involves albums with no cover art and videos where nothing happens - the last thing on their mind is coordinating an art director with a stylist. Speaking to The Guardian , The Black Keys were probed ...

Indie handbags at the ready! Blustering blues duo The Black Keys have been dishing out the invective to former Libertine, and general chap about town Carl Barat. In this interview with the Guardian , Black Keys singer Dan Auerbach laid it on the line- "We've just so never given a shit about image, and generally hate people who do...There's nobody (drummer Pat Carney) wants to punch in the face more than Carl Barât, you know." When pressed on this point Carney added that he'd "been making fun of Carl Barât all day. He looks like a prick ...

Borja Duñó entrevistó en Barcelona a Carl Barât, ex The Libertines y protagonista de “The Libertines. There are no innocent bystanders“, filme de Roger Sargent que –les adelantamos- se exhibirá en la versión 2011 del Festival In-Edit Nescafé. La entrevista llega a ustedes gracias a un ejercicio conjunto entre nuestra colaboradora infiltrada Macarena Lavín y [...]

Decía Carl Barât de The Libertines, hace solo unos días durante la presentación en el In-Edit 2011 del documental The Libertines: There Are No Innocent Bystanders, que no tenían ni idea de cómo iba a reaccionar el público ante su pequeña gira de reunión de 2010 (en la que, por cierto, confirmó que debían haber [...]

Tipps für eine Woche voller besserer Musik. Dieses Mal mit dem Licht am Ende des Sommerlochs. Montag, 12. September Die Möglichkeit einer Libertines-Reunion wurde im August von Carl Barât während etlichen Interviews dementiert. Solo gibt es ihn, obschon leider nur halb so spannend, trotzdem noch, am Montag in L’Usine zu Genf.     Dienstag, 13. [...]

Tipps für eine Woche voller besserer Musik. Dieses Mal mit dem Licht am Ende des Sommerlochs. Montag, 12. September Die Möglichkeit einer Libertines-Reunion wurde im August von Carl Barât während etlichen Interviews dementiert. Solo gibt es ihn, obschon leider nur halb so spannend, trotzdem noch, am Montag in L’Usine zu Genf.     Dienstag, 13. [...]

WHAT: Latitude WHEN: July 14-17 WHERE: Suffolk, England WHO: The National, My Morning Jacket, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Lykke Li, Caribou, Deerhunter, the Walkmen, James Blake, Cat's Eyes, Gold Panda, Jenny and Johnny, Glasser, Esben and the Witch, Foals, Os Mutantes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Suede, the Cribs, Glasvegas, Kele, Avi Buffalo, Anna Calvi, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Crocodiles, Edwyn Collins, OMD, Wanda Jackson, When Saints Go Machine, Mazes, the Vaccines, Fool's Gold, Carl Barât, Steve Mason, Still Corners WHAT: Festival Internacional de Benicassim WHEN: July 14-17 WHERE: Benicassim, Spain WHO: Fire">Arcade Fire, Portishead, the Strokes, Arctic ...

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As the interweb fusses and feuds over the streaming of the new Gaga LP , one little piece of news went far from unnoticed amidst the general hubbub, and that news was and is that His Purpleness, Prince , yes Prince, is to join the likes of the Eagles , Ferry">Bryan Ferry , Morrissey , Lou Reed , Patti Smith , Iggy & The Stooges  and a slew of other timeless acts that read like something of a musical encyclopaedia of the past few decades at this year's Hop Farm Festival . Vince Power has been delivering staggering weekends in the sun for a couple of seasons ...

Adam Ant, Carl Barât, Cloud Control, Grouplove and The Walkmen have been added to the line-up for this years Latitude Festival. Further details on the Latitude Festival can be found here .

When a band member made a solo album, it used to signal the death of the group. But is it actually a mark of rude health? Time was, if a band's vocalist put out a solo album it meant only one thing: irreconcilable differences, singer and guitarist chewing each other's throats out over who slept with who's girlfriend, the beginning of the end of the band. Lennon released his first Plastic Ono Band single in August 1969 and the Beatles were toast within the year. Phil Collins and Ferry">Bryan Ferry snuck off from their Genesis and ...

The following artists have been added to this year's Latitude Festival (14th - 17th July 2011, Henham Park Estate, Southwold, Suffolk) lineup: Adam Ant Carl Barât Cloud Control Grouplove The Walkmen For more info on the festival, please head to www.latitudefestival.co.uk

'There And No Innocent Bystanders', a new film chronicling The Libertines’ past, present and future, premiered in London last week. Matt Wilkinson finds out why it has left the band speechless Sitting in a room a few doors down from Pete Doherty’s favourite central London hangout Jazz After Dark are five people, all staring at Carl Barât’s 30 foot-wide forehead. “Make sure we get the lighting right on that,” says one. Filmmaker and photographer Roger Sargent has been locked in darkened rooms like this for the best part of four months now, tweaking and honing his new feature-length ...