The Starkers are a fresh indie rock trio of musicians joined together to bring a new sharp edge to music. The band is from Swindon and is preparing for their first gig on June 9th in their hometown. 1. Hello The Starkers, tell us all about yourselves and how you got together. Toryn: Well weve all been in different various bands before and known each other for a while through friends of friends. I contacted Callum (drums) about starting a little project and he was keen and up for it so we started throwing ideas at each other.. well not ...

"Ladylike," a painting done by Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty using their own blood as a material, was unveiled by the former The Libertines frontman Doherty at an exhibition earlier this year and now it's up for the highest bid at an auction of his items. The item will go on the block this week. A

With the London indie scene gradually moving eastwards toward Stoke Newington, Old Street and Whoreditch, the idea of a crawl around Camden is starting to feel a little antiquated. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the festival’s days are numbered, granted attendance seems a little down on previous years and the line-up didn’t have any killer “I HAVE to go and see that” acts playing; a Florence, a Mobile Disco, a SBTRK even. Actress were this year’s hot ticket but with set times being switched and many gigs not on at the time advertised it became harder ...

Where have all the outsiders gone? The savants, the nut jobs, the angel-headed hipsters fit to burn the heavenly cosmos of night? All are sadly lacking in the UK right now, with chequebook indie and dollar sign Grime bulldozing the fragile archicture of our pop heritage. Sometimes it feels like only a few genuine, bona fide outsiders are left. Luke Haines , therefore, is an endangered species. Creative lynchpin for The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder, his new book 'Post Everything: Outsider Rock & Roll' seems to profile the music industry just as the post-Millennial malaise set in. ClashMusic caught up with Luke Haines to define the fall of the outsider... - - - You’re obviously looking back on your own work now, do you see yourself sitting in a tradion of outsiders running through British pop music? Yes, absolutely. I’m not comparing myself, but people like John Cale, Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers, especially those kind of people on Harvest Records maybe in the early ‘70s - which was a bizarre kind of setup where by people were seemingly allowed to do whatever the hell they like and there didn’t seem to be that much interest into taking off into the mainstream. In a way Hut Records was a bit like that with me, because I was very much shielded from the accountants. I think I’m one of the few people in rock ‘n’ roll to have an A&R; man who actually let me do what I wanted to. Remember, I was on Hut for 10 years ...

For an indie band once considered peers of the Libertines, The Cribs are unusually consistent, and this, their fifth album, [...]

The Libertines, 'Time For Heroes'

Former frontman of The Libertines, Pete Doherty has 12 new songs ready for his next LP. It has been three years since the Libertines/Babyshambles [...]

An awesome album name. That’s all it took for me to get hooked on The Vaccines with their infectious, impressive debut, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Immediately, the title reminded me of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (which is one of my favorite albums of all time) and as a result I became drawn to this band. As you can tell, my music tastes are quite diverse and extremely eclectic with what I want to write about. As a result, it’s difficult deciding what bands to discuss. Sometimes to my surprise there ...

It's 2004, and I'm 15. At the London comprehensive time forgot, I’m either into rap and hip-hop (whereby I’m cool), or I’m a “rockhead”- a slim-jeaned ponce with a taste for punks, piercings and the odd good grade. [...] Read more!

It was at Gatwick Airport some 14 months ago when catching the connecting flight to Glasgow have arrived overnight from Florida. I was tired and jet-lagged and a bit grumpy. I noticed that a new edition of Q was out on the shelf, and I picked it up to have a look at what they had listed as their '50 Ultimate British Songs'. But before I got to that, I noticed from the index that there was also an in-depth feature on Edwyn Collins , so this was the first thing I turned to. I had a quick glance over it ...

Some of you may know Didz Hammond as the former bassist and unofficial spokesman for The Cooper Temple Clause, and many of you may be aware that when he departed the band, he joined Carl from The Libertines' band, Pretty Things">Dirty Pretty Things. So, we thought, who better to send along to review a new... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

On Saturday night I broke my abstinence from live music events by going to No Monster Club's launch of their new indie-pop album  Dublin. They were supported by a google-proof band called "the #1s" who I missed, and the fine Big Monster Love (no relation, named before them) who played some of his intimate songs that contemplate life from a sideways, slightly wonder-struck perspective. The gig, like so many these days, was not in a licensed venue, but one of those artists' 'spaces' that might have been an old shop premises or, in this case, as my friend Fergal ...

Pete Doherty has said that The Libertines definitely have a future as a band. Speaking to NME, the Babyshambles man said that he had recently seen fellow Libertines frontman Carl Barat and had taken him to his art exhibition in Camden, London. He...

En una entrevista para la revista NME, Pete Doherty ha confesado que el regreso de The Libertines podría estar cerca. Al ser preguntado sobre si la formación tiene futuro, él contestó que sí, que tiene ‘un futuro en el que nos reuniremos y haremos buena música’. Al parecer, el también líder de Babyshambles, se ha reunido en Londres con el vocalista de los Libertines, Carl Barat, con el que ha intercambiado ideas para nuevas canciones. ‘Se llevó algunas de mis ideas para añadir algunos riffs’, dice Doherty, ‘me dijo que...

He stresses that The Libertines 'have never not been a band'