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Chaotic rock star Pete Doherty has said he will move in with Shane McGowan after his most recent stint in rehab. The Babyshambles frontman is undergoing yet another legally enforced attempt to kick his addictions to heroin and crack cocaine. When he comes out of rehab, however, he will have nowhere to live and will therefore move in with the wild-living Pogues singer Shane McGowan above North London rock ‘n’ roll haunt the Boogaloo Bar. Babyshambles’ new album Shotters Nation, which has received positive reviews, will be released in the U.K. on October 1.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chrissie Hynde and Jerry Lee Lewis performed at a concert to benefit a local theater and celebrate the upcoming opening of Hynde’s vegetarian restaurant. Hynde, an Akron native and the lead singer of The Pretenders, presided over a weekend-long celebration of VegiTerranean, her eatery that will feature a blend of Mediterranean and vegetarian cuisine when it opens here in October. The events started with a Friday night acoustic performance, continued Saturday afternoon with the restaurant’s ribbon-cutting ceremony and ended Saturday night with the concert. Hynde handed out bean salsa and other hors d’oeuvres… Read more »

Hilly Kristal, the founder of New York punk rock club CBGB, which helped make the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads stars, has died at age 75, his daughter said on Wednesday. Kristal died on Tuesday from complications of lung cancer, his daughter, Lisa Kristal Burgman, said. He founded the club in 1973 hoping to showcase country music, calling it CBGB & OMFUG, for “Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers.” But the club drew few country acts and instead became a breeding ground for punk rock, playing host to the likes of Patti Smith, Television, Living Colour as… Read more »

Hey, did you hear about that collaboration between Ashlee Simpson, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump and Cobra Starship keytar player Victoria Asher? Yeah, they totally got together for a slinky little synth number called “Black and Light,” which Asher made available for download on her MySpace page earlier this week.”I recorded keys, Patrick Stump recorded the bass and drums with MIDI and Ashlee Simpson helped me with some of the lyrics,” she wrote in a blog entry about the song. “All and all pretty collaborative. It’s short, a bit dark … and yet a bit dancey.” It seemed like a… Read more »

Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello will hit the road for a 13-date fall tour of the East Coast, kicking off on September 22 in Duluth, Ga. and wrapping October 9 in Rochester, N.Y. Dylan is currently touring Australia and New Zealand, and will also perform September 16 at the Austin City Limits festival in Texas. A complete list of the tour dates can be seen via BobDylan.com.

Against Me! have released the “Thrash Unreal” EP on iTunes. The EP features the video for the band’s current single “Thrash Unreal” and completely new acoustic versions of “New Wave” and “Animal.” Currently, the EP is available for purchase here. Against Me! will kick off a U.S. tour on September 4th in Poughkeepsie, NY with Matt & Kim and David Dondero. The band will be out in support of their new album, New Wave, in stores now. Scheduled dates can be found below. Catch Against Me! On Tour: September 4th Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance September 5th Brooklyn, NY –… Read more »

In 2004, U.K.-based independent label Memphis Industries released the sample-heavy, intentionally lo-fi and daringly jarring “Thunder, Lightning, Strike,” the Go! Team’s debut full-length CD. The buzz was deafening, so in 2005, the label entered a joint venture with Sony BMG to distribute the album internationally, with the major’s Columbia subsidiary handling it in the United States. It’s a turn of events that every band dreams of — unless that band is the Go! Team. The brainchild of Ian Parton, the Go! Team was never supposed to be mainstream. Parton set out to make “dirty” pop songs — danceable, catchy tunes… Read more »

New York-based buzz band Just Surrender are set to release their second full-length album, “We’re In Like Sin,” through Broken English Records on August 21st. The highly-anticipated record was produced by John Naclerio (My Chemical Romance, Brand New, Senses Fail, Armor For Sleep) and delivers 11 hook-filled tracks. In celebration of the release, Fuse TV will be hosting a listening party for “We’re In Like Sin” on “The Worm” (www.fuse.tv/theworm). The full-album stream will launch at 3 pm EST on August 14th and run up until the August 21st release date. With over one million plays on both their PureVolume… Read more »

The Cure’s 14th studio record has been postponed for a second time and will not hit stores until next spring, the band’s record company said on Thursday. “The album got pushed to 2008, more like an April/May release. Robert is still recording,” a Geffen Records spokeswoman said from New York, referring to the band’s frontman Robert Smith. Smith told Reuters in an interview late last year that he was struggling to come up with lyrics to some of the 33 new songs he and the band had recorded. The new album was originally slated to be released in May this… Read more »