Smoking is wrong and illegal. We all know that. So is impersonating Wilfred Bramble from Steptoe and Son. (Sanford and Son if you live in the US). Or at least, it should be. So it’s no surprise Babyshambles frontman, Pete Doherty, recently got chucked out of the Malmaison hotel in Liverpool for doing one of [...]

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New face of the 21st century Agyness Deyn has formed a band, says the NME. They sound brilliant. And when I say brilliant, I mean appalling. “We’ve got three or four songs, we wrote a really cool song at Coachella actually, which was exciting. It’s called Hotel. Well we originally wrote and recorded it [...]

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In today’s Guardian is a story - the format nicked from New York magazine, mag nerds - about what the deputy editor of the NME is wearing these days.
Keen eyed readers will notice that Krissi Murison - good rock name! - is rather attractive. What the hell is going on? During my 19 years in [...]

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The Sex Pistols could be about to record their first new material for 30 years.
“There’s talk of new material,” says drummer Paul Cook. “The only problem is that it’s a bit hard to work on anything as John Lydon and Steve Jones are in America and Glen Matlock and I are in the UK, so [...]

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Today’s NME reveals details of Pete Doherty’s new project: another record.
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His as-yet-untitled solo album is expected to be released in the summer. It’s being produced by Jake Fior, the studio whizz behind For Lovers, the rather good single Doherty released with Wolfman in 2004.
The album is based around a “spine of slower, [...]

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