Peter Doherty has joined the line up for Camden Rocks, a new festival that will take place across four venues in the London borough this summer. The event on June 6 already features previously reported headliner and Doherty's former Libertines band mate, Carl Barat. Read more >>

A judge has gone against James Brown's last will and testament and ordered half of his estate to be given to charity. The star, who died agd 73 on Christmas Day in 2006, dictated in his will that his assets should be divided up between his six adult children. Read more >>

Lady Sovereign is having an eventful US tour with shows being pulled after a couple of songs and on stage rants becoming the norm. The pint sized rapper already ended a show early in Seattle last week (May 21) and at the weekend another gig in San Francisco went by the wayside. Read more >>

Meg White has married her partner Jackson Smith in a ceremony held in the back garden of Jack White's home. The ceremony took place last Friday (May 22) at the Nashville property and was a double header with Dead Weather and Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence also getting married to his long-term girlfriend Jo McCaughey. Read more >>

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda has promised fans a genre-breaking new album saying that the band hope it will be something “really cutting edge and really different. The band are currently half way through writing the follow up to 2007's 'Minutes To Midnight' and plan for a release in early 2010. Read more >>

Nicky Wire has promised fans he will continue with the current Manic Street Preachers tour despite going into spasm while on stage in Llandudno last night (May 26). The Welsh band were play the town's Cymru Arena when Wire was hit by the spasm but managed to carry on the set. Read more >>

Morrissey has been forced to cancel the first of three concerts at London's Brixton Academy. The gig had been due to take place tomorrow (May 28), but has been called off to ensure the singer's "complete recuperation" from a throat problem. Read more >>

Little Boots and The Maccabees have been added to this year's Oxegen festival line up in Dublin. Other new additions to the bill include Spinnerette, The Hours, Passion Pit and Hockey. Read more >>

Jay-Z told Kanye West to remove all traces of auto-tune from his new album, 'Blueprint 3', it has emerged. West, who produced the record, told MTV Jay-Z wanted the album to be “an anti auto-tune” release. Read more >>

Jack Penate has been added to the line up for iTunes Live in London. The singer, who releases new album 'Everything Is New' on June 22, will play Camden's Roundhouse on July 3. Read more >>

Eminem has topped the US Billboard album chart with his first new studio effort in five years, 'Relapse'. The album, which is currently number one in the UK, sold 608,000 copies in its opening week. Read more >>

Jamie T has unveiled a new run of UK tour dates to support a forthcoming EP. 'Sticks And Stones EP', released on June 29, is the precursor to the Londoner's follow-up to his 2007 debut album 'Panic Prevention'. Read more >>

Chris Brown has spoken out about his alleged attack on ex-girlfriend Rihanna to assure fans he's "not a monster". The singer is facing charges of felony assault and making criminal threats in relation to his well-publicised altercation with Rihanna in Los Angeles on February 8, which reportedly left his ex-girlfriend battered and bruised. Read more >>