Video: The Libertines - Time For Heroes

Filed under: News Simone Joyner/WireImage.com Could the Libertines be ready to take one more crack at loving and hating each other professionally? The implosion of the British band back in 2004 was hardly a shock considering the public love/hate relationship between dual frontmen Pete Doherty and Carl Barat , so no one had high hopes for their brief reunion last year. But Barat posting a friendly pic of himself with Doherty [...]

After 4 or 5 years of false starts, The Libertines are finally getting back together. At least for a couple of shows that is. Carl Barat and Pete Doherty will once again share a stage with each other, and of course Hassell and Powell, for the Reading and Leeds festivals which take place in August of this year. The festivals will be headlined by Arcade Fire and Guns n Roses , on a bill that includes LCD Soundsystem , Queens of The Stone Age , [...]

George Bernard Shaw said, "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." It works both ways, but there are some things about America that foreigners just don't get.

The Libertines' Up the Bracket has been my favourite album of all-time since I first heard it in January 2005...and I really wish I hadn't arrived so late to the party. As I had discussed in the AFIN feature on Andrew Kendall , it was spotting some of his photos of the Libertines in December 2004 at The Killers Network in some users' avatars and signatures that caused me to check them out. I had never heard of them before. [...]

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Hello there! The internets are going ape for the latest viral-blogging think-piece phenomenon: listing your favourite album since the year of your birth. Well, not your birth; my birth. I'm happy to help out, but I might as easily just list all the Nick Cave and Will Oldham albums, plus the same rap albums as everyone else. So here's my favourite British albums. How's about that, eh? I was born in 1979, and [...]

The Libetines are no doubt, one of the greatest bands of the last decade. Their short lived run gave us much to remember them by and now Rough Trade are proud to announce the release of 'Time For Heroes - The Best Of The Libertines' , on the 4th of December on Rough Trade Records. Bringing together the tracks that defined a generation and sold a million records, produced by The Clash's Mick Jones from their epochal debut Up The Bracket and much celebrated self-titled follow-up no. 1 album, Time For Heroes [...]