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• The Enemy is playing the opening gig at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel. [DS]
• Britney dumped Adnon and tossed his iPhone in a pool, the Guardian made fun of his track jacket, and Keith Richards doesn’t like cds, Oasis, or the Arctic Monkeys. [Guardian]
• Bands gather at the Roundhouse to make a charity single to raise money for Consequences, a homeless organization. Artists include Supergrass, Dirty Pretty Things, The Enemy, Paul Weller, Beth Ditto, Andy Rourke, and New Young Pony Club. Single, also named “Consequences”, will be out next month. [Guardian]
• The Dead 60s split up non-acrimoniously. [NME]
• Led Zeppelin will not tour; my roommate can continue to blame Alison Krauss. [NME]
• Kate Nash, Editors, Richard Hawley, Battles, and Lightspeed Champion get added to Irish Oxegen Festival. [NME]

• Full T in the Park lineup. Includes: The Verve, Rage Against the Machine, REM, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, The Fratellis, Interpol, and Panic at the Disco (Really?) (NME)
• Radio 1 Big Weekend will be May 10-11, Scouting for Girls is first act announced. (DS)
• Massive Attack will curate this year’s Meltdown Festival June 14-22. (DS)
• The Melt! Festival (Jul 18, 2008 - Jul 20, 2008 - Gräfenhainichen, Germany) includes: Bjork, Franz Ferdinand, Editors and The Teenagers.

Pink and PETA protest against the treatment of Manhattan carriage horses

Gerard Way says My Chemical Romance misses being a regular rock band:

“I think [the next album] will definitely be stripped down. I think the band misses being a rock band,” Way told NME.

“That doesn’t mean we won’t explore really crazy ideas on the next albums, or do something even crazier.

“It doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll start to take steps backwards creatively. But it felt in a live sense, this is what we do great live.

“And we’re better musicians for having written and played ‘The Black Parade’, so you’re dealing with [the fact that] everybody’s better as musicians and singers”

Ricky Wilson says he doesn’t mind if they lose to Girls Aloud:

Wilson told the Daily Star: “I am surprised to be in the same category as Take That and Girls Aloud but it’s exciting.

“You think of them being massive bands, and I think it’s healthy to think of people as bigger than you.

“You can’t really compete with Girls Aloud. But if Editors or Arctic Monkeys win, then I’d be a bit ‘grrr’.”