Metropolitan Police are understood to be investigating claims that Amy Winehouse attacked a man during a night out in North London. The 38-year-old individual alleges that the singer assaulted him on Chalk Farm Road in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Read more >>

Three catholic priests in Northern Ireland have signed a record deal worth a whopping £1million. The trio – 48-year-old Father Eugene O’Hagan, 45-year-old Father Martin O’Hagan and 44-year-old Father David Delargy – penned the deal with music giant SonyBMG at Westminster Cathedral yesterday (April 23). Read more >>

Lou Reed married his long term partner, Laurie Anderson, in a private ceremony in Colorado earlier this month, it’s been confirmed. The couple tied the knot on April 12th but news of their marriage only became public as celebrations moved to New York this week. Read more >>

Former Clash star Mick Jones has revealed that his new band Carbon/Silicon have written a song inspired by the subjugation of university student Andrew Meyer. Meyer was infamously tasered by police at the University of Florida last year when he attempted to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry a question during an open discussion. Read more >>

A senior immigration judge has turned down an appeal from the UK Border Agency to try and ban US rapper Snoop Dogg from entering the United Kingdom. Judge George Warr said that “no material error of law” had been made at an earlier hearing which stated that the ban should be lifted. Read more >>

Coldplay will premiere the first single from their fourth album, ‘Viva La Vida’, next Tuesday, it’s been announced. ‘Violent Hill’, which is released in June, will be given its first play on George Lamb's show on BBC 6 Music, which airs between 10am and 1pm. Read more >>

Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell has described Pete Doherty as “surprisingly chipper” for someone who is spending time behind bars. Speaking to the BBC, McConnell said that Doherty had been writing his bandmates letters from his prison cell. Read more >>

Sir Paul McCartney is worth £100million more than his divorce hearing suggested, according to the new Sunday Times Rich List. In his divorce battle with his estranged wife Heather Mills last month, a high court judge ruled that McCartney was worth £400million. Read more >>

The Last Shadow Puppets, the side project of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and Rascals singer Miles Kane, have confirmed that they’ll make a second album. In their first radio interview on BBC 6 Music, Turner said that there was definitely more that the pair could explore. Read more >>

The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin have been inducted into the ‘Rock Walk’ in Hollywood, Los Angeles. A rock version of the actual walk of fame, but much smaller and outside a record shop, musicians honoured dip their hands in cement and leave their imprint behind as a lasting legacy. Read more >>

Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, and his two sons are suing filmmakers who they claim used the song ‘Imagine’ in a documentary without permission. The song, which was recorded in 1971, appears in Expelled: 'No Intelligence Allowed’ – a documentary that looks at the alleged discrimination against people who support an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution. Read more >>

CSS have revealed that their second album, ‘Donkey’, will be released this July. The band will precede the album with a special download-only release of new song, ‘Rat Is Dead (Rage)’ via their website on April 28th. Read more >>

An eyewitness to the death of Run DMC legend Jam Master Jay has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for a string of robbery offences. Ronald Washington has long been accused by Federal prosecutors of being more than a witness to the rappers death, which took place in a Queens recording studio in 2002. Read more >>