‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far
Following our rundown of the best albums in the first half of the year, you responded with your own suggestions, from Kali Malone to Kim Gordon
February 2024
‘Am I surprised Pete Doherty is still alive? No, he’s too smart to die’: the Libertines on feuds, friendship – and their unlikely sober reunion
Weekend
The Libertines’ tortured reunion, Marina Hyde on celebrity-dictator bromances, and the simple trick to enjoying life more – podcast
January 2024
The Libertines review – raucous return for chaotic indie heroes
Previewing their first new album for nine years to a tiny but thrilled audience, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât’s band continue to stumble around greatness
November 2023
Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin review – portrait of the artist keeps its distance
Doc following the Libertines star, made by his wife, is unsparing in showing his struggles with drug addiction but shies away from other personal stories
March 2023
‘It was nuts what we got away with’: remembering the 00s UK indie explosion
As the film Meet Me in the Bathroom relives the glory days of the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fans and musicians recall the sweat, swagger and skinny jeans that made the British scene they inspired even wilder
October 2022
Other lives
Paul Dufour obituary
Other lives: Drummer who played with the rock band the Libertines in the 1990s
July 2022
The Libertines review – ageing backstreet squalor and sporting arenas shouldn’t mix
Carl Barât and Pete Doherty produce some strong moments but without their youthful excitement it’s a rickety affair that wasn’t built for a huge venue
June 2022
Pete Doherty on Kate Moss: ‘Our relationship became a running battle: highs and then crushing, violent lows’
Pete Doherty on swapping crack for camembert in France: ‘It’s easier to be clean here – even for a scoundrel’
March 2022
The Q&A
The Libertines’ Carl Barât: ‘My guiltiest pleasure? Love Island’
The musician on marathon meth sessions, moving to Margate and the Marvel superhero he secretly fancies
October 2020
Less hotel, more gentrified flophouse: The Albion Rooms, Margate – review
A strange venture for the Libertines, a band that crashed around Camden in the 00s
March 2020
'I should have grown out of this': how pop fandom shaped us
As Pete Paphides publishes a memoir of his life in pop, our writers reflect on the childhood musical loves that made them
December 2019
The Libertines review – still creating their own mythic England
Carl Barât and Pete Doherty’s punk-rock singsongs may be out of step with today’s reality, but they still have their old vigour
November 2019
Pete Doherty handed fine and suspended sentence after Paris arrests
The Libertines frontman was arrested twice over the weekend for attempting to buy drugs and for his involvement in a drunken brawl
Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for second time while celebrating release from custody
The Libertines singer was initially arrested for allegedly attempting to buy cocaine
Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for allegedly buying cocaine
Libertines frontman was detained on Thursday night after police stopped a drugs transaction in Pigalle district
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
'It's one big earworm': readers' picks of the best albums this century
After we published our list of the greatest albums this century, we asked for your own suggestions – from dark R&B to revolutionary drum’n’bass
May 2019
Pete Doherty hospitalised following hedgehog injury
Songwriter praises NHS after being wounded while walking dogs
April 2019
Peter Doherty: 'If I was drug free, I'd be a force to be reckoned with'
The Libertines co-frontman is 40 – an age few expected him to reach. Yet he’s back with a new band, a seaside hotel and an unorthodox approach to dog-handling