It's currently a battle between the Arctic Monkeys and Yeah Yeah Yeahs over at Spin.com. My vote was for Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones, which may or may not turn up on my Top Ten list for 2006 (ditto: Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not). I really expected Gnarls Barkley to be running away with that vote, but it turns out people love their frozen simians and Karen O.
Spin also has a piece about drug-addled Pete Doherty and the recent "children's book" that covers his escapades. One day prior to their piece on that book they covered Doherty's presence at a party where a man fell to his death:
"Pete Doherty has found himself in the spotlight again, but this time it concerns his involvement in death of a friend, actor Mark Blanco, 30, who fell to his death Sunday (Dec. 4) after being excused from a party at literary agent Paul Roundhill's East London apartment. According to reports, Roundhill, who represents Doherty, asked the victim to leave the party after he incessantly hounded the troubled rocker about his new play. Blanco was soon found lying face down with his legs around the base of a lamppost after apparently falling 30 ft."Doherty puts the "shambles" in Babyshambles.
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