Pete Doherty & The Libertines

By Alex Font

Pete Doherty was born on March 12th 1979. He is an English musician, writer and artist. He was the singer for the Libertines and Babyshambles.

He enrolled at the University of London to study English literature, but he abandoned his studies in the first year. After leaving university, he moved to London with his friend, the musician Carl Barât, a classmate of Doherty's older sister.

In the 90s Doherty and Barât formed a band called the Libertines. In 2002 they began to be successful, after releasing their first album Up the Bracket.

In 2004 Doherty was asked to leave the band after the release of their second album, due to his drug addiction. The group split up after Doherty's departure.

Doherty and Barât disclosed on 29 March 2010 that the Libertines would play together again at the Reading and Leeds festivals the following August.

The pianist Maria Canals dies

By Èlia Ramoneda

In August 2010 the international pianist Maria Canals died in Barcelona. She was born in Barcelona in 1913 and studied piano at the Barcelona Municipal School of Music. She was also a specialist in music teaching.

Maria Canals and her husband founded the Maria Canals International Music Competition in 1954. This music competition, declared to be of public importance in 1996, takes place every year in the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, with musicians from the all over the world taking part in it. Various artists (including Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies) have designed posters to advertise it.

Eminem's comeback single

By Xènia Nogué and Victoria Englert

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, commonly known as Eminem, was born on October 18th 1972, in Missouri. He had a troubled childhood and his father left his family when he was young. He had to repeat 9th grade three times because of his frequent absenteeism. He has been rapping since he was 14 years old, the age at which he also released his debut EP: Steppin' Onto the Scene. Although he attended Lincoln High School, he participated in freestyle battles at Osborne High School, where the hip hop underground crowd started to appreciate him.

In 1999 he released his first CD: The Slim Shady LP. And he recently released his 7th album. His new CD, Recovery, has two of our favorite Eminem songs: Love the Way You Lie (feat. Rihanna) and Not Afraid. His last CD before Recovery, (Relapse) was very inappropiate because he was always singing about drugs and his life. He recently made a video about bullying feat Lil Wayne, called No Love.

Love the Way You Lie is about domestic violence. It's sung from two perspectives: the male and the female. The boy says that he cannot control himself and when he snaps he does not know who he is. The girl says that she does not care because she loves him so much. When she tries to leave, he restrains her and promises he will not hurt her again.

Not Afraid, the new single released by Eminem, talks about how he cleaned his blood of drugs. He did it for himself, and to encourage everyone who has the same problem as him. He says to his fans that he will not break his promise.

We are not Eminem fans because we don't really like his songs – these are the only two songs we like.