If hip hop had a super hero, you wouldn’t be surprised if Chuck D was the one wearing the cape. And a comic company named American Mule has picked up the rights to publish a comic based on Chuck’s legendary Public Enemy.
The comic is due to be an ongoing series, published every 2 months, featuring Chuck, Flav, Professor Griff and DJ Lord, with some special guest stars promised. The series will be written and illustrated by Adam Wallenta and Chuck D himself and a special preview edition [issue 0] is available through Diamond Comic Distribution or American Mule.
The White Stripes are going to court to face the man who produced their first two albums. Jim Diamond, based in Detroit, is claiming he is partly responsible for creating the band’s sound and though they had no contract, he said the band understood how important his role was.
The O2 Wireless festival has once again increased its bill with the news that Jack White’s band The Raconteurs have been added to the Hyde Park leg of the festival, with them playin on June 21. Another name joining the festival is UK’s own Sway who will appear on the same day as Massive Attack, Gnarls Barkley and DJ Shadow.
Steve Mason’s King Biscuit Time will release the album Black Gold on May 15th through No Style Records, and have will preceed this with a single, entitled 
New York trendsetters The Strokes have signed up to perform at a tribute show to Joey Ramone at their home town’s Irving Plaza. The Joey Ramone Birthday Benefit was set up a month after he fell victim to cancer, after battling it for 7 years and this year it is held on May 19th, which would have been his 55th birthday.
Following up on the success of their Top 10 superhit ‘Sugar We’re Going Down’, Chicago based darlings Fall Out Boy release subsequent follow-up ‘Dance, Dance’ this week. You can see the music video for the track by clicking 
A team of researchers from Glasgow University have found that Goths are more likely to self harm or commit suicide than other youth groups. They described Goth as a dark and sinister subgenre of Punk and studied over 1,200 people and though other groups were seen to self harm, it was the Goths that were found to be most likely to do it.
Brilliant Australian group Wolfmother’s great new single Dimension was released yesterday and an exclusive live video of the track, recorded at the famous Big Day Out Festival in Australia earlier this year, has gone live for everyone to drool over. You can check it out 
Australian rockers The Vines are set to release a new single next month to mark their comeback from the wilderness.
Lovable rapper LL Cool J has announced that he’s going to put out a book called “LL Cool J’s Platinum Body” which was writter by LL and his personal trainer Dave Honig. You’ll get all sorts of programs, from bronze through to platinum, which helped the rapper change physically and emotionally, so he says.