Guardian Music — (Yep Roc)If your single biggest complaint about modern rock is the lack of nerdy types harking back to literate 70s piano pop-rock – in short, if the end of Ben Folds Five was one of the worst days of your life – then Jukebox the Ghost are the ba... more info

Popdose — Ween is one of those fantastic, cult-beloved quirky bands too interesting to ever be extremely popular that should have been one of those fantastic, cult-beloved quirky bands that eventually scored a single, fluke top 40 hit that sounds nothing like ... more info

ContactMusic — American singer-songwriter Ben Folds is reuniting cult group Ben Folds FIVE to record new material The group comprising of Folds Robert Sledge and Darren Jessee split up in 2000 but reunited for a one-off gig as part of a taping for MySpace com show ... more info

NME — Singer hints that he and his old band "will probably get together" for recording sessions soon more info

Stereogum — According to Ben Folds superfan Scott Lapatine, the Ben Folds Five only played their song “Tell Me What I Did” live once: At Scranton University in April 2000. (Do not ask me how he knows this.) This did not stop Folds from reconvening his old ba... more info

Mjsbigblog — As if fantastic a capella singing was not enough to make The Sing-Off one of the awesomest competition reality shows of the last couple of years, it also boasts one of the most charming and knowledgeable hosts in fabulous singer/songwriter Ben Folds... more info

Stereogum — It’s been a second since we had any news on the Ben Folds front — the last of it was Chatroulette-related, remember Chatroulette?! — but he’s posted a new track on his The Sing-Off profile page called “House.” The Sing-Off of course being... more info

My Old Kentucky — Darren Jessee started Hotel Lights after many years of writing songs, playing drums and touring with Ben Folds Five. Darren co-wrote Brick and Song For The Dumped. After leaving the now-famous pop group, Jessee moved from North Carolina to New Yor... more info

Guardian Music — The idea of making a playlist of songs about mistakes only came about because of a mistake, yet many of the song choices it provoked have been brilliant – strange, but beautiful and trueMistakes are wonderful things because they open up so many p... more info

The Vinyl Villain — Picture the scene....It's Saturday 24th April 2010 - JC, Jacques the Kipper and myself are in my car.The Place??The M90 just outside Kinross heading our way to Dens Park, Dundee to watch Raith Rovers who three nights earlier had preserved their first... more info