Guardian Music — Well, by extravaganza, we really just mean that guardian.co.uk/music was fortunate enough to have not one but two album exclusives this week. Tracey Thorn's Love and its Opposite is an album that beautifully captures the quiet crisis of middle age, w... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — Testing musicians’ memories after a lifetime of abuse. This Week: Blur's Alex James This article originally appeared in the 8 May issue of NME What was the name of the white label single with no band name on it that Blur released prior to ‘Th... more info

The Independent — Blur's frontman, Damon Albarn, has revealed that the band are planning to record more new songs. The Britpop pioneers, whose revival last summer drew huge crowds, created intense interest when their first new song for seven years, "Fool's Day", was s... more info

Pitchfork — "I'm definitely going to do a few more of those seven-inches. I love the no-pressure aspect. We can't do it all the time, so I don't want anyone to think there's an album coming soon, it's not possible, but we've got songs!" -- Blur/Gorillaz frontman... more info

Guardian Music — If MGMT's new direction wasn't for you, then give this LA band's outrageously catchy alternative anthems a spin insteadHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Mark Foster (keyboards, guitar, lead vocals), Zach "Reazon" Heiligman (MPC), Mark Pontius (drums)... more info

The Mirror — Damon Albarn has revealed plans for Blur to record more new songs. more info

The Independent — Blur frontman Damon Albarn has revealed plans for the band to record more new songs. more info

DrownedInSound — Although Blur's recent return to recording was filed under "good not great" the prospect of the band continuing to do similar things in the future was probably the best thing to come out of it. Unless you managed to get your paws on one of the offici... more info

The Mirror — Blur frontman Damon Albarn has revealed plans for the band to record more new songs. more info

Guardian Music — Singer says Blur will definitely record new material after the success of Fool's Day, but denies rumours that the band are recording a new albumDamon Albarn has confirmed rumours that Blur are set to record new material, saying the band are "definite... more info