Popdose — This is as close as Americans will get these days to a live Blur show. more info

The Independent — Britpop's longest feud will be laid to rest when Noel Gallagher performs with Blur duo Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon at a Royal Albert Hall charity concert. more info

411 Mania — If they agree to it... more info

Consequence of Sound — Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ed Sharpe, and Japandroids also playing. more info

Guardian Music — Our countdown of the year's best albums continues with Hot Chip's In Our Heads. On their stellar fifth album, the great British pop group combined fun, warmth and sincerityWhat a lovely group Hot Chip have become. Quietly, unassertively – this is t... more info

DrownedInSound — Nothing could have vindicated their decision to be Blur, not Seymour, more than the Hyde Park show Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — (Drop Anchor)Martin Rossiter fronted Gene, a foppish, Smiths-y quartet who sold 1m records in the Britpop era without troubling Oasis or Blur. Since then, fatherhood, depression and music teaching have led to this surprise reemergence. Opener Three ... more info

411 Mania — Even after this summer... more info

Guardian Music — The anarchic LA duo on learning from the White Stripes, fitting a career around school, and not taking their career too seriously'We've been doing this for 20 years," says Mikaiah Leh, one half of the Los Angeles duo the Bots. "So it kinda got seriou... more info

Guardian Music — Menswear were to Blur what the Monkees were to the Beatles, a band that became popular when times were goodJust a week after a track by Damon Albarn, formerly of Blur, was chosen to mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC, it appears that congratulation... more info