ContactMusic — Ray Davies claims to be Damon Albarn when people recognise him in the street The Kinks singer and guitarist tries to fool people into thinking he is actually the singer from Blur - whom he is over twenty years older than and bears little resemblance.... more info

Guardian Music — Maida Vale Studios, LondonAfter Blur's 6 Music gig – the first of two shows they're playing for BBC radio tonight, to begin what they have suggested may be their last fortnight as a band – their 1995 single, The Universal, plays on the air. This ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Why not go 21 years back? more info

Guardian Music — Blur Under The Westway (EMI) Blur have managed an incredible thing: if they end their set at Hyde Park on August the 12th with Under The Westway, their supremely sad and tremendous new single, people will hug, lighters will come out, and a lonely dwe... more info

Guardian Music — Joy Orbison, LondonPeter O'Grady, the DJ and producer with arguably the dance world's best pseudonym, is someone having the best of both worlds. He's reassuringly underground (he says his influences include GG Allin and Martin Hannett) and he hasn't ... more info

411 Mania — Continuing their comeback... more info

DrownedInSound — In a week that DiS posted legends Johnny Marr & Nile Rodgers in conversation, launched a new News Digest column, reviewed the Blur 21st Anniversary re-issues and someone started a reader poll to find DiS' favourite album, oh and Team GB (does anyone ... more info

DrownedInSound — A record unlike any Blur had even come close to before. It was a paradigm shift in tone, style and approach that effectively broke away from the ice-shelf of their previous work, and carried their legacy towards vastly different hemispheres. R... more info

DrownedInSound — If Think Tank is to be Blur’s final LP, then ‘technically brilliant, occasionally inspired’ is not the unfeeling epitaph they’d want. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

The Independent — An exhibition of 70 photographs of Blur documents the band's story from the 1990s and Britpop's heights to the present. Gems include Pennie Smith's never-seen rehearsal shots for Glastonbury 2009, just after the band reformed. more info