Yahoo! Music UK — Dotmusic - Chris Martin confirms Exeter charity gig more info

XFM.co.uk — The band will play a Christmas show for Mencap... more info

Guardian Music — The worst kept secret in music is now official – the Montreal indie mob are to return next year with their much anticipated follow-up to Neon BibleArcade Fire are to release their third studio album in May 2010, Billboard reports. The mysterio... more info

AngryApe — Alongside Lily Allen and La Roux more info

MTV.com News — Nominations for Black Eyed Peas, Beyoncé, Kings of Leon also signal a possible awards-show youthquake.By Gil Kaufman Taylor Swift Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images For the past few years, the people behind the Grammys have been switching... more info

NME — Band will play Exeter Castle December 19 more info

BAND are off home to Exeter for the first time in a decade to play a gig with Lily Allen more info

BBC News - UK — Chris Martin is returning home with his band Coldplay to play in a Big Noise concert at Exeter Castle for the Mencap charity. more info

Stereogum — Mew's vocalist + a-ha's guitarist + Coldplay's bassist = a sweet nine-minute MP3 from a supergroup that basically sounds like Mew sans the prog because Jonas Bjerre can only sound like Jonas Bjerre and it's not like Guy Berryman is Flea or anything. ... more info

Guardian Music — Britain's Got Talent star makes UK chart history with highest ever first-week sales for a debut albumA 48-year-old Scottish church volunteer has trumped Arctic Monkeys and Leona Lewis – not to mention U2 and Michael Jackson – with recor... more info