BBC News - UK — Damon Albarn says he recently met up with former guitarist Graham Coxon. more info

Chorus.fm — You can download a *Black Ghosts (http://www.absolutepunk.net/theblackghosts)* MP3 here (http://www.archive.org/download/BlackGhosts-RepetitionKillsYouRacRemix/02RepetitionKillsYouracRemix.mp3), the RAC remix of "Repetition Kills You", which features... more info

NME — Scott Walker has chosen artists including Jarvis Cocker, Damon Albarn and Dot Allison to perform music from his albums 'The Drift' and 'Tilt' at three shows next week. more info

NME — Damon Albarn believes his opera 'Monkey: A Journey To The West''s forthcoming London residency beats both Blur and Gorillaz in terms of ambition. more info

NME — Damon Albarn believes his opera 'Monkey: A Journey To The West''s forthcoming London residency beats both Blur and Gorillaz in terms of ambition. more info

Mercury News, California — Over the past two decades, Diabaté has gained widespread attention in the West through his collaborations with Björk, Taj Mahal and Blur's Damon Albarn, as well as jazz greats Roswell Rudd, Randy Weston and Dee Dee Bridgewater. Recently, he collabo... more info

Stereogum — That previously reported Monkey: Journey To The West project, involving Gorillaz collaborators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett in the classic tale of a Monkey King approaching monkey enlightenment one monkey day at a time, has become a pretty big dea... more info

NME — Jamie Hewlett has created and directed a short film for 'Monkey Bee' - the single from his and Damon Albarn's album 'Monkey: Journey To The West'. more info

Guardian Music — Manchester could play host to an annual 18-week season of performances from the Royal Opera House, the Guardian has learned.A proposal drawn up by Manchester city council and the Royal Opera House - to be presented to the culture secretary, Andy Burn... more info

NME — Damon Albarn collaborator Jamie Hewlett has turned the pair's opera into a comic strip. more info