Consequence of Sound — Damon Albarn follows up Blur with an all-star tour of the UK. more info

ContactMusic — British rocker Damon Albarn axed a planned month-long break in Mali after radical Islamic forces took over the north of the African republic The Blur frontman is a keen fundraiser for the landlocked nation and has made several collaborative albums wi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher UK producer Actress (aka Darren Cunningham) released his great new album, R.I.P., this past April on Damon Albarn's Honest Jon's label. At a quick glance, R.I.P. seems like a pretty minimal IDM record, but a little more... more info

Consequence of Sound — Features Damon Albarn and Portishead's Beth Gibbons. more info

Guardian Music — It's one of the greatest singles in pop history – and unlike many of its contemporaries, it has aged well Reading on mobile? Listen here.I'm not a Numanist. In fact, some of my best friends are Numanoids. It's a tough job to assess Gary Numan's pla... more info

ContactMusic — Rizzle Kicks want to collaborate with Damon Albarn The Mama Do The Hump duo - Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sule - are huge Blur fans and asked frontman Damon if they could pen a track with him when they were invited to the bands secret Lon... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Former rival rockers Noel Gallagher and Graham Coxon are set to perform a song together for the first time when they hit the road later this year (12).The ex-Oasis star had a long-running war-of-words with Coxon and his Blur bandmates in the 1990s bu... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonSince it was first seen during the Manchester festival last year, Damon Albarn and Rufus Norris's opera built around the life and work of John Dee – the 16th-century mathematician, alchemist, spy and adviser to Elizabeth I – has b... more info

Guardian Music — Carole Jahme talks to Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory, and Rufus Norris, who directs the opera, about the life and legacy of Dr John DeeCarole Jahme more info

Guardian Music — As Damon Albarn's opera opens in London, Carole Jahme wonders why Dee has been written out of the history of scienceElizabethan England is enjoying a revival in the public imagination, with Shakespeare integral to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and Damo... more info