Here Comes The Flood — photo: Rama As a musician usually music is your way out. Damon Albarn more info

Chorus.fm — A video of Damon Albarn playing live at POEM 2012 has surfaced which seems to be him premiering an acoustic version of a new *Blur* (http://www.blur.co.uk) song titled "The Puritan". Hit the replies to watch it. more info

Consequence of Sound — New song apparently "coming out in a few weeks." more info

Aquarium Drunkard — When Damon Albarn solicited soul legend Bobby Womack to perform on Gorillaz’s 2010 album Plastic Beach, it became the start of something more than just those couple of tracks and the result is Womack’s first album of original material in 18 years... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — "I got a story to tell," 68-year-old Bobby Womack announces at the outset of his remarkable new album, and at first you're pretty sure about the nature of his tale: An intergenerational hookup with producer Richard Russell and Damon Albarn... more info

Guardian Music — (XL)Artistic rehabilitations have been all the rage for nearly 20 years, ever since Rick Rubin gave Johnny Cash a stack of contemporary songs to cover. These earned the ailing Cash a last hurrah of relevance and prompted a wave of resuscitations, som... more info

Guardian Music — XLAs Bobby Womack recently reminded the Guardian, he has survived everything from poverty to drug addiction to being shot by an infuriated wife. Now almost 70, the soul legend has poured the emotional fallout from such experiences into his first albu... more info

Guardian Music — Be among the first to hear the brand new album from Bobby Womack, The Bravest Man in the UniverseIn his recent and at times mind-boggling interview with the Guardian's Alexis Petridis, the extraordinary Bobby Womack made the assertion that "bad as I ... more info

ContactMusic — British rocker Damon Albarn has signed up to perform at a poetry festival in London next month Jun12 Organiser Michael Horovitz reveals the Blur frontman will be a special guest at his Poetry Olympics Enlightenment Marathon at Queen Elizabeth Hall on... more info

Guardian Music — Bobby Womack is so proud of his magnificent new album, The Bravest Man in the Universe, that nothing will stop him talking about it. Alexis Petridis gets an audience at the soul legend's hospital bedsideThe nurse attending Bobby Womack wears an expre... more info