ContactMusic — Blurs Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon will play a charity show ahead of this years BRIT Awards The singer and the guitarist will appear alongside Dry The River and Ed Sheeran at the concert held on February 19 to raise money for the War Child orga... more info

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Guardian Music — Rolling Stones singer complains of being used as 'political football' at PM's event to promote Britain in Olympic yearMick Jagger has pulled out of pulled out of an event due to be hosted by David Cameron at the Davos summit, complaining of being use... more info

Chorus.fm — Head to the replies to listen to Damon Albarn's (*Blur* (http://www.blur.co.uk), *Gorillaz* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/gorillaz)) remix of *Lana Del Rey* (http://www.lanadelrey.com)'s single "Born To Die". more info

Stereogum — Damon Albarn, a man who has some experience making music with cartoon characters, has become the latest in a long line of artists who have tried their hand at remixing Lana Del Rey. Like Clams Casino and Woodkid before him, Albarn has put together a ... more info

Guardian Music — What sort of music gets your gastric juices flowing, and what's more likely to cause indigestion?The award winning electro-popster Theophilus London revealed in a recent interview with American foodie site Eater that he'd witnessed Blur and Gorillaz ... more info

Guardian Music — With a compelling backstory that might even be true, Willis Earl Beal is hollering the blues so well XL has snapped him upHometown: Chicago.The lineup: Willis Earl Beal (voice, instruments).The background: Willis Earl Beal is the male answer to Cold ... more info

NME - Radar — Check the new NME and you'll see it's full of Radar bands. Yup, tis our first full issue of the year, and we're all about new music. I spent most of December overseeing things, and of all 100 new acts we're featuring in the issue, today's tip Willis ... more info

Guardian Music — Caspar Llewellyn Smith on pop's new international pedigreeIt used to be that when we thought of pop, we thought of Pete Townshend in his union flag jacket, or Geri Halliwell dressed in little more than her undies and styled similarly at the Brit awar... more info