Totally Fuzzy — Back in July, Blur/Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn invited producers T-E-E-D (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress,Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka, Rodaidh McDonald and Kwes along to the Dem... more info

ContactMusic — Damon Albarn wants to release a solo album The 43-year-old musician has recorded with a number of different acts including Blur Gorillaz and The Good The Bad and The Queen but now plans to work alone He said Id like to do a record with m... more info

Gigwise — Blur and Gorillaz star reveals... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The new issue of Q (out on 27 September 2011) features 25 different covers with the artists who are shaping music right now. Each issue features a new interview with all the cover stars, but which one will you pick? The full list of cover stars are: ... more info

BBC 6 Music — Norman Cook kicks off a week of gigs featuring Brett Anderson, Ghostpoet & Damon Albarn's DRC project more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Miranda Sawyer relates how Damon Albarn and co helped her through the breakdown of a relationshipBlur's 13 is a weird album. Overtly emotional, full of yearning and upset, yet scratchy, scuzzy, so... more info

Guardian Music — Gareth Daley is the first Brit-soul boy contender with serious commercial potential since Mick HucknallHometown: Manchester.The lineup: Gareth Daley (vocals, music).The background: We might as well get the comparisons out the way: he's a blue-eyed so... more info

Guardian Music — (Split Records)For all their talk of Latin beats, south Londoners Flash Fiktion are a psychedelic indie-electro act, whose riotous music nods to Klaxons, early Blur and Simian Mobile Disco when they were plain Simian. That in itself is nothing new, b... more info

Guardian Music — Whether it's theatrical sets or performing in costume, bands are taking stagecraft seriously in a bid to stand out from the crowdFin Greenall has spent more than a decade working in front of live audiences – first as a DJ for the Ninja Tune stable,... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums – here, Gareth Grundy explains his love for The Good, the Bad and the Queen"It's hard to imagine an anti-war song becoming a radio hit, as it might have done in the 60s. The way people listen to music ... more info