Guardian Music — Five-year-old spin-off from classical music Proms axed because of efficiency savingsBBC Radio 2's Electric Proms has fallen victim to the corporation's latest-round of cost-cutting with last year's event, featuring Robert Plant, Neil Diamond and Sir ... more info

DrownedInSound — Gypsy rock isn’t all high-brow, strange instruments, ethnic noises, and Damon Albarn gurning in the corner with an erection. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — A pop song inspired by a Grayson Perry artwork? Yes, and with a rather fine video tooMap of an Englishman – the first single from Erland and the Carnival's second album, Nightingale – is named after a Grayson Perry artwork that hangs in the studi... more info

ContactMusic — BLUR rocker DAMON ALBARN is writing the musical score for a movie adaptation of a children's book written by his sister, according to a U.K. report.Jessica Albarn's story The Boy In The Oak, about a young boy trapped by fairies in an enchanted tree, ... more info

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Guardian Music — Dave Rowntree suggests Blur plan to return this year, promising fans 'something is going to happen'Damon Albarn might have been optimistic when he said Blur could be back in studio this January, but Dave Rowntree has further fuelled reunion rumours, ... more info

ContactMusic — BLUR rocker DAVE ROWNTREE has urged fans not to anticipate an album from the band this year (11), insisting the group's plans to record its first record in almost a decade are not "concrete".The Parklife hitmakers returned to the music scene after a ... more info

ContactMusic — Blur will "definitely" get back together this year.The 'Song 2' band's future has remained in question since they played a handful of triumphant shows in 2009, but drummer Dave Rowntree is confident all four members of the group - which also includes... more info

Topix — Gorillaz co-head Damon Albarn made waves when he proclaimed that he had already finished the next album mere months after this spring's sprawling, visionary, uncompromisingly brilliant Plastic Beach , that he had accomplished this feat by mostly usin... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — A Beady Eye single was announced yesterday but there is already a Beady Eye Juniors group in the offing.Liam Gallagher says his son Gene, who's nine, is learning to play drums, while his bandmate Gem Archer says his lad Joel, 14, is more interested i... more info