ContactMusic — Florence Welsh nearly lost her leg thanks to a former boyfriend The Florence the Machine singer still has a scar on her right foot from when she was 17 years old and received a phonecall from a boy she liked causing her to jump around the room en... more info

USA Today Music — Florence + The Machine's latest album, Ceremonials, is double-plus good. more info

Starpulse — British group Florence and the Machine is going high fashion and teaming up with design icon Karl Lagerfeld to release a special collector's vinyl version of its new single "Shake It Out." Only 50... more info

Guardian Music — Florence Welch's debut album, Lungs, was the break-up record of 2009. But where to next for the glamour queen of goth pop now that she is back with her ex?Of the "10 Florence commandments" once pinned to the wall of a recording studio by Florence Wel... more info

ContactMusic — British group Florence And The Machine is going high fashion and teaming up with design icon Karl Lagerfeld to release a special collectors vinyl version of its new single Shake It Out Only 500 copies of the white vinyl will be made available from Mo... more info

Mercury News, California — Also: Harold and Kumar are back for the holidays; Florence and the Machine has a new album; more info

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NME — Limited 'Shake It Out' vinyl will be the first release with Karl Lagerfeld more info

Pop Justice — » 'Apparently' Britney Spears demanded fish and chips, toothpaste, figs, prunes and a framed picture of Princess Diana for her dressing room before her first O2 show last night. (The Mirror) (http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/10/28/britney-sp... more info

Guardian Music — (Island)The mood of Florence Welch's second album is set by the cover, on which Welch appears to be posing for Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The mood of the disc inside, too, is decidedly pre-Raphaelite: a gothic fever dream of romance, striving for intens... more info