Pop Candy — Welcome to the working week, everyone. I hope you had the best weekend -- I'm really into re-watching Lost right now, so I did a lot of that. I also caught up on some new music, in preparation for my upcoming trip to South by Southwest. I still haven... more info

Guardian Music — Your chance to hear Gorillaz's hotly anticipated third album, Plastic Beach, a week before it's releasedAs part of their takeover of guardian.co.uk/music, Gorillaz are letting you hear Plastic Beach in full. Featuring collaborations with Lou Reed, Mo... more info

Guardian Music — Normal service will be interrupted this week on guardian.co.uk/music. Let Gorillaz's louche bass player explain why his band have hijacked our site more info

Guardian Music — The guardian.co.uk/music team have been kidnapped and locked away in the stationery cupboard whilst Gorillaz run riot with the site more info

I Like Music — Stylo the first music video from album Plastic Beach will premiere globally on YouTube at 5am GMT on March 2nd more info

Guardian Music — Murdoc from Gorillaz tees up their 2D takeover of our music site with a rough guide to the band's new best buddies on Plastic Beach. Plus! De La Soul give their side of the taleVisit guardian.co.uk/music on Monday to see what Gorillaz get up to with ... more info

The Telegraph — Damon Albarn doesn't steal or borrow from other genres - he lovingly salvages the things they have left behind. more info

Idolator — Gorillaz team up with former Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys and De La Soul on wacky hip hop jam “Superfast Jellyfish,” which Damon Albarn & Co. premiered via the cartoon group’s official YouTube account yesterday. Dive below to give th... more info

Guardian Music — Sleeve Notes readers, help, you've really got to help! As I write this I'm currently locked in one of the stationery cupboards in the far reaches of the Guardian culture hub! I don't know who did this to me but I've been in here for three hours with ... more info

Stereogum — It took the voices of Bobby Womack and Mos Def to get “Stylo“’s disco going and bassist Murdoc’s AOL “pirate radio” session snippets — a couple with Sweden’s Little Dragon — to flesh out Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach (3/9 via Parlophone... more info