Guardian Music — After cancellations and slow ticket sales, organisers hope to bounce back in 2013Festival organisers are blaming a combination of bad weather, the Olympics, the economy and the absence of Glastonbury this year for a summer of poor ticket sales and ca... more info

Guardian Music — ParkLive is already available on iTunes, and a deluxe box set is due in November featuring a 60-page bookBlur have released a live album of their Olympic closing concert. Just days after the band played Hyde Park in London, a recording of the gig is ... more info

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Guardian Music — Maida Vale Studios, LondonAfter Blur's 6 Music gig – the first of two shows they're playing for BBC radio tonight, to begin what they have suggested may be their last fortnight as a band – their 1995 single, The Universal, plays on the air. This ... more info

ContactMusic — Blur feel like they are drowning in the commercialism of the London Olympics The Parklife hitmakers - who are made up of singer Damon Albarn lead guitarist Graham Coxon bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree - find the corporate side o... more info

ContactMusic — Graham Coxon says Blurs Parklife album was sarcastic The singer-songwriter doesnt understand why people regard their third studio album as a celebration of Englishness as the lyrics in the title song - written about their experiences on... more info

411 Mania — Graham Coxon says their second album didn't fit the music scene... more info

Guardian Music — 'Damon wasn't comfortable doing the verses – he just couldn't get into character'Graham Coxon, guitaristModern Life Is Rubbish [Blur's second album] was overlooked because of the rise of grunge, but we were halfway to somewhere, and with Parklife w... more info

ContactMusic — Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is writing songs for a film about Britpop The musician is teaming up with Ash frontman Tim Wheeler to pen tracks for a fictional Britpop band in a movie called The Wanderers The film is set in 1996 - the heyday o... more info

Guardian Music — (Fire)Boston art-noise outfit Mission of Burma only managed one critically lauded album before splitting up when singer-guitarist Roger Miller developed tinnitus. However, since reactivating in 2002, they have quadrupled their back catalogue, display... more info