Guardian Music — Ex-Clash guitarist will be joined by members of Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream and Glasvegas on six-date tourMembers of Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream and Glasvegas will join Mick Jones on a forthcoming charity tour, performing songs by... more info

Guardian Music — For the best part of 20 years, Manic Street Preachers' bassist and mouthpiece has been collecting photos of the controversial band. As the best of them are published in a book, he tells the stories behind the shotsManic Street Preachers began their c... more info

NME — Nicky Wire has previously said band are going away for 'a long time' more info

ContactMusic — Manic Street Preachers may return with a strip act after their hiatus The Welsh rockers are planning a three-year break at the end of the year and frontman James Dean Bradfield is still unsure what direction their career will take when they come ba..... more info

Guardian Music — Fans make their case for their favourite Manics albumThe Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire will be speaking to Gareth Grundy in this Sunday's Observer about his new book, Death of a Polaroid – A Manics Family Album.To mark the occasion, earlier th... more info

Guardian Music — From the Manics to Mark E Smith, this week's playlist is the businessIn Japan they have company songs, musical expressions of employee loyalty sung by salarymen. Unfortunately, as regular RR commenter HoshinoSakura points out, "most are horrible". No... more info

ContactMusic — Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers are planning to replace frontman James Dean Bradfield with a new singer when they return from their two-year hiatus The A Design for Life hitmakers are celebrating their career by performing all 38 of their si... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - James Dean Bradfield claims Greatest Hits show is "a celebration"... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Here are a few Tuesday afternoon freebies for you lot. The first item on offer is a rework of Underworld's excellently-titled track, 'Diamond Jigsaw' (from the band's sixth album, 'Barking'). Underworld's new EP, which was released yesterday, featu... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Manic Street Preachers fans often tell me that aside from burning pictures of Richey Edwards, the surest way to prove you're not a fan of the band is to like 'Gold Against The Soul'. Talk about a bad rap. Despite the Welsh band's obvious fault lines ... more info