CNN Showbiz — After a six-year hiatus in which many bands have emerged, such as the Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs, copying their blend of melodic, intelligent songs and cheeky blokeishness, Blur return to show them who is best. more info

NME — A wrong number leaves Ricky Wilson with a very interesting text more info

TAKE THAT, Scissors Sisters, Snow Patrol and Kaiser Chiefs will appear on singer’s LP more info

411 Mania — Duran Duran back in the studio... more info

Music Juice — The group are currently in the studio with producer Mark Ronson and are delighted with their recent writing session with the 'I Predict A Riot' hitmakers' drummer Nick Hodgson. Keyboardist Nick Rhodes said: We did half a day's writi... more info

JamBase — Lollapalooza Has Announced Set Times Stage Conflicts Included The Chicago festival has announced the set times of their festival (STS9 gets a 4-5 p.m. slot...wtf?) prompting attendees to ponder which bands they'll be able to catch and who they'll... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — The album isn't about the place [High Royds psychiatric hospital, also referenced in Kaiser Chiefs' song 'Highroyds'], which apparently was one of the first loony bins for the poor. I just first heard about it on a TV documentary, and the words just ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — hannibal said...MD.45 - Craving Remastered with Bonuses 2004http://hannibalsite.blogspot.comazzul said...two of a kind - a tribute to louie armstrongandy bey - american songlannie garrett - slick chick on the mellow side-liveoscar peterson - jazz odd... more info

NME — Arctic Monkeys, Susan Boyle, Kaiser Chiefs – your music gossip stop more info

Chorus.fm — Liam Gallagher (*Oasis* (http://www.oasisinet.com)) is happy *Blur (http://www.blur.co.uk/)* is reuniting...for all the right reasons (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/05/quote_machine_61.html). I'm right into the Blur reunion, 'cos it'll fi... more info