Undercover, Australia — The third Gorillaz album Plastic Beach will feature an all-star cast including Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg and Mos Def. more info

Nialler9 — Amazing. From the new album Plastic Beach. Mr Womack kills this one. Alternative Youtube stream in case the above one goes down. The album is out on March 5th in Ireland/ 8th in the UK. ‘Stylo’ the single is out on 26th January. Check out the ... more info

MTV.com News — 'Plastic Beach has sprung a leak!' Gorillaz member Murdoc Niccals tweets about band's upcoming album.By James Montgomery Gorillaz Photo: MTV One day after they were announced as headliners of the 2010 Coachella festival, the Gorillaz sprun... more info

Rolling Stone — On the third and fourth Velvet Underground albums, 1969’s The Velvet Underground and 1970’s Loaded, bassist Doug Yule was the gripping boyish voice in Lou Reed’s dramas “Candy Says” and “New Age.” Yule now lives in Seattle and plays the... more info

Stereogum — We've spoken about Scratch My Back , Peter Gabriel's anticipated Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection featuring reinterpretations of Radiohead, Arcade Fire, the Magnetic Fields, Bon Iver, Elbow, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Regina Spektor,... more info

Guardian Music — Who are they?They are a she: 16-year-old singer-songwriter Daisy Coburn from Dunmow, Essex, who's threatening to move into the tween-angst slot vacated by Avril Lavigne. She's been tipped by the BBC Sound of 2010 poll, which isn't bad going for someo... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Velvet Underground - live from the New York Public Library (MP3) Lou Reed, John Zorn, Sonic Youth and others will play a benefit concert for Tuli Kupferberg, the Beat poet and original member of the Fugs, at St. Ann's... more info

Guardian Music — How can you not love a man with a nightclub called Everybody's Beautiful in his basement in Ibiza?As another set of end of decade statistics gets released there's another angry mob ready to aim a heavy boot at the door of popular culture. Sadly they'... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Before achieving fame and glory as a leading Pop artist, Andy Warhol was a successful commercial artist who contributed illustrations to women's magazines and designed windows and promotional materials for department stores. Among his clients was Tif... more info

Guardian Music — Last week we asked for songs with great intros. To herald the coming of 2010, we want songs about new beginningsSo that was a large one then, as the ??? said to the ??? (I'm a Guardian hack, my double entendres are neither gender nor orientation spec... more info