Guardian Music — It's not quite over yet for a tried, tested and trusty formatThe buzz around podcasts has calmed considerably over the last couple of years, with social networks and mobile apps capturing the attention of labels and musicians keen to embrace the lat... more info

CNN Showbiz — Mumford & Sons aren't about to take it easy now that they've hit the big time. more info

NME — Band want to road-test songs before heading into studio more info

ContactMusic — Adele has scored a second week at the top of the U. S. album charts with America's 2011 bestseller. More than 520,000 copies of the singer's second album 21 have sold in two weeks, making the Brit the only artist to have sailed past the 500,... more info

NME — For the first time in 25 years US album chart has all-UK Top Three more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - They are the first band since Coldplay to sell more than a million copies both here and in America... more info

NME — Band gearing up for 'Railroad Revival Tour' more info

NME — Band become the first UK act since Coldplay to pass milestone more info

Detroit Free Press — When jazz bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding shockingly beat out teen idol Justin Bieber, Drake, Florence + the Machine and Mumford & Sons for best new artist at the Grammy Awards three weeks ago, a large chunk of America squinted at their TVs a... more info

Guardian Music — (Full Time HobbyRecorded in the bowels of HMS President, a first world war ship moored on the Thames, and with lyrics inspired by TS Eliot, the Egyptian Book of the Dead and Dream of the Rood (one of the oldest known poems in English), Nightingale is... more info