Guardian Music — Can artists like Richard Ashcroft and LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy really escape their musical past by changing their names?Reading Naomi Klein's 10th anniversary edition of No Logo, I was struck by how many parallels can be drawn between political... more info

Addict Music — Everyone's favourite Northen Brit Poper Richard Ashcroft has returned from his hiatus and premièred a video featuring new material on-line. more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — The ex-Verve frontman debuts the first song from his United Nations Of Sound project with Jay-Z collaborator No I.D. more info

Here Comes The Flood — Watch the Richard Ashcroft video Are You Ready?, with his new band United Nations Of Sound. more info

Stereogum — The Verve broke up (again), Richard Ashcroft released a NSFW video about human trafficking, and now he's onto the next one: working with producer No ID (most recently masterminding "Death Of Auto-Tune" and "Run This Town"), and fronting a band cal... more info

NME — The Verve man returning with United Nations Of Sound more info

NME — Mani's tortoise, Gaga's Yoko plea, Marilyn Manson gets hitched? – your music gossip stop more info

NME — The Verve singer also joins forces with rapper for his next solo project more info

AngryApe — On his forthcoming solo album more info

Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - The Verve rocker Richard Ashcroft has recruited Kanye West and Jay-Z's rap producer to take charge of his upcoming solo album. more info