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

Altsounds — English singer/songwriter/pianist/multi-instrumentalist Jamie Cullum, who has been dubbed "a one man British Invastion" (Hollywood Reporter), has announced a series of US tour dates to coincide with the U.S. release of The Pursuit on March 2, 2010. T... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Featuring the work of renowned producers from across the globe, “Modern Meditations” has transformed contemporary rock favorites into meditatio! n music for the rock & roll generation. Shimmering rock guitar! s and warm percussion create ... more info

Guardian Music — From working with Malian musicians to scoring an opera, the former Blur singer has emerged as a true pop renaissance manWhen Blur first emerged, Damon Albarn seemed to me little more than a quirky songwriter among Britpop's grey and repetitious ranks... more info

Guardian Music — Skiving school, gorging on cough mixture … popping open the blister-packed CDs of Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space brings it all back"A record that will change your life," is a phrase that gets bandied about too often, but it's a c... more info

All About Jazz — By: Cal Roach Brazilian pop singer Bebel Gilberto is probably known more in the U.S. for her collaborations (Thievery Corporation and David Byrne, etc.) than for her solo work, even though she is a native New Yorker. The new All In One, her first al... more info

Live Daily — Alt-rockers The Verve Pipe [ tickets ] will support their just-released set, "The Family Album," with a scattering of US shows that run through the end of February. The spread-out excursion focuses on the Midwest through mid-December. Following a ... more info

Guardian Music — 'I often take my children on tour. I order them room service, wash their clothes in the sink - then do my show'What got you started?My family. My dad's mum and dad were coal-miners; they had a piano, and loved music like Fats Waller. Then on my moth... more info

All About Jazz — Nicholas Payton has to be on the short list of the finest living jazz trumpeters. Early in his career, he was a protg of fellow New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis. But Payton has long since established himself as an esteemed artist in his own right, ... more info

NME - Radar — The Orkney Isles are a strange place. This is the kind of thing they do to pass the time: An archipelago off the coast of northern Scotland, it's cut-off from much modern humdrum and rich in folklore and tradition, notably about tales of the Trow,... more info