Guardian Music — Grime pop star Tinie Tempah meets Rich 'Smelly' Pelley to trade hygiene tips, rap names and time-travelling holiday plansHi, Tinie. You're tiny. Tinchy Stryder is titchy. Lil Wayne is little and Too $hort (1) is too short. Bummer. Are you glad you're... more info

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The Music Fix — Paolo Nutini, Calvin Harris, Tinchy Stryder + More! Day One of Newcastle's Evolution Festival. more info

Guardian Music — PICK OF THE WEEK The Like He's Not A Boy (Downtown/Polydor) I'm well aware that making the Like Pick Of The Week makes me look like a guy who's upset that it's not 2004 any more (I am, bring back the New Rock Revolution!), but it's not exactly a clas... more info

The Mirror — Tinchy Stryder didn't feel too low after losing out to JLS (who bid £30k) for a session with Swizz Beatz at the Black Ball auction, even though his height let him down. more info

Time Out, London — Wiley-founded, 16-strong godfathers of grime might have been perennial underperformers over the years compared to the individual successes that former members like Dizzee and Tinchy Stryder have gone onto, but off the back... more info

Guardian Music — David Beckham eats there. So does Tinchy Stryder. The peri-peri chicken chain is now the restaurant of choice for a new breed of confident young multicultural Britons. So how did that happen, asks Miranda SawyerThe time is 7.30pm on a Wednesday, and ... more info

Guardian Music — He might not be the UK Timbaland, but this Londoner's low-rent rap-inflected R&B is sure to join N-Dubz in the chartsHometown: London.The lineup: Labrinth (vocals, music).The background: Labrinth – who the spelling-conscious Sun is insisting on cal... more info

NME — Avi Buffalo, Candi Staton, Tony Allen also added to bill more info

MTV.co.uk News — Grime MC Chipmunk has claimed in a recent interview that he would love to work with Rihanna on a track. Ri-Ri seems to be loving UK grime artists at the moment after appointing Tinchy Stryder to... more info