Guardian Music — Plastic Beach, the third LP by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's cartoon band, will feature Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Mark E Smith, Lou Reed and Gruff RhysLike a cartoon sunrise over a cartoon landscape, with cartoon revellers firing celebratory cartoon fi... more info

Plastic Beach, the third LP by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's cartoon band, will feature Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Mark E Smith, Lou Reed and Gruff RhysLike a cartoon sunrise over a cartoon landscape, with cartoon revellers firing celebratory cartoon fi... more info

Rollo & Grady — The new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, is set for a March 9th release. Guests include Lou Reed, Mark E. Smith, Snoop Dogg, De La Soul, Gruff Rhys, and Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of the Clash. You can stream the new single “Stylo” featuring Mos D... 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

NME — Frontman hoping to release a soundtrack and DVD more info

Guardian Music — Welshman and Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys has been on a quest to trace his family in Patagonia – and he's made it into a filmIn Bala, Wales, in 1882, a farmer named Dafydd Jones challenged his cousin to a race on horseback. Jones rigged the r... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Guardian music journalist Will Hodgkinson has just published a new book, The Ballad Of Britain, which sees him travel round the UK in a beat-up car meeting some of the country’s music eccentric folk musicians. From morris dancing freaks in Oxford t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Fresh Bread The Aquarian: So how important is the visual counterpart of your music to you? Gruff Rhys: It's part of our identity really. It's a continuation of the music on a slightly different level. Sometimes that helps... more info

NME — Gruff Rhys and co for one-off date in UK capital more info

NME — Gruff Rhys and co head to Manchester and Glasgow for the shows more info