BBC News - UK — The Manic Street Preachers' new album will be sold in a slipcase after supermarkets deem the artwork inappropriate. more info

THE PRODIGY, Manic Street Preachers and Moby also announced for this year's festival more info

ContactMusic — NICKY WIRE tried to convince fellow members of the MANIC STREET PREACHERS to ditch an album based on the lyrics of RICHEY EDWARDS.EDWARDS, who was the main... more info

NME — Bassist says he wasn't keen on issuing 'Journal For Plague Lovers' more info

Guardian Music — This week we bring you a rather moving edition of Music Weekly. Fourteen years ago, Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards went missing, leaving behind a collection of his unused lyrics. These have now been put to music for the band's ninth ... more info

Guardian Music — Its 14 years since Richey Edwards disappeared - and Manic Street Preachers have recorded his final lyrics. Alexis Petridis meets themAs Nicky Wire is keen to point out, the Manic Street Preachers' new album was James Dean Bradfield's idea. "Yeah," no... more info

Culture Bully — Manic Street Preachers perform "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" and "Me And Stephen Hawking" on the May 5 episode of Later... with Jools Holland. more info

The Vinyl Villain — How do you go about writing about your favourite band? The one that had such a profound effect on you that you know you would have ended up a rather different person without it. A band you can’t imagine your life without. A band that helped re... more info

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JamBase — British Sea Power Release Free Mp3, Announce Summer Tour Dates BSP Remix Manic Street Preachers British Sea Power Following a rapturously-received and sold-out live performance to the film Man Of Aran at London's BFI, British Sea Power are making ... more info