Stereogum — NAME: Massive Attack PROGRESS REPORT: Wrapping up their fifth album, working title Weather Underground ("It's not going to be the title"), at their studio in Bristol. Massive Attack have been working on their new record on and off for about f... more info

Time Out, London — Daddy G and 3D are two-thirds of original trip-hop developers Massive Attack, whose benchmark 'Blue Lines' debut changed the landscape of British music and whose influence reverberates strongly still. They're touring to... more info

411 Mania — With our new date and time, we learn about Sonic Youth rescheduling, the David Bowie spider, Beck's mailing list, the music of Uri Gellar, new Garfunkel and Oates, The Rolling Stones ex post facto release music with B.B. King and the Turner family, I... more info

Guardian Music — Robin Hill, Isle of WightIn order to succeed at Bestival, you need to remember one thing: make people dance. Rob Da Bank's summer swansong is the quintessential product of a decade in which festivals waxed while clubs waned: nightclub flamboyance mut... more info

NME — Bristol band admit they've already scrapped two versions of 'LP5' more info

Guardian Music — Sometimes the spliffs cause Massive Attack to forget what they've said in the past. But they say the gap between albums is the result of too much work, not too many drugsSitting at the control desk of Massive Attack's studio, which lurks on an unprep... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The “originators of trip hop” Massive Attack are back with a new EP and the world is ready for them once again. The EP is called Splitting The Atom, and so far there are two tracks out there for you to relish in. This is my first time listening t... more info

Stereogum — The big non-news coming from TV On The Radio is that they are taking a break. For a year, which sounds like a pretty reasonable/standard downcycle between albums and extensive touring, but we are living in a TVOTR blog-world where everything the b... more info

Guardian Music — Elbow's Guy Garvey sounds suitably unhinged on this new Massive Attack trackFeaturing Elbow's Guy Garvey, Bulletproof Love is taken from forthcoming Massive Attack EP Splitting the Atom, out next month. Stripped back and with Garvey sounding far more... more info

Guardian Music — He was the sneering face of punk. Now John Lydon berates naughty kids in the street. He reveals why he's reforming Public Image LtdOn Christmas Day 1978, almost exactly a year after the implosion of the Sex Pistols while on tour in San Francisco, the... more info