Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Brian Cannon will be giving an exclusive 'masterclass' session at the British Music Experience exhibit at London's 02 Arena complex on March 3.Not only is Brian Cannon as designer and Photographer, and art director, but he also has band management an... more info

Altsounds — "Praise Be" from The Plea, the first track from sessions they've done with *Chris Potter (Blur, The Verve, *and yes* U2*) available as a free and legal download for your lovely site too.. From the biog; At the heart of The Plea are brothers Denny a... more info

Altsounds — Acclaimed singer songwriter Teddy Thompson is set to release his brand new album, 'Bella', on February 7th 2011 on Verve Forecast/Universal Music. Produced by David Kahne 'Bella' is Thompson's fifth album and combines lean rock and roll with lush s... more info

Guardian Music — A pop song inspired by a Grayson Perry artwork? Yes, and with a rather fine video tooMap of an Englishman – the first single from Erland and the Carnival's second album, Nightingale – is named after a Grayson Perry artwork that hangs in the studi... more info

NME — 'Dynamite Steps' is out this February more info

ContactMusic — THE CHARLATANS drummer JON BROOKES will rejoin the band onstage on New Year's Eve (31Dec10) to play his first full gig since he was diagnosed with a brain tumour earlier this year (10).Brookes collapsed during a show in Pennsylvania in September (10)... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Radiohead's 1997 album 'OK Computer' has been named the best album of the past 25 years by music fans in a new poll in Q magazine.Radiohead also have three other albums in the Top 30: 'The Bends' (eighth), 'Kid A' (18th) and 'In Rainbows' (23rd).Paul... more info

Detroit Free Press — What better way to celebrate the holidays than with a few hundred music lovers. That's what alternative rockers the V erve Pipe have in store Friday for the group's second annual Holiday Homecoming Concert at the Magic Bag in Ferndale. more info

NME — Verve man praises fans for 'coming out in the cold' to see him more info

Totally Fuzzy — Mihai Vancea said... The Verve - A Storm in Heaven (1993) - Review - It’s fascinating, disorientating and very psychedelic. Unlike on their later records, here the Verve disperse with traditional pop song structure, instead building tracks out of r... more info