Indie Music News — Matt Adey has released a song called “Broken Wing”. It’s produced by Chris Potter (the Verve – Urban hymes, Rolling stones etc.) “Broken Wing” has an indie feel with an injection of eletronic production, huge … Read More more info

Stereogum — Damon Albarn recently revived his Gorillaz project for a new album, and it seems that the Good, The Bad & The Queen, his supergroup with the Clash's Paul Simonon, the Verve's Simon Tong, and Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, is up next. We've been hearing... more info

Stereogum — The Verve's Urban Hymns got a big deluxe reissue this month in honor of its 20th anniversary, and some additional songs that aren't included in the reissue have made their way onto YouTube. It's unclear exactly why these were left off -- an email ale... more info

DrownedInSound — An album where the band were their best selves, united and moving forward as one more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — All photos by Collin Quinlivan Earlier in the year Michelle Branch returned with her third studio album Hopeless Romantic via Verve Records. Her summer tour in support of the album brought her back to New York on August 8, as one of the final shows a... more info

Stereogum — The Verve have a lot of great songs. From 1993 to 2008, they released four albums. An always combustible group, the period (for now) in which the Verve were active was punctuated by an abrupt breakup and reunion between 1995's A Northern Soul and 199... more info

Popdose — Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden’s pristine and bright-eyed collaboration on the 1997 Verve LP Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories) is a decent point of departure for Jacob Duncan’s The Busker, a new solo outing by the Louisvillian alto saxophoni... more info

Detroit Free Press — Brian McCollum breaks down notable metro Detroit concerts, Dec. 15-21.             more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: The Verve's 'A Storm in Heaven' and 'A Northern Soul' were just reissued as three-disc deluxe sets (and on vinyl). Continue reading… more info

Nialler9 — Armagh’s Hannah Peel is a member of The Magnetic North with Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good The Bad And The Queen, Gorillaz), a former member of John Foxx’s band and has just released her own album, Awake But Always Dreaming which addr... more info