PA Blondie, Mystery Jets, I Am Kloot, Leftfield and the legendary Martha Reeves and the Vandellas have been announced as playing this year's Secret Garden Party festival. They're just some of the main acts revealed so far playing the four-day event's 12 stages in the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside near Huntingdon, with more to be ...

Kevin Mazur, WireImage Muse have announced that they're going to record their next album in London for the first time -- which will also be the first time the band have lived in the same place for 12 years. Talking to BBC 6Music, the rockers explained that they intended to start on their new album, their sixth, before the end of this year. ...

Tabatha Fireman, Redferns The Cribs have announced details of their forthcoming new studio album and festival dates for the summer. The Yorkshire indie rockers had announced they were going on a break after last year's Reading and Leeds festivals in August, but posting on their official website, revealed that they would be playing this ...

Matt Kent, WireImage So that's it for another year -- the annual industry back-slap fest that is the Brit Awards, which in 2011 promised a re-invention to celebrate more cutting edge UK music, but mostly failed to deliver on the night. Sure, the scale of the event had increased, moving a brief canter across town from Earl's Court to east ...

PA Photos Beyonce has confirmed rumours that she is to play Glastonbury Festival this June and says she is "pumped" just thinking about it. Gossip website Holy Moly initially broke the story earlier this month that the 'Crazy in Love' star would close proceedings on the Sunday night. Now, the singer has confirmed the reports herself, ...

Jon Furniss, WireImage Noel Gallagher says he hasn't actually started on his solo career -- despite his former label boss Alan McGee saying last year that he'd heard demo tracks. The former Oasis songwriter and guitarist had been widely reported to have started on his debut album, with Miles Kane saying he'd played guitar on it. But NME ...

Rick Diamond, Getty Images Adele has confessed that she's too scared to play at festivals. The 'Chasing Pavements' star, currently at No. 4 in the singles charts with 'Rolling in the Deep,' said that she was avoiding al fresco gigs this summer as a result. Talking to the Daily Star newspaper, she said her anxiety was bad enough when she ...