Brits

Sam Smith wins Brits 2014 Critics' Choice award, announces dates (Webster Hall included)

Sam Smith w/ Disclosure at Central Park in August (more by Robert Altman) Sam Smith has had a pretty steady rise, first catching ears towards the end of 2012 with his guest lead vocals on the Disclosure single “Latch,” and then focusing on a solo career that included an EP and had him in NYC for a sold-out Mercury Lounge show in August…

Blur are back - played the Brits (videos), playing the Olympics & other dates; Graham & Damon debuted new song (video)

Blurballs.com writes:Blur are set to appear in an exclusive NME feature piece to talk about their future. Speculations are that they’re going to make a new album with producer William Orbit…

Arcade Fire win Brits (Bieber too), acknowledge meme

To quote Gothamist:Following the Arcade Fire‘s win at the Grammys, it seemed like half the nation was asking: Who Is Arcade Fire? What started off as a post on BrooklynVegan, grew into its own Tumblr account, and by last night the band themselves caught wind of the meme…