Blur bassist Alex James will be showing off his farming skills as a member of the selection committee for London's 2008 Real Food Festival.

When I first comprised this list, I had all the usual suspects: Thriller, Closer, Daydream Nation, Purple Rain - you know, the albums you see on every other top 10 list for the 80s.

Blur rocker Alex James will be the first guest on pop star Lily Allen's new BBC chat show Lily Allen And Friends.

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Leighton Meester has dismissed speculation she's dating her Gossip Girl co-star Chace Crawford, insisting they're just "really happy people." While Meester admits the pair shares "the same views on life", she insists they are not romantically involved.

The king's ransom of influential and diverse U.K.-based indie pop & rock acts that emerged from Great Britain in the broad wake of '80s post-punk has never been chronicled with serious attention -- until now, and Rhino's vast 4-CD retrospective The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, And Brit-Pop Gems Of The Last Millennium does just that.

British rockers Blur have officially ruled out plans for a reunion - despite enjoying a lunch date earlier this month. Bassist Alex James recently lifted fans' hopes for a reunion after admitting all four bandmembers - including guitarist Graham Coxon, who quit in 2002

Fans of Paul McCartney can now learn how to play his songs online via a video tutorial - by the legendary rocker himself. McCartney has signed up to give music lessons on NowPlayIt.com - a downloadable video training service - and has already recorded three tutorials for his song Ever Present Past for budding musicians to learn from.

Blur singer Damon Albarn has failed to pass his driving theory test - because he has trouble with the multiple choice answers. The 39-year-old rocker has already taken the written test five times without success.

Blur are reuniting with guitarist Graham Coxon next month, five years after the guitarist left the band. Coxon parted on bad terms with the group in 2002, while Blur were recording the album Think Tank.

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has admitted he battled an addiction to cocaine at the height of the band's fame in the 1990s. Rowntree, 43, revealed his former addiction in an article urging the U.K. government to review their anti-drugs policy in British newspaper The Guardian.