UKF - North American Spring Tour

Over the past few years UKF has fast become one of the biggest names in bass music, creating an online YouTube-based platform for artists to reach millions of people with their releases. As well as that they have been putting on some of the biggest nights in the UK, but now it's time to go Stateside, for a full 30-date tour of the USA & Canada. Taking two of the most exciting Dubstep acts around, Gemini & Koan Sound along for the ride, the tour kicks off in Philly on March 1st and concludes in Vancouver on April 8th. All information on click HERE.

Creamfields 2012 Line-Up to be announced by Annie Mac on March 2nd

Creamfields have today revealed that they will be announcing the line-up for this year's event @ 7pm on Friday 2nd March on Annie Mac's Radio 1 show. The ever impressive festival returns to Daresbury in Cheshire on 24, 25 & 26th August Bank Holiday weekend, after scooping the award for 'Best Dance Event' for the 3rd year running in the latest UK Festival Awards.

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Greg James, Gemma Cairney & Jameela Jamil land new Radio 1 shows

Earlier today Radio 1 & 1Xtra Controller, Ben Cooper, announced changes and brand new signings to the Radio 1 & 1Xtra schedules. From Monday April 2nd Greg James will move to weekdays 4-7pm, swapping places with Scott Mills who also gets a new show, moving to weekdays 1-4pm. Brand new signing Jameela Jamil will be joining the station to host the Radio 1 Request Show which will be now broadcast on Sunday’s from 7-9pm, and Gemma Cairney will be taking over the weekend breakfast show 7-10am, moving over from sister station, 1Xtra where she has been presenting the afternoon show since January 2011. Hit the jump to see the full statement from the BBC Press Office and what the DJs have to say.

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NaS' tenth studio album is finished

NaSir Jones took to his Twitter yesterday to announce that his highly anticipated tenth studio album is completed, putting the ball in Def Jam's court and hopefully meaning we will hear it sometime this year. The news that tentatively titled 'Life Is Good' is ready to be released is music to every Hip-Hop fans ears, and will be his first solo LP since the controversial 'Untitled' in 2008 - if 'Nasty' and his recent features are anything to go by, then this is going to special. Nasty, kid.

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NaS, Common & Q-Tip reportedly set to form super group The Standard

Back in 2007, Q-Tip & Common announced that they were to form a super group called The Standard - however nothing came to light, in a similar vein to that of CRS (KanYe, Lupe & Pharrell). However, in a recent interview with NYDN, NaS said that he "definitely" plans on doing an album with Tip & Comm in the future, fuelling speculation that the duo could well become a trio. Kamaal is currently working on his third studio album, and the follow up to 'The Renaissance', while NaS is readying his next LP 'Life Is Good'. We can live in hope.

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Example reveals title of collaboration with Ed Sheeran

Whilst on the red carpet at the Brits last night Example revealed that a track called 'Throw It All Away' with Ed Sheeran is nearly ready for release. Gleave told Capital FM's showbiz reporter Kevin Hughes that they "worked on it a bit in LA and I sent the final vocals to his engineer the other day so we're going to finish it and then we're going to give it away". Check out the full interview after the jump.

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Jazz FM broadcasts 'inappropriate' gay porn

Here's a news story you don't see every day. Jazz FM recently had to apologise to listeners after accidentally broadcasting what seemed to be a spoken soundtrack to a gay porn film on Saturday night, complete with 'moans and groans'. The incident took place during the usually flawless pre-recored 'Funky Sensation' show with Mike Vitti - over the course of several minutes, a 'mostly wordless', but still obviously heated interlude was playing in the background of the music being aired, as well as during adverts. Check out a full apology after the jump:

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Tinie Tempah reveals information about sophmore album

On the red carpet last night, Tinie Tempah revealed some exclusive information about his sophmore album, which will be the follow up to his 2010 debut 'Disc-overy'. Speaking to the BBC, the London-born rapper announced the title will be 'Demonstration' and that in a month's time "everything should start seeping out - it's sounding pretty amazing". Check out an interview he did with Clara for Kiss where he reveals more about the sound and what fans can expect.

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Adele sells 716,091 copies of '21' since Grammys

On the same night she picks up two Brit Awards, HITS Daily Double have just announced that Adele has had a massive week of sales following her 6 Grammys last Sunday. According to HDD, the London-born singer/songwriter sold a staggering 716,091 copies of '21' over the past week, beating off competition from the late Whitney Houston's 'Greatest Hits', which sold a mere 170,294 in comparison. Worldwide superstar, doing 90s numbers, a year after the album's release date.

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The House Of Coxhead looking for new writers

After 20 months of basically doing this on my own, The House Of Coxhead is now looking to branch out and bring in a couple of writers to help with the daily running of the site. I recently reached 500,000 hits and that lead on to me getting the wonderful Alya Mooro on board (also writes for MTV Wrap Up & Soul Culture), who will be contributing 3 in-depth reviews a month to the site.

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