The Polyphonic Spree have announced details of their long awaited third album. 'The Fragile Army' will consist of twelve tracks and will be released in June via the collective's label home of TVT Records.

It was produced by Tim DeLaughter and his wife Julie Doyle with a little help from John Congelton of the Paper Chase will recording took place in Cannon Falls, Minnesota and Duncanville, Texas, as well as Steve Albini's Electrical Audio in Chicago.

Speaking about 'The Fragile Army' DeLaughter said: "This recording was extremely challenging for us, songs had been developed [on the road] and were pretty much fully arranged before recording.

"But ('The Fragile Army') is a very spontaneous album. We'd been off the road for a while, and all the players collaborated on the spot in the studio.

"When we listen back it feels like a diary more than anything else. It's painful and beautiful all at once."

The track listing runs:

Section 21 (Together We're Heavy)
Section 22 (Running Away)
Section 23 (Get Up And Go)
Section 24 (The Fragile Army)
Section 25 (Younger Yesterday)
Section 26 (We Crawl)
Section 27 (Oh I Feel Fine)
Section 28 (Guaranteed Nightlite)
Section 29 (Light To Follow)
Section 30 (Watch Us Explode/Justify)
Section 31 (Overblow Your Nest)
Section 32 (The Championship)

Noel Gallagher has joined pal Paul Weller in confirming that he will play at the Versus Cancer gig at the MEN Arena, Manchester on 30th March.The Oasis star also joins the likes of Ian Brown, The Charlatans and Echo & The Bunnymen at the charity bash organised by former member of The Smiths, Andy Rourke.

After a number of collaborations at last year's event, including Andy Rourke and Johnny Marr playing together, there is speculation that Weller may join up with Gallagher, as he did in London late last year, and Tim Burgess.

Tickets are on sale at £40 and all proceeds go towards Rourke's Great Northern Aid Trust.

Peter Hook's new supergroup, Freebase, appear to have finally found a singer worthy of fronting them. The band – consisting of Hook, Andy Rouke and Mani - were without a vocalist and searching for a front man but Hook has now revealed the names they have decided upon.

Speaking to Billboard he said: "We've been working with some great singers. Tim Burgess has done a vocal for us. Liam Gallagher, I believe, is doing one, Ian Brown and Bobby Gillespie.

"We're going to get them up on stage as well. It's nice that Mani and I can call in a few favours. We were going to call it 'Fourbase,' but it didn't have the same ring to it."

Hook also reveals that while he feels great to be writing new material again there are no plans as yet to work a new New Order album.

Crowds flocked to Butler's Wharf on the Thames in London last night to see Damon Albarn play on board Greenpeace boat Arctic Sunset as part of an anti-nuclear gig.The event was protesting against to the UK Government's replacing of the Trident Nuclear Weapons system.

Fifty-three acts have signed up to support the campaign including Arcade Fire, Brian Eno and Kaisers Chiefs.

Damon debuted a new piece he'd written called Five Minutes To Midnight which was performed by a 50-piece choir and featured actors recounting the world's nuclear history in front of visuals created by Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja.

Damon explained: "It's just a chance to meditate on the realities of Trident and create a moment to that thought process. There's a growing anxiety in the artistic community and it's starting to express itself."

The gig comes on the back of the launch of anti-Trident website no-bomb.com unveiled last week ahead of the Government vote on renewing the weapons which is set to take place on 14th March.

The View's frontman Kyle Falconer is facing a drugs possession charge.The singer is due to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court next Friday (2nd March) after he was allegedly caught in possession of cocaine in the band's home city last August.

The four-piece were forced to cancel their North American tour, which was due to kick off in New York next Saturday (3rd March), over visa issues and immigration trouble.

Under US law anyone who has been arrested must declare it when applying for a visa.

As a result, Falconer's arrest has prevented him from being granted entry into the US and forced the band to cancel eight dates, including their South By South West festival appearance, reports the Daily Record.

The View are due to release their debut album 'Hats Off To The Buskers' in North America on 13th March.

The Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones has confirmed that the band are close to releasing their new album.The star used the band's label Deltasonic Records' MySpace site to update fans.

Speaking of the band's future plans he explained: "We're just ending the album process with a few of us off to New York next week for 'mastering', then if all goes to plan then the latest long player from The Coral should be in your grubby little hands very soon."

The band have spent just over two months in Noel Gallagher's Wheeler End studio, and have said to expect "Zappa sharing a jazz omelette with Gnarls Barkley" on the follow-up to 2005's "The Invisible Invasion".

Ryder-Jones also added the band plan to make a return to the live circuit very soon.

There's now less than a week left to register for this year's Glastonbury festival.The new system means you have until 28th February to get your photo ID into organisers - go to www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury. Michael Eavis says the numbers have been clocking up, although so far just about enough have signed up to match the festival's capacity suggesting that some people are leaving it until late in the day.

Michael Eavis said: "175,000 have gone through as of today - and it's going through at about 600 an hour."

He added: "It's a pretty high number, really. People have been very good about it. Not too many complaints and it means we can forget about touting forever."

Organisers have made a licence application for an expanded capacity of 177,500 people. Mendip District Council will make a decision on 26th March, a week before tickets go on sale. Michael Eavis says the council is pleased with the photo ID system which is designed to stamp out ticket touts.

The Who, Arctic Monkeys and Bjork are among the acts who will appear on Michael Eavis' farm from 22nd-24th June. He also said that Smokey Robinson is set to confirm an appearance.

A San Diego court has ordered Microsoft to pay a French phone equipment company USD1.52 billion (GBP777 million), after ruling they had infringed audio patents.Alcatel-Lucent sued Microsoft over the use of two patents that allowed users to convert audio into MP3 files. The ruling is the largest ever for patent infringement.

Microsoft claimed it had licensed the MP3 technology from a German firm, but the court ruled in Alcatel-Lucent's favour.

Microsoft said it will appeal against the decision it describes as 'unsupported by the law or the facts'

Damon Albarn and Massive Attack's Robert del Naja (3D) are among those behind a new website encouraging an artistic protest again the UK government buying more nuclear weapons.The duo have launched no-bomb.com with Gorillaz' Jamie Hewlett and artist Peter Kennard. The site will exhibit works that oppose spending money on replacing the current Trident nuclear arsenal. An example of Hewlett's work is pictured.

"Over the next three weeks, until the vote on Trident renewal in parliament, no-bomb will be a continually expanding online exhibition and protest," explained the new site. "The aim is to get people thinking, talking, reading, protesting - to make a noise round an issue that has had shamefully little public or political debate."

Although the new venture is not connected to any particular political organisation, they are encouraging people to join CND's march against Trident, which takes place in London tomorrow (24th February).

"The UK Government wants to spend GBP76 billion of our money on renewing the UK's nuclear defence system, Trident. We don't think we should be spending billions on weapons of mass destruction and we don't believe we'll be any safer with a new generation of Trident," they added.

"We don't want to go quietly into the darkness of a new nuclear age. If you want to let the Government know that you don't want Trident, you should march in London tomorrow. Assemble 12 noon, Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park."

Morrissey is set to mount a massive North American tour. The 40-date jaunt is expected to kick off on 27th April and will boast Kristeen Young as support on all dates.

Its unclear if the tour will extend to Europe, but Morrissey's strongly rumoured to play at this year's Wireless festival in London.