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The Bluetones

Pop quizzers may remember The Bluetones for famously ousting one of the biggest albums of the past 20 years from the top of the UK charts. The Britpop band's debut, Expecting To Fly, took over at number one from Oasis' (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, just one week after the Gallagher brothers' band had won two Brit awards.

The record delivered three top 20 singles, Bluetonic, Slight Return and Cut Some Rug and is now being reissued with an additional disc of bonus material. The record is making a return following the band's successful UK tours in recent years. Singer Mark Morriss (CORRECT) said: "After listening to the voice of our fan base we decided that now would be a good time for us to revisit our debut album." The band recently played the debut album live and in sequence during a seven-date UK tour.

Ricky Warwick

Rock frontman Ricky Warwick will release his debut single The Arms Of Belfast Town on March 30. The Almighty singer's song has been given the support and backing of the Northern Irish FA as the country's national football team fight their way through the qualifiers for their chance to play in the 2010 World Cup.

Ricky said: "It is a dream come true and a great honour that the IFA and the Northern Ireland fans have shown support and belief in my song. With The Arms of Belfast Town, I wanted to concentrate on all that's good about Northern Ireland; the humour, warmth, passion and belief of the people."

Therapy?'s new album

Irish punks Therapy? will return with a new studio album, Crooked Timber, on March 23. For the past two years, Therapy? fans have eagerly awaited the band's return amid rumours of splits and scepticism from critics. This time, Therapy? are back with a hard-edged concept-recording. According to the band, Crooked Timber focuses more on rhythm than melody. Frontman Andy Cairns said: "I guess we're always challenging just what makes us Therapy? After so many years, if we were formulaic about it we'd have gotten bored with the band long ago. The album was written together as a band and each track has its own concept and inspirations. They took a while to write and we've taken our time to write them."

Yeah Yeah Yeah to Yeah Yeah Yeahs

New York City trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs are poised to release the follow-up to 2006's Show Your Bones, an album described as 'a slow-burning masterpiece' by Observer Music Monthly and 'one of the albums of the decade' by NME.

Karen O and co have UK live dates coming up in Manchester and London, which will follow the release of single Zero on April 6 and album It's Blitz on April 13.

"We've got a death grip on the adolescent way of feeling things," said Karen O, touching on the track's euphoric abandon.

It's Blitz! was recorded with Nick Launay, producer of YYY's 2007-released Is Is EP, and longtime collaborator TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek. The album sessions took the city dwelling band from the snow-covered fields of rural Massachusetts and Long View Studios, to Sitek's Staygold complex in Brooklyn before heading south to a studio in Tornillo in the Texan desert for further confinement and recording. It's Blitz signals both a glance backward and a step forward for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Guitarist Nick Zinner used an old keyboard he bought on eBay during the writing session, not expecting it to end up on the album.

"Obviously, synths have been in rock music forever," Zinner said. "But to us it feels new, which is all we really care about, that excitement."