As we've reported earlier, today is the release date for the ONLINE version of the new War Child benefit compilation, "Help: A Day in the Life." Featuring tracks from all sorts of fantastic artists recorded over the past 24 hours, the compilation goes on sale today at warchildmusic.com. The disc will be in stores in about a month, but the tracks were supposed to go online at UK midday today (though, as of this writing, traffic has all but shut down the site and the tracks have yet to appear.) What we DO know, though, is that Coldplay and Babyshambles have both added last minute tracks, on top of the stellar lineup already participating (Belle & Sebastian, Bloc Party, Keane, Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers, etc.) Go help a worthy cause and download it today!

England's Trembling Blue Stars are about to call it quits. They have no more plans to remain together as a band after the first of the year. As such they are in the process of planning a few goodbye gigs including a small stop over in the US for the east coast....

Ten years after the initial CD release from War Child, Britian's new elite musicians are headed back into the studio to make a new record. Help: A Day In The Life commemorates the anniversary of the project that set the bar for how charity records could help. On September 9, 1995 War Child Music put a fantastic effort into the world to benefit children caught up in a war torn Yugoslavia. Their record featured bands like Oasis, Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers, Blur, The Charlatans, The Boo Radleys, Massive Attack, Portishead, Suede, The Chemical Brothers and more. As War Child did 10 years ago, the entire new record will be recorded and mixed in one day... and released again on September 9. So who will be featured on this new disc? The lineup isn't complete yet but so far War Child has thrown us a few bones with Radiohead, Gorillaz, Razorlight, Bloc Party, Hard-Fi, The Coral, Elbow, Maximo Park, The Zutons, Manic Street Preachers, Maximo Park, Mylo and The Magic Numbers. While the original disc benefited kids in Yugoslavia, the new CD will be expanding their goals to reach out to children in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Los Angeles based KROQ has announced the lineup for their annual Inland Invasion concert. The concert is set to take place on September 17 and is featuring such exciting names as Beck, Bloc Party, The Bravery, Cake, Garbage, Jet, Madness, Oasis, Weezer and the darling of indie summer fests... Arcade Fire. Amazingly all of this will take place in ONE day. You can win tickets at KROQ's website or they will go on sale on Saturday, August 20 at noon.

As a treat to their fans The Clientele have snuck a sound feed of their new single "Since K Got Over Me" up on their myspace profile. The single won't hit the UK shelves until August 22 but you can hear it now through Real Audio. This is the first release for the band in almost two years and is a mark of good things to come with their new album release Strange Geometry (out in the UK 5 Sept on Pointy, out in the US 11 Oct on Merge).

"I'm literally about to go to the studio and finish off my solo album. I kind of half finished it a year ago and I've been living with it and we're just putting a few final touches to it. It should be released next year and I'm very proud of it."

In an exclusive to Xfm Brett Anderson (formerly of Suede, now of The Tears) announces the imminent completion of his first solo record. He claims in the interview that the difference between his material and The Tears is a lack of guitars... but then goes on to admit there are actually guitars on the record and oh by the way they're all played by him. Yeh it's all about as confusing as this statement... "I co-wrote all the songs with a guy called Fred Bull who was in a band called Pleasure. He's a mate and we started writing together and it went really well so we just made the record." Co-wrote? How does one co-write a solo project?

Jools Holland took to the stage (um some stage?) in London this morning to announce the shortlist nominees for this year's Mercury Music Prize. As I'm sure you all know, this is one of the most prestigous awards to be given out in the UK music world... as well as the fabulous cash prize of £20,000. Personally it lost a little prestige in my eyes the year they overlooked Pulp's "His n Hers" in lieu of giving the prize to M People. Upon reflection I'm sure they now agree with me... anyhoo...We'll find out September 6th exactly who won but for now we can all argue about the list below to suss out who deserves it most...

MTV actually listened to the complaints and will air 10 hours of uninterrupted performance footage from last week's Live8 concerts. Starting at 10am-3pm, VH1 will start the broadcast and then it will switch to MTV from 3pm-8pm. Some of the performances include: U2, Pink Floyd, Coldplay/Richard Ashcroft, Paul McCartney, Killers, Robbie Williams, the Who and more...

If you can't watch, then maybe you'd like to download the performances from AOL. That site has a list of direct download links for almost every performer in every country. And as always, please go to the Live8 website and sign up, they don't want your money, just your face.

...and just like that, the 2005 GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL is history. And, between the webcasts and early reviews pouring in, the fest was an all-around success. Highlights being thrown about:

It's Glastonbury weekend in an England far, far away... but a torrential downpour early this a.m. has caused all kinds of higgeldy-piggeldy to the concert site, forcing start times and lineups to get all jiggled. The Dead 60's have been scrapped from the lineup altogether, and Ryan Adams has pulled out due to illness. The punters have been forced to seek high ground as Eavis & Co. attempt to dry out the fields in front of the stages. If things get sorted, though, you might want to spend some of the weekend with our friends over at PlayLouder, who are planning on webcasting bits and bobs from the show, including full sets from BABYSHAMBLES, BLOC PARTY, DOVES, INTERPOL, NEW ORDER, and the highly anticipated live return of THE LA's.