It's three years since the group released their Mercury Prize-winning debut 'Myths of the Near Future', but they now plan to release the sequel after their forthcoming appearances.

Guitarist Simon Taylor-Davies said, "I think in England it's just going to be Reading and Leeds, in terms of festivals, this summer. Then we'll tour all the way through to the festivals next year. I think we'll do a few spot shows around the summer, but this will be our big comeback." He told NME. Speaking about the new album, Simon added to the music mag, "One of the fundamental things about this new record is how much of a live record it is. It was written and recorded with the four of us in a room facing each, in a room that was about three metres squared."

Earlier this year Klaxons said that their new LP is inspired by Shamanism.

The Toronto duo are to issue the track 'Doe Deer' on Record Store Day, April 17. Only 500 copies will be pressed worldwide and the song will not be made available to buy online. The track - which clocks in at one minute and 37 seconds - is backed by 'Mother Knows Best', 'Insectica' and 'Seed'.

Crystal Castles are expected to finish their second album later this year.

Cyrus allegedly arranged the meeting after watching McElderry's cover of her song 'The Climb' on YouTube.

Cyrus originally recorded the hit for her 2009 film Hannah Montana: The Movie, while McElderry's version topped the UK singles chart last year following his X Factor triumph.

McElderry is currently busy on The X Factor's live stadium tour and was recently presented with a platinum disc for 'The Climb' as a surprise during one concert. He will release his debut album later this year.

The band are simply taking a hiatus to pursue their own solo projects, before reuniting to record their sixth studio album (the follow-up to 2008's 'Out Of Control'), but several tabloids have claimed all is not well within the chart-topping girl-group and suggested a split is on the horizon.

Harding however, says otherwise, "There's so much sh*t out there at the moment. Don't believe everything you read."

As for her so-called feud with Nadine Coyle, Sarah added, "I don't know when I last spoke to her. But we've not fallen out. That's b***ocks."

The 28-year-old also denied that she is planning a solo album.

The overworked singer admits that she can't stop thinking of her next move. "My passion is so strong I can't sleep," GaGa explained during a conversation with OK!. "I haven't slept for three days... I lie in bed and try to pray and breathe. "I have a very overactive mind. I'm the sort of person who'd never take medication to calm myself. It's maddening. But I love what comes out," GaGa said to the magazine. "If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything. For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them."

Despite Gallagher admitting to Live4ever.uk.com that he does not know that many new bands, he picked out a few of the acts he despises most. As well as Bloc Party and Bombay Bicycle Club, he also referenced "Fire Flies" (possibly meaning Friendly Fires) and "Arcade" (possibly meaning Arcade Fire). "Do you want me to say I like Bloc Party?" Gallagher asked. "I don't even know who the new bands are. Do you want me to say I like Fire Flies? Or Arcade… or fuckin' Bombay Bicycle - they can fuck off with that name for a start! He added: "I'm not gonna pick up Bombay Bicycle's record 'cause of the stupid fuckin' name they've got."

Meanwhile, Gallagher also gave more details about how he met his new bassist Jeff Wootton, who is currently on tour with Damon Albarn in Gorillaz. He confirmed that the 24 year-old is part of his new band (alongside former Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock), but that the bassist will only play live for the time being. "He's not going to be playing on their album. Just live. But we'll see how it goes, you know what I mean?" explained Gallagher. "Jeff's an ambitious kid. He's only 24 and he's a fully-fledged musician."

The 'For Your Entertainment' singer will take to the stage at the 21st annual ceremony, and has also been nominated for 'Outstanding Music Artist'.

"GLAAD has advocated for out music artists, including myself, and I am proud to be part of the 21st annual GLAAD Media Awards this year," he said.

Previously announced award recipients include Wanda Sykes and Drew Barrymore, while guests are expected to include the 'Glee' cast, Tom Ford, Eric Dane, Jason Lewis, Bryan Batt and Benjamin Bratt.

The GLAAD Awards will take place in Los Angeles on April 17.

Florence Welch and co will play the city's Coopers Field on June 10, with Babeshadow as guests.

The band's debut album, 'Lungs' was released on July 6 2009, and held the No. 2 position for its first five weeks in the UK Album Chart. On January 17 2010, the album reached No. 1 on the UK album chart, having remained in the chart for 28 consecutive weeks up until that point.

Tickets for the show are set to go on sale this Thursday (April 1) at 9:00 am (BST).

The boyband, whose eponymous debut album has sold over one million copies, revealed that they have been working with Labrinth, who recently produced Tinie Tempah's 'Pass Out'. "We don’t want to take our foot off the gas. We’re with Labrinth this week and will be back and forth to LA to work on the album over the summer."

Marvin Humes, "The quality will step up as now people have seen our sales figures they’re more open to work with us. We’re doing tracks with Stargate and Toby Gad, who has worked with Beyoncé. Emails are going back and forth with Jason Derulo about setting up time with him too."

The band recently added more dates to their sold-out arena tour, which begins in December.

The festival takes place on July 16-18 at Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen in Germany. For more information visit http://www.meltfestival.de/

The line-up for this year's Melt! festival so far includes:

Crookers
Booka Shade
Chromeo
DJ Shadow
Foals
Four Tet
Get Well Soon
Goldfrapp
Kele Okereke
Massive Attack
Post War Years
The Very Best
The xx

The Queen of Pop adopted the four-year-old from an orphanage in Malawi last year and according to reports, will take the youngster back there next week as she allegedly views it as vital that they understand their roots.

Mercy's meeting with her family is expected to be particularly emotional as it's the first time she's seen them since last summer.

It's also been reported that Madonna has given her other daughter Lourdes a part in 'W.E.' - the new movie she is shortly set to direct about the late British monarch King Edward VIII’s decision to abdicate the throne for his American lover Wallis Simpson.

The TV star can't stand people with poor personal hygiene, and admits she had a torturous taxi ride with a driver with bad habits. She tweeted, "In a taxi and the driver keeps licking and sucking his teeth and it's making me SICK and putting me in the worst mood."

The 25-year-old blonde - who mainly lives in Los Angeles - is currently in London and admits it's great to be back in her native country.

Kelly - who was born in London, but travelled around as a child on tour with her rocker father Ozzy Osbourne and mother Sharon, who worked as Ozzy's manager - revealed in other twitter posts, "im so happy to be back. even with the bad weather. there is no place like home!!!! (sic)"

The trio are rumoured to be releasing the figures of themselves on the back of their upcoming reality show.

Speaking on the show, band member Dappy told Captial FM, "The TV show's gonna be very real. Some people do a reality show when their music career is kind of finished but this will be more promotion for us. After this, we're going to bring out a whole bunch of new records, a bunch of new videos, new albums."

The Libertines formed in 1997, with bassist John Hassall and drummer Gary Powell making up the lineup. The band earned themselves a devoted fanbase following the release of their debut album 'Up the Bracket' in 2002. However, drug problems caused the band to disintegrate around the time of their second, self-titled album. Barât kicked his best friend Doherty out of the band in attempt to make him wake up to his heroin addiction, although this only served to increase antagonism between the pair.

Doherty went on to form Babyshambles while Barât became the frontman of Dirty Pretty Things, who split up in 2008. Relations between the pair have thawed considerably in recent times, however, and they have played on stage together on several occasions since the split. According to reports, the group will consider announcing further dates and writing new material if the reunion goes well.

Don't expect the road to be too smooth, though. Doherty was arrested last week on suspicion of supplying drugs following the death of Robin Whitehead at a flat in east London earlier this year.

Carey, who celebrated her 40th birthday at the weekend, thanked her fans and revealed the gift from her husband Nick Cannon on Twitter. She said, "Again,thank you so much to all who gave so much time&love for 327! NC shocked me with a custom PINK porshe!!! And a huge trampoline!SO PIP!"

It was recently reported that Carey's remix album, 'Angels Advocate', has been cancelled.