Here's the deal. Ed Sheeran is in America next week.

1/30 - Mercury Lounge
1/31 - Mercury Lounge (Sold Out)
2/02 - The Hotel Cafe (Sold Out)

Are you going to see him?

Oh also, on Monday, January 30th at 8:30 am, he will be on WPLJ NY Live with Scott and Todd on 95.5 FM. Enjoy.

Ed Sheeran has teamed-up with American rapper Yelawolf for new single 'You Don't Know (For F*ck Sake).

Ed made the announcement over Twitter, saying "I might as well reveal who I did #slumdonbridge EP with now. 4 tracks, out in a month, and the artist I made it with was...Yelawolf (sic)."

Lead single 'You Don't Know' sees Sheeran take a departure from his usual acoustic style to a rap influenced sound with lyrics that are sure to earn him a Parental Advisory.

Read more about it here.

GlobalGrind: You’re doing huge numbers out there in Britain.

Ed Sheeran: Yeah, man. It’s going really well. I’m really enjoying it.

Your debut album dropped. How do you say it? It’s just a ‘plus’ sign?

Yeah, just a plus then I guess. Literally just a plus sign.

What does that stand for?

I did a lot of independent releases beforehand so this is kind of the first step, and I kind of saw it as the addition to all that. It was kind of like an add-on, if that makes sense.

You said you played over three hundred dates in one year. Is that true?

Yeah, I kind of wanted to become the best at what I did. And I haven’t gotten there yet, but the best way to do that was practice. So I did as many gigs as I could. I wrote as many songs as I could, released as much stuff as I could, and worked with as many artists as I could. That was my kind of grind. Just that practice makes perfect.

Read the whole interview.