Damon Albarn recently revived his Gorillaz project for a new album, and it seems that the Good, The Bad & The Queen, his supergroup with the Clash's Paul Simonon, the Verve's Simon Tong, and Afrobeat ...
Following the release of the acclaimed new album, The Mountain, and its accompanying short film, The Mountain, the Moon Cave, ...
Damon Albarn was not impressed by the Coachella crowd during the first weekend of the festival. Albarn’s Blur played a 13-song set, including Nineties classics like “Girls & Boys”, “Popscene” and ...
Damon Albarn is a master collaborator. Heck, the first two singles off of the Gorillaz’s upcoming Cracker Island album feature Thundercat and Tame Impala. Albarn has corralled talent in the past from ...
Damon Albarn (2nd from left) and Paul Simonon (R) with The Good The Bad & The Queen Simonon then said, “Sometimes if you are away and you don’t live in the country, then you’ve got a misconception of ...
Fans of UK music know that Oasis and Blur had a major rivalry that began in the ’90s, a feud that has continued in recent years. (NME published an oral history about the rivalry in 2019 that offers ...
Blur fans hoping the Britpop icons would be playing more shows outside the UK for their new excellent 2023 album The Ballad of Darren, you appear to be out of luck. Damon Albarn told French rock mag ...
As Oasis made their long-awaited return to Manchester for the first of five live shows at the city’s Heaton Park, a very different concert, both in sound and spirit, was taking place in Barcelona. At ...
Damon Albarn isn’t sure whether or not he believes Taylor Swift writes her own songs — or whether or not people can read a transcript. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Albarn, the lead ...
It takes balls to start your record with a five-minute instrumental played on a bamboo flute By Kate Mossman It takes balls to start your record with a five-minute instrumental played on a bamboo ...
The latest Gorillaz record may feature epic, up-tempo party songs, but that isn’t stopping frontman Damon Albarn from fretting about the future. “I default to the apocalypse,” Albarn tells the Daily ...