Damon Albarn: 'Blur and Gorillaz aren't finished'

nme.com (1 year and 1 month ago)

Apr 25, 2012

Damon Albarn: 'Blur and Gorillaz aren't finished'

Singer backtracks on his comments that he's putting an end to both acts full story

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Gorillaz's 'Monkey' Musical Swinging Over to Lincoln Center

For the moment, new music from Gorillaz doesn't seem likely — Damon Albarn and Gorillaz animator/co-creator Jamie Hewlett are on the outs right now — but one of the pair's projects is about to see a stateside resurgence...

spin.com (2 months and 25 days ago)

Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn Are Friendly Now

Once upon a time, back in the guitar-friendly nineties, Oasis and Blur hated each other. (There's a famous Noel Gallagher quote about how he wished Blur's Damon Albarn would "get AIDS and die.") But 2013 is the year of peace — at least for Noel and Albarn, who have been ... More »

vulture.com (2 months and 27 days ago)

See Gorillaz Jamie Hewlett’s New Character for Monkey: Journey to the West

Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, animator of Tank Girl, have been working together for over fifteen years, ever since they started Gorillaz in the late nineties. Over the last few years they've expanded their primate reach to include monkeys. Along with Chinese actor and director Chen Shi-zheng, they've ...

vulture.com (28 days ago)

Damon Albarn Is Talking About Another Blur Album

Here we go again: Damon Albarn, who spends most of his professional time giving noncommittal quotes about Blur, is back out in public talking about new music. The latest, from a recent concert: "We have a week in Hong Kong, and we thought it would be a good time to ... More »

vulture.com (1 month and 12 days ago)

Q&A: Damon Albarn on the Future of Blur, His First Ever Solo Album and Why He Doesn't Hate Oasis Anymore

Damon Albarn is hours away from the first US Blur show in years but as he kicks back on a hotel patio overlooking a golf course near Coachella his mind drifts to other things Like the record he made with Bobby Womack before the soul legend almost died last year...

rollingstone.com (22 days ago)

Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher Unite For Charity

Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher joined forces last night for Britain's Teenage Cancer Trust charity taking the stage to sing together at London's Royal Albert Hall Accompanied by Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and Paul Weller on drums the former rival frontmen of Oasis and Blur performed Blur's 1999 hit "Tender"...

rollingstone.com (2 months and 28 days ago)

Damon Albarn's 'Folk Soul' Solo Album Is Definite, New Blur Album Is Definite Maybe

Damon Albarn keeps playing coy about the prospects of more Blur material, but the British band's frontman has let slip he's working on a new solo album. In an interview with

spin.com (22 days ago)

Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher Seal Britpop Truce by Playing Sweet 'Tender' Live

When Blur released "Tender" in 1999 as the first single from their now-classic 13, the song's mix of Appalachian-style guitar, a gospel choir, and frontman Damon Albarn's wounded uplift made it unique in the group's discography...

spin.com (2 months and 27 days ago)

Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon, Albert Hall - music review

If Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn can share a stage, there’s hope for an Oasis reunion yet. On Saturday night they made Britpop history with Blur’s Graham Coxon on guitar and Paul Weller, no less, playing drums as though he’d never seen a kit in his life.

standard.co.uk (2 months and 27 days ago)

Back to Blur's heyday as a ruler of Britpop

INDIO, Calif. - Ten minutes into his band's performance Friday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, singer Damon Albarn of Blur realized he hadn't introduced himself. So after a hard-driving rendition of Blur's song "There's No Other Way," the frontman took a second to address the tens of thousands of music fans sprawled across the manicured grounds of the...

miamiherald.com (2 months and 6 days ago)

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