Silent Uproar — Parlophone will release the Blur documentary No Distance Left to Run to UK cinemas on January 19th, 2010. The film was compiled from footage shot during 2009's rehearsals and summer touring as well as "recounts Blur's highs and lows." The film will s... more info

Guardian Music — Cowell locks horns with weekly mag and responds to musicians' criticism of The X FactorIn a wheeze that may come to be ranked up there with former editor Steve Sutherland's August 1995 cover boosting the Blur v Oasis showdown, the NME tomorrow splash... more info

The Playlist — Garth Jennings is better known to most folks as one half (along with Nick Goldsmith) of the music video and commercial directing duo, Hammer & Tongs. The team has made celebrated ads and music videos for years, including works for Blur, R.E.M., Fatbo... more info

Guardian Music — Music documentary-maker Julien Temple is to turn his attention to the sibling spats of Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks in a new filmJulien Temple, the director of Sex Pistols documentaries The Great Rock'n' Roll Swindle and The Filth and the Fury, i... more info

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I Like Music — No Distance Left to Run, a feature length documentary film telling the story of blur more info

Guardian Music — From working with Malian musicians to scoring an opera, the former Blur singer has emerged as a true pop renaissance manWhen Blur first emerged, Damon Albarn seemed to me little more than a quirky songwriter among Britpop's grey and repetitious ranks... more info

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Guardian Music — Blur reunited, Michael Jackson died and we made a graph out of new bands ... it's been a busy old 2009. So sit back and relive the year in music with our interactive advent calendarguardian.co.uk/music more info

Guardian Music — No Distance Left to Run is, apparently, 'a musing on Englishness and identity, and a portrait of friendship and resolution'. We hope that doesn't mean it's boring ...A new film chronicling Blur's 2009 reunion will appear in UK cinemas in January. No ... more info