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

Coxon blasted Nirvana for their''awful s**t'' music he claims almost ruined Blur's career.He believes their success almost plummeted after Nirvana caused a new "disgusting movement" to become popular. more info

AllHipHop — Blur front man Damon Albarn has revealed the guest appearances for the Gorillaz upcoming album, which is titled Plastic Beach. Albarn told the UK's The Guardian that the album will feature guest appearances from a variety of acts, including Snoop Dog... more info

Altsounds — Blur.co.uk (http://blur.co.uk/) yesterday confirmed a feature length documentary film telling the story of blur is due for cinema release on January 19th. “No Distance Left to Run” is directed by 32 (Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace) ... more info

The Music Fix — News: They think it's all over... BLUR - NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN OPENS IN CINEMAS WORLDWIDE ON JANUARY 19, 2010 Blur.co.uk yesterday confirmed a feature length documentary film telling the story of blur is due for cinema release on January 19th. N... more info

Stereogum — Two years ago Damon Albarn told NME that Gorillaz wouldn't make any more pop records. But you know better than to take Damon's word on the future of his endeavors. In a recent interview with the Guardian he says his cartoon band's next LP has a ... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Damon Albarn has revealed that the new Gorillaz album will feature US rappers Snoop Dogg and Mos Def. Speaking to The Guardian the Blur frontman also confirmed the title of the third disc from the... more info