Blur

Stereogum — Blur’s reunion album The Magic Whip is a few months old, and now they’ve followed up their “Lonesome Street” and “Ong Ong” videos with a new one for the album track “I Broadcast.” For this one, they’ve solicited videos from their fa... more info

Stereogum — Last year, Blur frontman Damon Albarn released the solo album Everyday Robots, and it included the single “Mr. Tembo,” a song that Albarn wrote for a baby elephant that he met while visiting Tanzania. Apparently, sometime after writing the song, ... more info

Stereogum — Today in veteran white rock musicians insulting Kanye West: In a recent interview with The Guardian, Blur’s Graham Coxon took issue with Kanye’s particular brand of artistry. When reporter Tim Jonze (he of the Lana Del Rey controversy) cited Kany... more info

Stereogum — I saw Blur this past May, when they did a secret show at Brooklyn’s Music Hall Of Williamsburg. That was a week after the release of their great new LP, The Magic Whip, and the setlist was pretty much a run-through of the album (sans “Ice Cream M... more info

Stereogum — The advent of Blur’s new album, The Magic Whip, and the band’s subsequent reunion tour, has been has been one of 2015’s hallmark nostalgia-laced stories, and Damon Albarn seems bent on continuing the streak. While in Australia, Albarn let it sl... more info

The Telegraph — The Blur frontman will start recording a new record with the virtual band in September more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Courtney Barnett at Bowery Ballroom in May (more by PSquared) To follow their (very tiny) first NYC show since 2003, Blur are returning for much larger US shows at LA's Hollywood Bowl on October 20 and NYC's Madison Square... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Albarn being carried off stage at Roskilde 2015 Damon Albarn played Denmark's Roskilde Festival over the weekend (7/4) as part of Africa Express, the project he founded that brings together Western and African musicians. Where most festival sets keep... more info

Time — In 2014, TIME dubbed Damon Albarn “The Hardest Working Man in Rock.” The Blur frontman lived up to that title on Sunday when he played a whopping five-hour set at the Roskilde festival in Denmark and only stopped because he was carried off the st... more info

Stereogum — Denmark’s Roskilde Festival ended this past weekend, and concertgoers who made it to the Africa Express supergroup set were treated with a very special performance by Damon Albarn. The Blur and Gorillaz frontman played a 5-hour set that came to an ... more info