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Blur played Hollywood Bowl, brought out Fred Armisen for "Parklife" (video, setlist); MSG show is Friday

3479 days ago
Brooklyn VeganBlur w/ Fred Armisen @ Hollywood Bowl 10/20/2015 (via @wbr) Blur are in America as we speak and played their first of two shows in the country on Tuesday night (10/20) at LA's Hollywood Bowl. Unlike their show at Music... more info

Blur's Damon Albarn is the ultimate musical multitasker these days

3480 days ago
L.A. Times - EntertainmentDamon Albarn is a busier man than he used to be. Back in the Britpop '90s, it was enough to just be singer for the band Blur, merging social commentary with hooks and vivid melodies while navigating a media-fueled rivalry with Oasis. Even then, he se... more info

Watch A Trailer For Blur’s “Hybrid Concert Film” New World Towers

3481 days ago
StereogumBlur: New World Towers is marketed as “a vital hybrid performance film about Blur.” Directed by Sam Wrench, the film stitches together clips from two gigs last summer at London’s Hyde Park and Hong Kong’s Convention And Exposition Centre alon... more info

(What’s the Story) Morning Glory? Turns 20

3498 days ago
StereogumLast month, we marked the 20th anniversary of Blur’s The Great Escape: the complicated conclusion to that band’s Britpop trilogy; an album that lives on as a sprawling and flawed but fascinating and mostly great work. Just under a month later, Oa... more info

The Great Escape Turns 20

3519 days ago
StereogumBlur had arrived. They had achieved what they had set out to do. After the disillusioning experience of being partially forced into a set of already-dying English trends with their 1991 debut Leisure and the miserable U.S. tour that followed, Damon A... more info

GQ Men of the Year awards

3521 days ago
ReutersBig names from the world of music, sport and film descended on the GQ Men of the Year awards in London on Tuesday. Blur bassist Alex James made an awkward red carpet faux pas when he mistook Lionel Richie for Lionel Messi. He joked the former Commodo... more info

Blur – “I Broadcast” Video

3522 days ago
StereogumBlur’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

Watch Damon Albarn Perform “Mr. Tembo” For The Elephant Who Inspired The Song

3530 days ago
StereogumLast 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

Blur’s Graham Coxon Thinks Kanye West Is “A Big Fucking Idiot”

3562 days ago
StereogumToday 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

Blur’s Drum Tech Writes Their Setlists

3571 days ago
StereogumI 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

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