Brooklyn Vegan — Courtney Barnett @ Baby's All Right's second day in business (more by Amanda Hatfield) Courtney Barnett is opening for Blur at Madison Square Garden on Friday (tickets). She'll stick around the city to play a much smaller venue, Baby's All... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Blur 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

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Damon 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

Stereogum — Blur: 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

Stereogum — Last 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

Stereogum — Blur 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

Reuters — Big 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

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