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

3553 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

3570 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

3591 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

3592 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

3594 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

3602 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”

3633 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

3643 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

Damon Albarn Recording New Gorillaz Album In September

3648 days ago
StereogumThe 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

Damon Albarn confirms new Gorillaz album

3648 days ago
The TelegraphThe Blur frontman will start recording a new record with the virtual band in September more info

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