Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the FREE Blur show at Music Hall of Williamsburg, their first in NYC with Graham Coxon since 2000, become available today at noon. "Fans who receive a confirmed 'ticket' will be allowed to enter the venue on... more info

Stereogum — Blur’s comeback album The Magic Whip is a quiet, experimental piece of work, but the lads still found time to record something zany. The hilariously titled bonus track “Y’all Doomed” is a playfully frantic, mostly instrumental rave-up that ma... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As mentioned, Blur are playing The Tonight Show on Thursday and we wondered if they might do a show while here...and yes they are. Blur will play Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday (5/1). It's an early show (Trail... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Weepies' Sirens and Mew's + - are my favorite new music releases this week. Blur's The Magic Whip, Robert Pollard's Faulty Superheroes, and Mumford & Sons: Wilder Mind are also out today. Reissues include vinyl editions of three... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Blur's new album, The Magic Whip, is out this week and the band will be here in NYC to play The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night (4/30). That will mark the band's first US appearance since... more info

MTV.co.uk News — A new album, a reformation, could this be the news we’ve all been waiting for? more info

Nialler9 — It never looked like it was ever going to happen but 12 years after the mournful last Blur album Think Tank completed without guitarist Graham Coxon. We’ve had Gorillaz, the reunion shows in Hyde Park, Glastonbury and even Ireland’s own Oxegen, ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Blur have already released a few songs from The Magic Whip, their first album in 12 years and first in 16 years to feature Graham Coxon on the whole thing. It's finally out next week (4/27) via Parlophone, but... more info

Stereogum — After a long run of singles that included “Go Out,” “There Are Too Many Of Us,” “Lonesome Street,” and “My Terracotta Heart,” Blur has made their new album The Magic Whip available for streaming. It’s their first record together sin... more info

The Telegraph — Blur's first album in 12 years is everything fans could have hoped for, says Helen Brown more info