NME — Blur frontman joins local band The Gents on stage in The Red Lion more info

Stereogum — Oasis and Blur may mark the official beginning of Britpop with the twin classics of Definitely Maybe and Parklife, respectively, but some people — particularly, seemingly, in music-writer circles — claim Pulp’s Different Class as the genre’s ... more info

Stereogum — It’s hard to imagine a better way to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Blur’s Parklife than singing along to the title track with an entire East London pub and Damon Albarn himself. For whatever reason, Albarn got on stage at a Leytonstone p... more info

Stereogum — It was a profoundly strange experience to type out the headline “Parklife Turns 20.” More so than the other anniversaries I’ve written for Stereogum, the fact that landmark Pulp, Blur, and Oasis albums are arriving at their twentieth anniversar... more info

MTV.co.uk News — We check out the Blur frontman's latest offering right here... more info

ContactMusic — Blur frontman Damon Albarn thrilled drinkers at a pub in London this week (ends27Apr14) by putting on an impromptu performance.The British rocker was... more info

ContactMusic — Damon Albarn took heroin ''for years'' in the recording studio. The Blur frontman, who claims the drug helped him to be ''creative'', admits he took... more info

Stereogum — Since we’re already running a big Oasis sweepstakes we just had to have one for the other titan and rival of the genre. Plus, it wouldn’t be a proper Britpop Week if we didn’t include tea somehow. The official Blur Britannia Tea Set we’re giv... more info

ContactMusic — Damon Albarn found heroin ''very agreeable''. The Blur frontman, who began taking the drug in the 1990s after he came home to find then-girlfriend... more info

Stereogum — Akin to the early-’90s post-Nirvana feeding frenzy in the Pacific Northwest, the Britpop explosion of the mid-’90s spawned a similar slash-and-burn signing boom on the other side of the pond. And as with post-Nirvana culture, the milieu surroundi... more info