Stereogum — Adele’s in full-on press mode now in support of her upcoming new record, 25, and her first major profile is with Rolling Stone, who followed her around for a bit quizzing her about new music and her bevy of collaborators for this album cycle. One o... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Blur at MSG - 10/23/15 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) photo: Mitski in McCarren Park in June (more by Amanda Hatfield) photo: Downtown Boys at Palisades in May (more by Alyssa Tanchajja) Blur have not been the most pleased... 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 — It’s been the subject of rumor and conjecture for a while, but now it’s confirmed: Damon Albarn’s simian supergroup Gorillaz, once thought to be extinct, are coming back next year with new music. And in a new Rolling Stone interview, Albarn had... more info

Stereogum — We knew Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett were working on a new Gorillaz album back in September, and now Hewlett has confirmed that the follow-up to 2010’s Plastic Beach will be out next year. He stated the following in an interview with DIY: That’... more info

Stereogum — Massive Attack were originally slated to headline the last night of festivities at Banksy’s pop-up “bemusement park” Dismaland, but after they pulled out, De La Soul closed out the proceedings with some help from a masked Damon Albarn, who came... 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

Stereogum — Adele’s got a bunch of superstar collaborators working on her upcoming highly-anticipated third record: Max Martin, Danger Mouse, Ryan Tedder, and Tobias Jesso Jr. are confirmed, and we know that Phil Collins was 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 — The 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