MTV.co.uk News — Damon Albarn is working on an opera based on the life of an Elizabethan alchemist. The musician has recently been busy with his cartoon group Gorillaz and reforming Blur but has found time to prep... more info

MTV.com News — 'You can't, at this point, do holograms,' lead singer Damon Albarn explained.By James Montgomery Photo: MTV News For just about as long as they've been a (not real) band, Gorillaz have toyed with the idea of launching a full-blown, hologram-... more info

Pitchfork — We've got some new info on the opera that Gorillaz are working on with Watchmen scribe Alan Moore. According to an interview with Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett on Vulture, the opera is based on the life of Elizabethan English alchemist/m... more info

411 Mania — Plus an interview... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Rachel Carr Devo "An aggregate 225,000 people bought tickets to see a [Coachella] roster headlined by Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz during the April 16-18 event at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. The previous attendance record was set... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The past few nights of television have brought us, among other things, Neko Case playing with Bob Dylan's son, and then Broken Social Scene on Letterman, and the Gorillaz on the Colbert Report, but most importantly, from George Lopez... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Gorillaz @ Coachella (more by Rachel Carr) Videos from last night's episode of Colbert, below...... more info

VH1 News — Gorillaz's Damon Albarn loves La Roux but doesn't get Justin Bieber. "His hairstyle has really kind of captured the imagination," he told MTV News of Biebs. more info

Idolator — Recent Coachella performers Gorillaz appeared on The Colbert Report last night—or rather, the virtual band’s human “counterparts,” Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, did. The fact that 2D, Murdoc Niccals and the rest of the gang “stood up... more info

Stereogum — Damon managed to bring the better part of the expansive crew that lined the Coachella stage for Gorillaz’ headlining set to Colbert’s tiny Comedy Central studio in Manhattan, here working through the buoyantly demented disco of “Stylo,” armed... more info