Blog: PopMatters

Los Angeles Times (MCT) -- LOS ANGELES - When the sprawling British ensemble Gorillaz reunited to close out the final night of Coachella in April, anyone familiar with the band might have been shocked at what they saw. Gorillaz, co-founded a decade ago by Blur frontman and U.K. rock macher Damon Albarn and the comic artist Jamie Hewlett, was conceived as a kind of wry Pop Art comment. So many chart-toppers felt vapid and cartoonish, the duo's thinking went, that...