Tagged: gorillaz + damonalbarn

Truth be known, I know only a reprehensibly negligible amount about The Child of Lov , aka NL eccentric Cole Williams, other than he's a predilection for pineapple and ran with the whole anonymity thing for a while back there. Though out from the shadows and into the fray, he this week released his eponymous début full-length on Domino imprint Double Six – a record we neglected to review purely due to the above reasoning that we didn't really know enough of him to come out with anything cogent. Though no matter, for what must surely be an album standout [...]

• The Child Of Lov - One Day (featuring Damon Albarn)

Hello, and welcome to Monday. And so we begin: as Bryan Ferry once conceded on Roxy's itself straight-up sublime If There Is Something number from their eponymous début effort, "to keep a straight course not easy." And however the weekend just gone treated you, he, for one, has done his fair share of slicing himself up with that straight-edge lifestyle and allowing in all manner of ill. Though why the witter? Well, because it is down a comparable pitfall of elaborate overindulgence and limitless intoxication the length and breadth of England itself that the Happy Mondays so often [...]

• Happy Mondays - Halleiujah (Club Mix)
• Happy Mondays - Step On (Twisting My Melon Mix)

Ah London 2012. A time of great prosperity; of sporting prowess and cross-cultural celebration! For many (mostly so-called Games Makers , I'd cynically presuppose) those were what one may deem the days – ones spent slobbing about glued to incomprehensible excuses for sport to be revered as a wholly worthwhile alternative to actual work . An elephantine sandpit was plonked down right outside Buckingham Palace, littered with a multiethnic scantily clad and the place was supposedly all the better for it, whilst fortunes were blown on tickets modestly priced at anything up to £2,012. God it [...]

In our never-ending pursuit to provoke thought and conversation, we present our newest editorial series, Armchair A&R . This platform will allow us to speak freely on moves we wish our favorite artists would make, though they probably never will. But let's make one thing clear: Everything set forth here is highly speculative and isn't meant to question the creative integrity of said artists. Our first edition deals with De La Soul , an obvious Potholes favorite—just look at our website's name. With two absolute hits in "Feel Good Inc." and "Superfast Jellyfish", we were wondering [...]

There's been a lot of love for Damon Albarn over the last few months, which could quickly turn to disdain if we don't get either a new Blur album or a North American date sometime next summer , but for the moment, the good vibes are going strong. More evidence: Phish frontman Trey Anastasio covered Gorillaz's breakthrough single, "Clint Eastwood," for his forthcoming solo album, Traveler . The arrangement is pretty true to the original, with Anastasio doing a rather credible Albarn impression on the chorus, and Anastasio collaborator Jennifer Hartswick totally updating the sound of [...]

Photos by G. Damon Albarn and Geoffrey Dicker You gotta love New York.  One minute, you are on the Upper West Side, the next minute you find out Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz is going to be  way the hell across town within a matter of minutes.  Always up for a challenge, I made a quick pit stop at my apartment to pick up some cds and  hustled my arse down to SoHo.  Of course to add a little excitement to the mix, a tornado [...]

Durante el fin de semana, el expreso África del Norte partió de Londres para comenzar su viaje de seis días a través de Inglaterra. A bordo del tren va un colectivo de 80 músicos dirigidos por Damon Albarn y con Amadou & Mariam , Bombay Bicycle Club , The Temper Trap , 'Carl Barat de The Libertines, Nick Zinner de The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tony Allen y más.

Something happened when Damon Albarn broke up with Justine Frischmann way back when. He became depressed and started writing some of his most emotionally introspective music which was a stretch from his usual analysis of English middle-class culture. He then travelled to Africa where he did a lot of mind-altering drugs and met his new partner who he has since had a daughter with. This change transformed Albarn into one of the most prolific songwriters, collaborators and producers of anyone in British music over the last ten years. His work included Gorillaz, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Rocket [...]

Releasing his first proper studio album in almost two decades, soul and R&B legend, Bobby Womack, is back in the limelight with a stunningly modern album, its quality matching, and in some cases, surpassing his best work. The Bravest Man in the Universe is a collaboration between the XL label’s Richard Russell and the Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn (whose 2010 album, Plastic Beach , Womack made a guest appearance on.) The 68 year old singer’s world weary voice and unique personality carry the record, which is not to say that there isn’t some electrifying music backing him, no [...]

Holy-cats it's Blur ! We haven't heard from them since 20102s "Fool's Day," a one off for that year's Record Store Day. So why two new songs? Why now? Is an album on the way? A tour? No one knows, but we can sure as hell hope. "Under the Westway" is a pretty ballad that showcases just how strong and distinct Damon Albarn's voice remains after all these years. Carried by its pleasant piano, and wonderful background vocals the song really stands out when it gets loud. Littering the song are sharp fits of heavy, distorted guitar [...]

Damon Albarn doesn't deserve our love. We want Blur and he gives us … anything but. Sure, Blur is doing a handful of reunion shows in Europe this summer (the total cost to attend if you are a fan living in America? Something in the five-digit range), but a world tour is reportedly out of the question. And a new album? Well, in a recent issue of NME , William Orbit admitted that he had been recording with the band, but Albarn killed those sessions; as Orbit tweeted : "Blur could have been good. But Damon, brilliant and [...]

Stereogum Damon Albarn doesn't deserve our love. We want Blur and he gives us … anything but. Sure, Blur is doing a handful of reunion shows in Europe this summer (the total cost to attend if you are a fan living in America? Something in the five-digit range), but a world tour is reportedly out of the question. And a new album? Well, in a recent issue of NME , William Orbit admitted that he had been recording with the band, but Albarn killed those sessions; as [...]

Hace poco escribí en relación a algunas declaraciones que había hecho Damon Albarn , la cabeza de Gorillaz y Blur, sobre la posible separación de ambas agrupaciones. En ese momento todo apuntaba a que las relaciones estaban bien y que nadie se separaría. Parece que eso, si bien no fue desmentido, podría cambiar en un futuro. Al menos lo que está relacionado a Gorillaz. Al parecer en el futuro se podría lanzar un nuevo disco de la banda de los monos sin Jamie Hewlett . En una entrevista que le [...]

Damon Albarn negó que tanto Blur como Gorillaz hayan llegado a su fin, a pesar de que a principios de este mes el compositor sugirió todo lo contrario en una entrevista con The Guardian . En la mencionada entrevista, Albarn confesó que tenía pocas ganas de continuar con la reunión de Blur y con su proyecto [...]

La storia infinita. Prima mesi di dichiarazioni (incluse quelle di Graham Coxon ) su un presunto nuovo album in lavorazione, una ritrovata armonia di gruppo, inediti lasciati trapelare dal vivo . Poi la doccia fredda. Ora Damon Albarn torna a parlare dei Blur e dei Gorillaz in un' intervista all'edizione britannica di "Metro" . Domanda diretta ("I Blur e i Gorillaz sono finiti?"), risposta altrettanto diretta: No. Questa voce arriva da un articolo da cui è stata estrapolata una parte interessante di una conversazione molto lunga. Non [...]

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It looks like we won't have to go memorializing Gorillaz and Blur after all. While being interviewed by Metro UK , Damon Albarn was asked if this was really the end of his two most noteworthy bands. "No. That comes from an article which was an interesting take on a very long conversation," Albarn said, referencing his recent interview in The Guardian . "I don’t know how we'll feel when we [Blur] [...]

Al final de la primera semana de abril nos llegó una noticia que, a los más fanáticos, nos dejó un tanto shockeados. Hablo de las declaraciones de Damon Albarn en relación al posible final de Gorillaz y Blur . Considerando que esto venía de uno de los cerebros tanto de la agrupación de los monos como de la impulsora del britpop había que tenerla muy en cuenta. Ahora, por suerte, él mismo salió a desmentir sus declaraciones (sí, debe estar un tanto tocado de la cabeza) y negó que Gorillaz y Blur estén terminados . [...]

So remember when everyone was sad to hear that Damon Albarn was pretty much calling it quits with Blur and Gorillaz ? Turns out the guy has had a change of heart. In an interview with Metro , Albarn said that neither of those bands are finished and that we may even get some new stuff from them in the future. Regarding Blur, Albarn said, "Some days I feel one way and other days I feel the other. If you don’t see something as a career but [...]

Earlier this month, the Guardian published an interview with Damon Albarn that had strong hints that Albarn was hanging up ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ blur-and-gorillaz-not-finished -probably-says-damon/64658/