Blur

With no hologram Tupac in sight to steal the spotlight from the other acts this year, the line-up for this year’s Coachella has been announced, with The Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers scheduled to headline the festival which takes place over two weekends. Coachella will be returning to Empire Polo Grounds [...]

Following on from his remarkable Africa Express project, Damon Albarn has been commissioned to create an audio collage that will be simultaneously broadcast on every BBC radio station across the UK and globe as part of Radio Reunited, a celebration of BBC Radio’s 90th birthday. [...]

Despite declaring that their Olympic closing ceremony performance at Hyde Park at the the end of this summer was Blur‘s final show, it appears that the contrary is in fact the case and the British band will be reuniting for the biggest rock festival in Belgium next year. [...]

Blur frontman Damon Albarn has revealed that the popular London band formerly known as Seymour would be interested in making a movie soundtrack. [...]

Iconic underground emcee Tech N9ne is next up to the plate for DJBooth‘s Re-Produced series, which tasks three hand-selected producers with reworking a track from a reader-approved artist. Taken from the Strange Music rapper’s 2012 EP, Klusterfuk, the “Blur” cut gets transformed into a four-track EP, as Shane Eli, The Sleepwalkers and Soulslicers give their [...]

Two years after their last release, legendary British alternative rock band Blur is back with some brand new material. The follows up their 2010 single “Fool’s Day” with not one, but two new tracks. [...]

Months on from a lengthy ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ thank-you speech and performance at the BRIT Awards in February, Blur frontman Damon Albarn reveals that the band’s upcoming special headline show at London’s Hyde Park, marking the end of the Olympic Games on August 12, might well be their last. [...]

Released by Parlophone Records on May 7, Dr Dee is the upcoming album by singer-songwriter Damon Albarn. The Blur vocalist and Gorillaz mastermind’s new record is inspired by John Dee – the noted Elizabethan mathematician and astronomer. [...]