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Wrapping up Gorillaz's Escape to Plastic Beach tour in Auckland, New Zealand, Damon Albarn said, 'This is the last time .. we may never do that again.'
Read more: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/w0009138.htmlWrapping up Gorillaz's Escape to Plastic Beach tour in Auckland, New Zealand,... more
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Fronting both Blur and Gorillaz, the British musician refuses to make peace with the popular TV show because it trampled The Beatles' chart history.
Read more: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/w0009120.htmlFronting both Blur and Gorillaz, the British musician refuses to make peace with the... more
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Some great music news for fans of Gorillaz and Damon Albarn alike. Turns out Damon has been recording an album on his iPad with Tony Allen and Flea, with a hope it'll be the first album released to be recorded with the technology.
He hopes the album will be released before Christmas, after they have just finished a tour of the US.
""I fell in love with my iPad as soon as I got it, so I've made a completely different kind of record," he said. "It's ironic, being the sort of technophobe and Luddite that I am." "-GuardianSome great music news for fans of Gorillaz and Damon Albarn alike. Turns out Damon has... more
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D&AD Student Awards 2009 - First Prize Winner (Music Video Category)
Music video for 'Pigsy in Space', a track from David Albarn's Monkey Project. We tried to contextualise the ancient chinese myth; Monkey, Journey to the West - representing it within our contemporary society, complete with it’s breaches of human rights and third world exploitation.D&AD Student Awards 2009 - First Prize Winner (Music Video Category)
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Blur already created a exclusive track for Record Store Day, though it sounds like the band enjoyed the process again because it was announced by Damon Albarn more Blur songs are due for the future.
"But asked how he felt about Blur, Damon told the NME: "I'm definitely going to do a few more of those 7ins and at some point in the undetermined future there will be a record at the end of it."-UKPABlur already created a exclusive track for Record Store Day, though it sounds like the... more
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Despite a couple delays in sentencing, Lil’ Wayne is destined for jail time. With this inevitability, Lil’ Wayne has been cramming in as much music production as possible. A plethora of songs and videos have been made within a tiny span of time. He’s definitely putting in a lot of work, but is it necessary? Or better yet, is it smart?
It was highly publicized that Wayne would be shooting seven videos in one night. And who knows how many songs he has recorded for the time he is away. Expected jail time is one year, so it’s no surprise someone who would be disappearing for a year, would want to pump out as much material as possible so people wouldn’t forget them. However, Wayne is one of the most popular juggernauts in all of music. Even if there was no music of his to leak while he’s gone, people are not going to forget him.
What Wayne should have done is not rush through the music-making process at all. He could have used prison as a great way to explore creativity and as a time for self-reflection. One could even argue that more hype would have surrounded Tha Carter IV if he did in fact wait until after prison to begin work on it. But, I can’t blame him. Artists like Wayne who pump out music as quickly as possible are the result of the listener. For every good song Wayne has, he has three horrible ones. And the listener could be to blame for this.
“Drop albums non-stop once a year for my fans’ sake” – Ludacris
Ludacris managed to throw down one of the truest statements ever in his song, Number One Spot. Ludacris was easily a fan favorite in the first half of the previous decade as he was dropping an album once a year. Between 2000 and 2006, Ludacris dropped an album every year. He had four solo albums and two collaborative albums. Ludacris eyed that number one spot because he knew what the fans wanted and needed: the constant dropping of music. Ludacris now drops albums every couple years, and has seen a decline in popularity because of it.
Most hip-hop fans now appear to be impatient and needy. We’ve seen a rise in mixtape popularity due to this. A rapper’s career now lives and dies with how much music they are able to release. Even sometimes that’s not even enough. As fans grow weary as they wait for an album, they’ll need a couple CDQ album leaks to tide them over and keep their interest. This problem is not only affecting rappers, but the blogs as well.
Hip-hop blogs, such as 2dopeboyz, almost seem to throw anything and everything on their sites. Do hip-hop fans really need 10 B.o.B interviews a day? There’s no possible way everyone’s favorite two dope boyz listen to and watch everything they post. They even admit to it sometimes on the post. What makes it worst is that the good things they actually do post becomes buried so quickly. The idea of a good blog has simply become a copy-and-paste world where you don’t even have to listen to the product you are promoting. The listener needs a never-ending supply of music, so the more you post, the more popular you are.
The best commentary to deal with issue is on the new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach. It’s been a whole five years since Damon Albarn and his cartoon band’s last album, Demon Days. During the span, Albarn did spend some time on other projects, but also spent a considerable amount of time crafting the third Gorillaz album. Now, one can argue how Albarn has been heavily involved in the evolution of hip-hop music, despite not being a hip-hop artist himself.
The song, Superfast Jellyfish, is the perfect atonement to the problem that is lack of quality in hip-hop and music in general. The song plays out as a catchy jingle for an instant breakfast. Like we’ve always been told, breakfast is the most important and essential meal of the day, much like how music is important and essential for the majority of us. As much as we believe that the idea of an instant meal is the most beneficial for us in today’s fast-paced society, it’s just not as good as a well-thought out and planned breakfast. Even the name of the album can play into the theory of hurried music being played off as quality. A beach is a paradise, however a plastic beach is just fake and a letdown of what could have been.
Sure, one could bring up the fact that the Beatles were releasing an album or two every year back in the 1960s. What you have to keep in mind is a lot of what they were putting out were covers, and a lot of the songs were just around two minutes in length. And just like any band that produces a lot of songs, they have a lot of throwaway songs. Imagine how a couple of their albums could have been even stronger if they were merged together with selected tracks. And, keep in mind their most notorious albums do have at least year apart from one another.
Quantity versus quality will forever be a battle in the music industry. With the moving-in-light-speed society we have today it seems we may be forever doomed in an overabundance of music released while we pretend what we’re hearing is actually good. Hip hop has become a plastic beach.Despite a couple delays in sentencing, Lil’ Wayne is destined for jail time.... more
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Blur's lead singer Damon Albarn, speaking in the new film 'No Distance Left To Run', which chronicles the bands rise from Britpop darlings to reunion legends, admitted that heroin created problems for the band in the early 90s.
"That whole period of a lot of people's lives was fairly muddied by heroin. It's in that place. A lot of stuff was at that time."
The film, trailer below, will now be shown at very select Odeon and Picturehouse cinemas country wide from January 19, in addition to the Broadway Nottingham Cinema. The DVD version of No Distance Left To Run will be released on February 15.
Scroll down to watch the trailer.
http://drownedinsound.com/news/4138843-damon-albarn-admits-blur-were-muddied-by-heroin-useBlur's lead singer Damon Albarn, speaking in the new film 'No Distance Left... more
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A full length documentary on Blur and their recent comeback tour is due to hit the cinemas on January 19th.
Titled 'No Distance Left To Run', the film covers the band's 2009 rehearsals and brilliant summer tour.
Woo hoo!
http://www.blur.co.uk/A full length documentary on Blur and their recent comeback tour is due to hit the... more
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Damon Albarn, the man behind the virtual band The Gorillaz, is teaming up with the Horrors for a track to be featured on the new Gorillaz album slated for release sometime next year.Damon Albarn, the man behind the virtual band The Gorillaz, is teaming up with the... more
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I was there when Blur played Hyde Park on Friday 3rd of July and it had everything a gig should have. Amazing songs, Britpop icons reunited after years apart, a random couple rutting on the outskirts of the crowd. Heady days.
Thrillingly, loads of Blur song titles can be tweaked to fit the occasion:
Porklife, Song Ew, That Is A Low, To The End (Away) etc.I was there when Blur played Hyde Park on Friday 3rd of July and it had everything a... more
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In preparation for their summer festival frolics, recently-reformed Britpop boys, Blur, have let it be known that they're playing three more warm-up shows this summer.
Probably down to the fact that Albarn et al have sold out for their gigs in London and Colchester, they'll be playing at Southend Cliff Pavillion (June 21st), Wolverhampton Civic Hall (24th) and Newcastle O2 Academy (25th).In preparation for their summer festival frolics, recently-reformed Britpop boys,... more
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In the late 1990's Jamie Hewlett met Damon Albarn and the concept of Gorillaz was born sometime after. At the birth of the project, film maker Ceri Levy set about to document this undertaking. The result is Bananaz, an honest, often hilarious account of the working relationship between Albarn & Hewlett, and the rise to success with Gorillaz - from the initial embryonic conception through to global domination.
You can watch the whole 90-minute film at the link, for free, for the next month.In the late 1990's Jamie Hewlett met Damon Albarn and the concept of Gorillaz was... more
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And so continues their assault on the UK summer festival season after it's been announced that Blur will be headlining the T In The Park festival on July 11th.
Damon Albarn and his boys will be sharing the bill with Snow Patrol, the Kings of Leon and erm, Katy Perry. More acts will no doubt be added over the coming months.
Seems there's no escaping Blur's comeback...And so continues their assault on the UK summer festival season after it's been... more
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Following the rumours they're reforming, Blur have told the NME they're going to play some gigs together, their first with their original lineup since Graham Coxon left in 2002.
As well as gigs around the country, on Friday, July 3rd, the band play a headling show in Hyde Park. Tickets go on sale on Friday 12th December at 9am GMT and they're rumoured to be playing the 2009 Glastonbury festival.
Talking about Blur's return, Albarn said "It just felt it was right again. It somehow feels like there's something for us to do again, we're not completely useless or pointless, we've got a reason to exist."Following the rumours they're reforming, Blur have told the NME they're... more
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Finally!
After weeks of hearsay and gossip about the classic 90's Brtipop boys getting back together, Damon Albarn has said, during a live broadcast set to be aired on Radio 2, that the band were "certainly going to rehearse and see if we're into it."Finally!
After weeks of hearsay and gossip about the classic 90's Brtipop... more
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Damon Albarn's got that rumour mill going again, after speaking to Sky News.
He suggested he has buried the hatchet with former band mate, gorgeous geek Graham Coxon, paving the way for the band to get back together.
He said the same thing to Radio 1's Newsbeat earlier this month, which current.com user saytenvoneryk posted (see link below.)
I for one would be thrilled to see the lads back together even if only for a short time.
I wonder if Albarn can persuade Alex James to take a break from his rural idyll and relive those glory days?
Would you guys like to see it?
More at the link: http://tinyurl.com/63za4aDamon Albarn's got that rumour mill going again, after speaking to Sky News.... more
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