Tag Archives: Damon Albarn

WATCH: Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn End Britpop Feud

By | Posted on March 25th, 2013
Gallagher and Albarn perform Blur's "Tender" together at the Teenager Cancer Trust concert (Yui Mok/PA)

For anyone who followed Britpop in the 1990s, this news may come as a shock: Noel Gallagher of Oasis performed on stage with Blur’s Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon on Saturday. I’ll give you a second to pick your jaw up off the ...

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Happy 90th Birthday, The BBC!

By | Posted on November 14th, 2012
BBC90

Today is the anniversary of the very first broadcast by the BBC, back in 1922. It was just a radio signal at the time, made by what was then called the British Broadcasting Company (it was later incorporated).

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The Brit List: Summer of London – 10 Great London Songs

By | Posted on July 24th, 2012

“The Lambeth Walk”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CPRVRiJ7QQ&feature=related

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Five Great British Songs Re-imagined By American Artists

By | Posted on August 31st, 2011

Willie Nelson, no shrinking violet in the songwriting stakes himself, has lent his distinctively weathered vocal tones to a cover version of the Coldplay song “The Scientist,” which has been used as the soundtrack to a ...

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News Roundup: Daniel Craig Hates Facebook and Twitter, James Corden’s Baby Anxiety, and Jay-Z Hearts Elbow

By | Posted on August 2nd, 2011

For all that his character James Bond is adept with modern technology, you won’t see Daniel Craig settling down with an iPad to put his innermost feelings on social networking sites. He’s not a fan: “I am bloody not ...

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Will Blur Tour America Again?

By | Posted on June 23rd, 2011

If you’re one of the many U.S.

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It’s a Britpop April Fool

By | Posted on April 1st, 2011

It’s a nerve-wracking time for gossip enthusiasts, April 1st. Out there, minds immeasurably inferior to our own are attempting to have a little fun with the April Fool’s Day tradition by coming up with silly stories that ...

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Damon Albarn Prepares New Elizabethan Opera

By | Posted on March 18th, 2011

Anyone who still thought that former Blur frontman Damon Albarn was just a showboating mockney popinjay – and bumptious to boot – is probably going to have to give in to the overwhelming body of evidence to the contrary, if ...

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Music Roundup: The Quizzical Brilliance of Fujiya & Miyagi

By | Posted on January 25th, 2011

Brighton, England’s Fujiya & Miyagi return with their first album in three years with Ventriloquizzing. It’s another fascinating trip inside the foursome’s eccentric electronic sonicsphere, but this time they joined ...

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Music Roundup: ‘All You Need Is’ Duran Duran

By | Posted on December 21st, 2010

Out today is the new album from English new wave legends Duran Duran. All You Need Is Now marks the quartet’s 13th studio album, which is being hailed a solid return to form à la their 1982 classic LP, Rio.

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