Gorillaz may be an animated band, but the world they live in is not entirely apart from our own. Virtual rockers 2D, Murdoc, Noodle, and Russel visit the same cities, put up with the same politicians, and admire the same…
Top 50 Best Albums of 2020
What will you remember the most about 2020? Better question: Do you want to remember 2020? We can’t blame you if you don’t. It’s been a very bad year for many reasons. In the world of music, this year saw…
Top 20 Gorillaz Songs
When Gorillaz first stepped foot in the music industry arena, nothing had been proven, aside from Albarn’s prior successes with Blur. No “virtual” or “cartoon” band had ever seen immense success outside of TV shows, or movies. Many of the…
Album Review: Gorillaz perfect the single on “Song Machine, Season One”
Gorillaz were never outstanding at being normal. Their entire concept was built around a unique, cartoon-and-internet band experience that no other group had succeeded with, at the time of their creation. So chalk it up to strange times of pandemics,…
The TYF Midyear Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs from the First Half of 2020
As a companion to our recent midyear album list, some of our writers have put together playlists of their favorite album cuts and singles of the first six months of 2020. Here are those playlists, introduced in a similar manner…
From the Record Crate: Gorillaz – “Demon Days” (2005)
The design is simple, but memorable: four panels against a black background. It’s reminiscent of the cover art for Let It Be—but instead of the Beatles, we’re looking at cartoon characters, illustrated in varying hues and degrees of suspicion. In…
Five Songs for a “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” Playlist
If you find yourself stuck in bat country, or on the Las Vegas Strip, you’ve probably fallen into Hunter S. Thompson’s trap that is his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Can’t say I’m surprised, it happens to…