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Ten Underrated Gorillaz Songs You Need to Hear

If you’re a Gorillaz fan, you’re most likely ecstatic right now. We’re currently in Phase 4 of this virtual band’s story, and it has certainly been fascinating so far. With their fifth studio album (Humanz) slated for release on April…

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Music News: Gorillaz Animated Series in the Works

  It’s been six years since alternative rock band Gorillaz last blessed the world with an album, but thankfully the wait is coming to an end soon. As if a new album and tour isn’t enough, co-creator and lead artist,…

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Gorillaz Announce New Album, Drop Four New Songs

Feel good again, because Gorillaz are back. The cartoon alt-rock band, lead by brit-pop legend Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, made Thursday their work day as they finally revealed big details of their impending fifth album. It’s titled Humanz (how ironic)…

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From the Record Crate: “The Good, The Bad & The Queen” (2007)

In Britian, Damon Albarn is well known as the lead singer for Blur and leading light in the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s In the U.S., he’s more familiar to people as his alter ego “2D,” the lead singer of…

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From the Record Crate: Blur – “Blur”

In the Disney film Mulan, the Emperor of China says, “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all.” Of course, he isn’t trying to reference Blur’s eponymous fifth album with this line, but…

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From the Record Crate: Blur – “Leisure” (1991)

Today, Blur is considered one of the greatest British bands of all time. In 1991, however, its future was unclear. When the band entered the alternative rock scene with Leisure, an album that fit in with the dance-oriented “baggy” music…

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Ten Underrated Blur Songs You Need to Hear

25 years ago this month, Blur released their debut album Leisure. The album was the start of a glorious future for the four-piece Britpop group, whose impressive discography currently includes eight studio albums and twenty-nine singles. Because Blur has so many…