Damon Albarn: "Blur", The "Gorillaz" and Other Fables: "Blur", The "Gorillaz" and Other Fables
Strange News From The Plankton (Free subscription) | yesterday
A bit of a break with traditional reading patterns this time: a biography - indeed, an auto biography. For reasons I can't entirely pin down, I've never been interested in reading anything beyond fiction or popular treatments of science, etc. Although I've enjoyed the occasional biographical asides in the latter, and the veiled hint that the former are partially biography, I've not felt the need to...
www.widyanto.tk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Blur Drummer Dave Rowntree Explains His Political Candidacy: Can playing rhythmic backbone in a band that inclu.. http://bit.ly/U8uPp
The Sun (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
BLUR singer Damon Albarn steps out in cheap and cheerful T-shirt with '99p' logo
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
BLUR rocker-turned-wannabe politician DAVE ROWNTREE is pessimistic about his chances of winning a seat in the U.K. Parliament at next year's (10) general election.The...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Filed under: News , UK Politics is a tough field to be in, possibly even tougher than music, according to Blur 's Dave Rowntree, who is running for a Labour Party seat in the U.K.'s next general election. The drummer, whose band toyed with fans' hearts by briefly reuniting at Glastonbury and other festivals earlier this year, is competing for a seat in the Cities of London and Westminster constituency....
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
The Labour Party candidate for Cities Of London And Westminster says politics is a "slog"
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Watch Damon Albarn and co rock out 'Song 2' as plastic figures
caffeine-headache (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
After finding fame in both Joy Division and New Order, Bernard Sumner returns with a new band, named after Harvey Keitel’s most controversial film, Bad Lieutenant. Sumner is joined by fellow vocalist Jake Evans, which sees the two sharing...
PO Ferries' Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Tomas Mowlam looks at one of Paris’ best alternative music festivals. Les Inrocks will be kicking out the jams throughout Paris from 3 – 10 November. Now out of its teenage years Les Inrocks has moved into more balanced territory with a key theme across most of the venues, but it still boasts some of [...]
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
London trio the Golden Silvers made their first trek to the States this week for CMJ. They're buzzing overseas (did Jools Holland, won Glastonbury's New Talent competition in '08, playing the festival in '09, features in NME , etc.), but so far things are quieter Stateside. In fact, it took a tip from a friend to point our ears in the proper direction. Thankfully they did: We were able to catch them...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- a2f2a, the net’s first artist-to-fan-to-artist site, went online yesterday. Its first post, Bringing artsts and fans together, generated 23 comments, most of them on target (and none of them vitriolic ) by 8:50 am Pacific today. Today, the big news is: members of the Featured Artists [...]
A Future in Noise (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
I am proud to announce today that our sister site, A Future in Noise Music Videos , has hit 1,000 unique videos posted. This is powered by Tumblr, functional as a channel due to the RANDOM button, with an assortment of embedded music videos from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s, posted daily. Started in July, it's already the #2 Tumblr tagged as "video" and we have over 100 followers....
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The Trailer Trash Tracys have a name that bears no resemblance to the sound they make. You might be expecting some raw garage-rock band but ‘Candy Girl’ (No Pain in Pop 7”, red vinyl) is slow and expectant shoegazing, full of reverb and echoey vocals. It’s like early My Bloody Valentine or the JAMC on high dosage diazepam. It creates a beautifully woozy atmosphere with a very...
Gaming Rover - The News You Want (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Warner Bros and MTV Games have announced that popular UK Band Blur will be featured in their upcoming rhythm game LEGO Rock Band. The game will feature the likeness of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree as LEGO mini figures, performing the group’s hit track ‘Song 2.’ LEGO Rock Band for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii is currently in...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Filed under: News Here at Spinner Towers, we take an unashamedly positive view of 'Lego Rock Band.' After all, what more fun can you have than playing along to you favourite songs than if those behind them have been immortalised in plastic, fit-together form? Hot on the heels of the news players being able to choose a Lego David Bowie , comes news the worlds of Britpop and educational toys have taken...
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