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Blur
album review
July 21, 2023
Blur’s Return Is a Fitting Evolution for a Once-Chaotic Band On their beautiful, occasionally plodding new album, the Britpop legends embrace stillness.
By Craig Jenkins
my single is dropping
May 18, 2023
Blur Is Back, Again, With New Song ‘The Narcissist’ Their first album in eight years, The Ballad of Darren , is out in July.
By Justin Curto
a long talk
Sept. 22, 2022
Come On, Live Happy A quarter-century of feuds, regrets, and (eventual) success with Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite.
By Brady Gerber
red table (taylor’s version)
Jan. 24, 2022
Taylor Swift’s Songwriting Skills Are a Blur to Damon Albarn “Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging,” she responded on Twitter.
By Alejandra Gularte
Interview: Damon Albarn Is Unfortunately Really Good at Predicting the Future His work with Gorillaz and Blur keeps telling us where we’re going as a society, even when where we’re going really sucks.
By Craig Jenkins
oral history
Apr. 25, 2017
Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher on the Making of Gorillaz’s ‘We Got the Power’ “I thought it might be cute, Noel and I singing about the power to love each other. Of course, no one’s asked Liam what he thinks about the song yet.”
By Lane Brown
celebrities having fun
Oct. 21, 2015
By Jesse David Fox
Marketing Gimmicks
May 14, 2015
The Band Blur Is Selling Its Very Own Ice Cream It’s vanilla custard with raspberry sauce — and it’s just like the cover of the band’s latest album.
By Clint Rainey
radio vulture
Apr. 28, 2015
Blur’s The Magic Whip Is a Weird, Lovely Return to Form The Magic Whip isn’t as immediate as the band’s most inspired work, but over repeated listens, I’ve found it blooms into something immersive, complex, and understatedly lovely.
By Lindsay Zoladz
feel sad inc
Apr. 18, 2015
By Greg Cwik
right-click
Sept. 23, 2013
By Lindsey Weber
What You’ve Missed at Coachella So Far A surprise cameo by R. Kelly, for one thing.
By Adam Martin
Blur’s Graham Coxon on the New Album Rumors “People are saying they want [an album], and that’s making us panic.”
By Lane Brown
Here Are Your Two New Blur Songs! Check out “Under the Westway” and “The Puritan.”
By Amanda Dobbins
the vulture transcript
May 9, 2012
Damon Albarn on Blur’s London Olympics Reunion “I just want to give everyone who turns up a really good send-off.”
By Nitsuh Abebe
vulture recommends
May 2, 2012
Vulture Recommends: Five Doleful Nineties Songs It’s a rainy spring day here in the northeast, so music critic Nitsuh Abebe has picked a quintet of slow, moody tunes.
By Gilbert Cruz
just kidding
Apr. 25, 2012
Damon Albarn Would Like to Take Back Those Blur-Gorillaz Comments “Some days I feel one way and other days I feel the other.” Clarity!
By Amanda Dobbins
Temporary Closings
Apr. 13, 2012
By Jay Barmann
non-reunions
Apr. 9, 2012
By Amanda Dobbins
graham coxon
Feb. 8, 2012
non-reunions
Nov. 3, 2011
By Amanda Dobbins
vulture lists
Mar. 24, 2011
By Amos Barshad
Damon Albarn’s New Opera Is Dropping This Summer “It’s based on the life of John Dee, who was a very influential force in Elizabethan Europe.”
By Amos Barshad
The Blur Reunion Isn’t Over Yet! “Well, we met up yesterday and had a really nice chat.”
By Amos Barshad
Damon Albarn Totally Up for Doing More Blur Songs “We can’t do it all the time. So I don’t want anyone to think there’s an album coming soon, it’s not possible, but we’ve got songs!”
By Lane Brown
parliament funkadelic
May 7, 2010
By Amos Barshad
Gorillaz on Skyping With Snoop Dogg and Their Next Opera “I did leave off a few songs that maybe had better melodies than these.”
By Lane Brown
Blur to Release Two New Songs! The four members of Blur will take a short break from their opera-writing, political-office-seeking, and cheese-making to record their first single in seven years.
By Lane Brown
trailer mix
Nov. 30, 2009
By Amos Barshad
video games
Oct. 15, 2009
First Look: Lego Blur A look at Blur from Lego: Rock Band.
By Amos Barshad
Is the Blur Reunion Really Over? Graham Coxon says so, but we’re not so sure.
By Amos Barshad
Damon Albarn to Art-Direct 2012 Olympics, Maybe! Blur leader Damon Albarn is under serious consideration for the job of artistic director for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.
By Lane Brown
Blur Reunion Show Predictably Terrific And some wonderful person has uploaded the whole thing to YouTube.
By Lane Brown
quote machine
May 29, 2009
By Emma Pearse
the industry
May 20, 2009
By Amos Barshad
Blur Reunion Filmed by Jerk Who records the only video of Blur’s Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon performing together live for the first time in nine years and makes the YouTube clip non-embeddable?
By Lane Brown
Blur Set Aside Differences to Play Lucrative Reunion Concert Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon have just announced that they’re re-forming Blur for a reunion show in London’s Hyde Park next July.
By Lane Brown
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