Damon Albarn calls The Ballad of Darren, "the first legit Blur album" since 1999's 13. That's 24 years. There are two albums credited to Blur in-between: 2003's Think Tank, which guitarist Graham ...

Here’s a brilliant idea for a rock documentary: Catch up with a band in the creaky fog of middle age, long after the hits. A certain toll has been exacted, a certain humility achieved, and yet the ...

Blur has had long stretches when it seemed more or less broken up, and the four members—frontman/guitarist Damon Albarn, lead guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree—have ...

The Brüt commercials are right: Men are back! Except they’re the kind of men who used to wear sideways haircuts on MTV, who spent the ’80s flaunting tubular British accents and prancing through the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blur’s new record is nostalgic, almost painfully self-aware, and chocca with choons (Kevin Westenberg) Is there any band more ...

The two previous albums Blur released in the new century were marked by their openness to expanding their music in whatever directions it, or the four members, saw fit. No longer expected to live up ...