By Marvin Marks on Feb 6, 2011 in Music News | 0 Comments
The Gorillaz are breaking up due to differences between Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. Meanwhile; Albarn is working with his first band Blur although you shouldn’t expect a new album this year.
By Marvin Marks on Dec 21, 2010 in Features | 2 Comments
I love reddit. It’s a great place to very quickly find the latest news and coolest links on the internet. There’s usually a lot of interesting intelligent (and/or humorous) discussion taking place in the comments too. There are a number of “subreddits” that focus on specific topics including /r/Music. This year there was a vote [...]
By Marvin Marks on Mar 1, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
The new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, can be streamed in it’s entirety at NPR.org right now. Plastic Beach Tracklist 1. Orchestral Intro 2. Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach 3. White Flag 4. Rhinestone Eyes 5. Stylo 6. Superfast Jellyfish 7. Empire Ants 8. Glitter Freeze 9. Some Kind of Nature 10. On [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 22, 2010 in Music News | 1 Comment
Gorillaz fans should check out Gorillaz.com as there’s a lot of new stuff (including a stream of the new single “Stylo” featuring Bobby Womack & Mos Def) to check out over there with the group’s new album, Plastic Beach, coming out on March 9th in the US (the 8th in the UK.)
By Marvin Marks on Jan 20, 2010 in Music News | 0 Comments
The line up for the three day Coachella music festival in Indio, California has been announced and it includes the following artists (and many more, go here for complete listings.) Jay-Z, Gorillaz, and Muse are the headliners for each of the respective days of the three day festival but there are quite a few artists [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 31, 2009 in Features | 0 Comments
Instead of looking back at 2009 on New Years Eve, I’m going to look forward to 2010. These are the album releases (whether the release date is set in stone or only rumored) that I’m looking forward to. Radiohead No album name or release date as of yet but it does seem likely that a [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 22, 2009 in Music News | 0 Comments
Mos Def is going to appear on the Gorillaz 2010 album which has the planned title of Plastic Beach (I don’t think this title is official yet, so it may be changed.) According to this interview with Mos Def, he will be appearing on 7 of the tracks on the upcoming album as “Sun Moon [...]
By Marvin Marks on Mar 23, 2009 in Music Trivia | 1 Comment
Damon Albarn was born on March 23rd of 1968 in London, England. He is a singer-songwriter who is well known as the lead singer for Blur & Gorillaz. Blur was formed in 1989 and they went on to be one of the most successful bands of the ’90s in the UK although they had limited [...]