When Damon Albarn, the creative madman behind the genre-bending collective Gorillaz, emerged onto the Red Rocks stage Tuesday night, my first thought was that he looked like he’d either been plucked ...
There are few things more complex and engaging than a virtual band in the era of technology and the internet. British virtual band Gorillaz, created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, has been around ...
When we heard rumblings of a new Gorillaz album last year we thought we knew what to expect. Little did we know we weren’t just getting a new album—we got an entirely new Gorillaz. Humanz arrived last ...
Gorillaz took the city by storm when they played Chicago’s Huntington Bank Pavilion during the Humanz World Tour on Saturday, July 8. The skyline glistened as the backdrop of the stage as Gorillaz ...
Gorillaz’s Humanz album has finally dropped, after seven years without music from the animated band. The Damon Albarn project did it right. With collaborations from all across the musical spectrum, ...
A little over three months after dropping their comeback single “Hallelujah Money,” the Gorillaz are back with Humanz, their latest album. Vince appears on "Ascension," which comes right after the ...
When the new Gorillaz album was being made—pieced together through a process I imagine looking more like Willy Wonka's Inventing Room than any conventional recording session—Damon Albarn instructed ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grace Jones, Vince Staples, Pusha T, Popcaan, D.R.A.M., Mavis Staples, and Anthony Hamilton are all on the LP. The night one of ...
With Gorillaz, singer-songwriter Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett created an entire mythology around a cartoon rock quartet, committing so deeply to their concept that when the group played ...
There’s an element of social commentary literally inked into every Gorillaz record. The “virtual band” formed by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett in the late ‘90s uses ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even as one of music’s most forward-facing artists, Damon Albarn must have been surprised by the prescience of his statement that ...
It was, all things considered, the perfect night for an apocalyptic party. The summer storm clouds hung heavily over Philadelphia on Thursday, July 13. More than a few times, downpours fell on the ...