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Poté has announced his second album ‘A Tenuous Tale Of Her’, and shared lead single ‘Young Lies’ which features guest vocals from Damon Albarn.You can hear the multifaceted track below, which repeatedly shifts in tone over a number of different beats. “I love it when tunes evolve like this one”, said Albarn of the collaboration.The collaboration came about through Gorillaz producer Remi Kabaka Jr.

Tony Allen has been announced – get all the details below.Tributes poured in from across the world when Allen, who drummed for Fela Kuti, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and many more across a distinguished career, died aged 79 last year.‘There Is No End’ will be released on April 30 on Decca France, and a first single – co-written by Damon Albarn and featuring Skepta and Nigerian poet Ben Okri – has been released today (March 12).“Recording ‘Cosmosis’ was the last time I hung out with Tony,” Albarn said in a statement.

Paul McCartney has announced that he is to release a reimagined version of last year’s ‘McCartney III’, featuring re-workings of the album from the likes of St Vincent, Beck, Damon Albarn, Phoebe Bridgers, Josh Homme and many more.The album is set to arrive on April 16, but today (March 11) sees Dominic Fike launching the record with a hypnotic cover of ‘The Kiss of Venus’.Elsewhere on the record, Damon Albarn will provide a new remix of ‘Long Tailed Winter Bird’, St Vincent will put a new spin on ‘Women and Wives’ and Phoebe Bridgers will give her own take on ‘Seize The Day’.Check out the tracklisting in full below.1. Find My Way (feat. Beck)2. The Kiss of Venus (Dominic Fike)3. Pretty Boys (feat. Khruangbin)4. Women And Wives (St. Vincent

You could be forgiven for not recognising Damon Albarn as he passed you in the street with his new shaggy mullet.

Lewis Capaldi has assured his mum there’s no chance of him being ravaged by drugs like old-school rockers… he can’t even stomach a fizzy drink.The Someone You Loved singer blames his acid reflux for putting a stop to any ideas of a hedonistic lifestyle.Lewis may be restricted to still water, but at least his wit is sparkling as always.‘My mum and dad have watched way too many documentaries about musicians,’ said the Brit winner.‘Mum watched the Mötley Crüe film and was like, “Oh my God, don’t you go and do that!”‘She’s afraid I’m going to fall into drugs and alcohol — but the thing is, I have got acid reflux.’Despite getting hammered at this year’s Brits, he asked: ‘Did none of these bloody men, Mötley Crüe and Mick Jagger, did none of

Damon Albarn has said the UK government’s response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic shows they have “no empathy with the arts.”Speaking to PA News ahead of a series of virtual Gorillaz gigs, Albarn said: “This present government has no empathy with the arts whatsoever and sadly that is a really important part of British culture. It is an essential part of British culture.“We live in a pretty fucking miserable country at times and we need our arts to uplift us.

Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn once shared a peaceful drink with him “at the height of Britpop” – a story that the former Oasis frontman disputes.Both Lucas and Gallagher appeared as guests on The Jonathan Ross Show this weekend (November 28), when the host brought up Lucas’ friendship with Oasis rivals Blur, including the time he supported the band following the release of ‘The Great Escape’.Lucas went on to praise the 1995 album – which is set to receive a special, limited edition vinyl release to celebrate its 25th anniversary – to which Liam responded: “Didn’t sell much though, did it?”When Ross pointed out that the pair had met at the time, Lucas told the singer that he was at London’s The Groucho Club with Albarn when they spotted

Damon Albarn has spoken of his love for Joy Division during a guest appearance on the new Joy Division and New Order podcast Transmissions: The Definitive Story.Launched late last month, the official podcast is an eight-part series which includes interviews with members of the two bands and a number of special guests, such as Bono, Johnny Marr, Liam Gallagher and Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood.Albarn is another one of the guests who features on the Transmissions podcast, during which he spoke about his enduring admiration for Joy Division.“It’s the sum of the parts as well as the atmosphere that they create, you know? It shouldn’t work but it does,” he said of the band.“There’s nothing like it, no one else sounds like Joy Division.

Damon Albarn has said he’s up for the prospect of playing more shows with Blur in the future.The Britpop icons last hit the road in support of 2015’s ‘The Magic Whip’ – with their final show coming at Abu Dhabi’s Grand Prix in November 2015.It was followed by a brief reunion last year at Damon Albarn’s Africa Express show in East London, which saw them performing ‘Clover Over Dover’ for the first time, alongside ‘Song 2’ and ‘Tender’.While further gigs are yet to materialise, Albarn told MusicWeek that he’s up for the prospect of reuniting with his bandmates once more.When asked if Blur have played their final show, he replied: “I really hope not. I love doing those gigs, they’re great, but it’s not something I need to do.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has revealed that he has spent much of 2020 “finishing off” a new album from the band as well as a solo record.Having revealed to NME earlier this year that the band had been hard at work on “two new albums and an hour of noise“, now Smith has said that a year trapped inside due to COVID restrictions has made him very productive. The frontman was speaking on BBC 6 Music today (Wednesday September 9) to introduce his new collaboration with Gorillaz, which he said Damon Albarn first sent to him when he was “in the middle of finishing off the big song at the end of The Cure album” which he described as “10 minutes of intense doom and gloom”.Speaking of his life throughout the coronavirus lockdown, Smith said: “I feel

Moses Boyd, FKA Twigs, Arlo Parks and Flying Lotus were among the big winners at the AIM Independent Music Awards.

Liam Gallagher went running home to the UK during an Oasis tour of the USA over fears of being forced to fight a member of their support band, according to a rival rocker.

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Gorillaz are paying tribute to late Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen with the release of the band's new song "How Far?""The track was written and recorded with Skepta in London just before lockdown and is being shared immediately as a tribute to the spirit of a great man, Tony Allen," Gorillaz said in a statement Saturday (May 2).Allen, a longtime friend and music collaborator of Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, is also featured on the track. Allen and Albarn were bandmates in Good, the Bad and the Queen.

Liam Gallagher has threated to 'slap' ex-Oasis manager Alan McGee over allegations he made in new book Don't Look Back in Anger.

The frontman has responded after his brother's quotes resurfaced over the weekend

Liam Gallagher has blamed his brother Noel for starting a public feud with Blue frontman Damon Albarn by telling him to "catch AIDS and die".

The famous Oasis and Blur feud from the Nineties was sparked by a love triangle involving Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn.

The iconic Oasis-vs-Blur Britpop battle kicked off because of a vicious love triangle involving Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn, rocker Noel claims.

With contributions from the likes of Damon Albarn, Johnny Marr and Anna Calvi