THE last time I saw Damon Albarn – until now that is – was at Wembley Stadium in July 2023.  He and his Blur bandmates, arms ...

Damon Albarn's music collective Africa Express announces a new album, "Egoli," to be released in June.

Launched in Mali in 2006, Africa Express is a global collaborative community of musicians. At first, the idea was to link Malian artists like Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyaté and Amadou & Mariam with ...

"Spectacular misfires", lost Britpop battles", and understanding Damon Albarn's politics: Does nuance always come second?

A political undercurrent bubbles through much of Albarn's conversation. The Africa Express event was scheduled for Friday March 29, the day Britain was long expected to leave the EU.

Africa Express, the project of Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn that brings Western and African musicians together, was accused of exploitation by two musicians, Petite Noir and Nabihah Iqbal.

Oasis and Blur have a storied history of name-calling and fallouts throughout the 1990s, a rivalry which peaked via a chart ...

A collaboration between Blur and Oasis was once unthinkable. The two bands were rivals during the heyday of Britpop. The feud ...

Over the weekend, Damon Albarn joined his Africa Express collective on-stage at the Bahidorá Festival, which took place in Morelos, which is just outside of Mexico City. Albarn helped out with a ...

Damon Albarn has expressed a desire to make music in Palestine and Israel to bring greater communication between cultures through art.

The pace switches up on “Kuduro”, where old Africa Express hands Fatoumata Diawara and Moonchild Sanelly trade verses in Bambara and Xhosa, both equally disappointed by men. Marimba punks Son Rompe ...

It seems that Blur and Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn has some money coming his way: Back in 2023, he said of Oasis, “I can ...