in order to finish 'The Magic Whip,' its first album in a dozen years, Blur had to revisit the past. This wasn't the ­distant past of 1994's 'Parklife' or 1995's 'The Great Escape,' cheeky Britpop… By ...

Damon Albarn of Blur isn’t a fan of what’s on the radio these days. "Look at music now,” he told The Sunday Times earlier this month. “Does it say anything? Young artists talk about themselves, not ...

In the Nineties, Oasis won the major Brit-pop battles: worldwide album sales, U.K. Number One singles and gossip-column yardage. But their archrivals, Blur, soundly beat them in exploration and legacy ...

UPDATE: Blur appeared in The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon‘s music room and performed an acoustic version of their 1999 track “Tender” off the album 13. Watch here. Blur‘s long-awaited reunion album ...

Blur’s made-in-Hong-Kong album, their first for 12 years, overflows with lovely songs and touchingly reveals a band now happily reconciled There are two kinds of band re-formation. The first is so ...

The Magic Whip features the full Blur lineup of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and fans can celebrate with a June gig in London’s Hyde Park Fans of Britpop pioneers Blur had reason to celebrate on ...

Well, that was unexpected. Blur fans will be in heaven after today’s announcement of a new album complete with a massive live show in Hyde Park and the first new track and video. It will be the first ...

The Magic Whip, Blur's first new album in 12 years, and their first as a four-piece in 16 years, is released today. In her five star review of the album, The Telegraph's Helen Brown wrote that: "The ...

Back at it! 1990s favorites Blur surprised fans on Thursday, Feb. 19, when the band announced plans for a big comeback. The veteran Britpop rockers secretly spent time in the recording studio and will ...

Blur's comeback album "The Magic Whip" is less than a month away, and the reunited Britpoppers have shared a music video for the third song we've heard off the new record. It's called "Lonesome… By ...

BLUR BRINGS it all back home on their brilliant reunion album. “The Magic Whip” — the first record in 16 years to feature all four original members — reconstitutes the Brit-pop snap of the band’s ...