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“Growing up, Kiss was always ‘Dad’s work’… I knew something was up when I moved to New York at 18, and I was seeing his face on billboards all the time”: These rockstar sons all grew up with guitar legends as fathers. Now they’re forging their own careers

What's it like to make music when your dad is a legend in the business? We ask Tommy Prine, Greg Guy, Evan Stanley, Michah Nelson, Duane Betts and Harrison Whitford

Guitar World

‘Hip-hop was like dog years. You’d be over by your third album’: De La Soul on grief, Gorillaz and never giving up

Two years after the death of Trugoy, the remaining duo are still feeling raw. They relive the daisy age they built together – and explain how their late bandmate inspires them

The Guardian - UK

The legendary 2005 albums: From Madonna and Kanye West to Bloc Party and Hard-Fi

What came out 20 years ago is more relevant than ever, according to the charts - so let’s get contemporarily nostalgic

Evening Standard

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“I got him a drink and it went from there”: how Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher buried the hatchet and became unlikely friends and collaborators

The Blur frontman and Oasis leader spent the 90s at loggerheads but a chance meeting paved the way to a blossoming friendship

Louder

Can you spot all the references in Jamie Hewlett's Comicon poster?

MAD Magazine meets Gorillaz in the artist's reference-packed poster design

Creative Bloq

“Damon Albarn was like a living ATM. You’d press a button and a hook would come out of him”: how the Blur frontman altered the course of his career by forming Gorillaz

Diving into the beginnings of Gorillaz, Damon Albarn’s virtual pop side-project that became even bigger than Blur

Louder

The Guide #128: Yard Act kick off our latest guide to the best music

A spotlight on the Leeds music scene, from visionary tracks about broken Britain to early Beefheart-meets-Disney

The Guardian - UK

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The 11 best Record Store Day 2024 releases – Gorillaz, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth and more

Record Store Day returns for 2024 – here are the special edition albums we think you should look out for during the event.

What Hi-Fi?

Record Store Day returns! RSD 2024's exclusive vinyl releases include Blur, Gorillaz, Pixies and more

Record Store Day returns to celebrate the UK's independent record stores, with 100s of exclusive and limited edition vinyl releases nationwide.

What Hi-Fi?

“I think about Van Halen a lot. I have to play some treacherous licks, so I need the right kind of inspiration. I’m overplaying to an extent – it’s gotta be huge and bombastic”: Brendon Small on writing Dethklok’s brutal final act

You can cancel Dethklok but you can't kill them. As the world's biggest fictional metal band return, Small reveals how he takes inspiration from Reb Beach and Eddie Van Halen, why stand-up comedy helped his guitar performance, and what he hopes to learn from Nili Brosh

Guitar World

Disneyland Map Signed By Walt Disney Going Up For Auction

The map is from 1964 and also includes the signatures of several British film stars.

Zenger

The shyest producer in music? How Fraser T Smith found his way into the spotlight

Stormzy loves him, Dave brought him on stage to collect a Brit Award, and he’s behind hits by Adele, Britney and Gorillaz. But now self-effacing super producer Fraser T Smith is putting himself centre stage, he tells Roisin O’Connor

The Independent UK

15 best Gorillaz tracks to test your system

We’ve curated the finest tracks from the most successful virtual band ever so that you can get the best out of your hi-fi.

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Your Friday night playlist curated by Sad Night Dynamite

Dystopian London-based duo, Sad Night Dynamite, talk to Isobel Van Dyke about their upcoming album, disapproval from Disney and taming their ‘wild animal’ sound

Evening Standard

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Blur at Wembley Stadium review: fizzed with the vibrant energy of a band in their prime

It was a set full of twists and turns: big populist hits cut with strange idiosyncratic oddities and true emotional heft

Daily Mirror

Gorillaz's Damon Albarn says he's put money on Noel and Liam Gallagher reforming Oasis

The Gorillaz musician, 55, joins the rest of the world in hoping that the feuding brothers will put their differences aside for their band, Oasis

Guitar World

George Benson on the time he met Jimi Hendrix, how Peter Frampton changed the course of his career and what Paul McCartney made of his Beatles tribute

One of the all-time jazz guitar greats on upsetting guitar companies, receiving praise from Frank Sinatra, and what it was really like working with Miles Davis

Metal Hammer

Watch Knocked Loose bring some much needed hardcore mayhem to Coachella 2023

Bad Bunny? Gorillaz? Blink-182? Please: THIS is the Coachella footage you need to watch

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The Independent UK

Coachella 2023: How to get tickets to see Blackpink, Bad Bunny and Frank Ocean

Californian festival will also host acts such as Blondie, Rosalia and Gorillaz

The Guardian - UK

One to watch: James Ellis Ford

The star producer of Kylie and Gorillaz, and one half of electro duo Simian Mobile Disco, has gone solo with a pleasingly idiosyncratic debut album

The Conversation

Vinyl record sales keep spinning and spinning – with no end in sight

Over the past decade, vinyl records have made a major comeback. People purchased US$1.2 billion of records in 2022, a 20% jump from the previous year.

The Independent UK

‘I never got a chance to say goodbye’: Damon Albarn remembers The Specials frontman Terry Hall

The Gorillaz frontman recalled seeing the late singer perform for the first time when he was 14

Evening Standard

Who is Banksy? Street artist confirms goat mural in Richmond is his work

Banksy rose to prominence in the early 2000s for his distinctive stencilled graffiti artworks that often carry political and social messages

Evening Standard

Gorillaz – Cracker Island album review: marvellous melodies and more star guests make this offering sing

This new album just highlights why Gorillaz are Damon Albarn’s most successful band

The Guardian - UK

David Jolicoeur obituary

Founding member of the US hip-hop trio De La Soul who performed under the stage name Trugoy the Dove

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