Blur played Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday (5/1), a free surprise show sponsored by Converse Rubber Tracks which marked a number of firsts: it was Blur’s first live show since the release of ...
Blur have released another track from their new album, The Magic Whip, and “Lonesome Street” seems like the kind of bouncy song a lot of fans were hoping the band hadn’t given up on. There’s whistling ...
When Blur announced its first new album in twelve years, The Magic Whip, fans of the group rejoiced—finally, the artistic muse had struck the musicians once more. Then we learned it was nothing of the ...
The members of Brit pop band Blur. (Parlophone) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Blur's 2003 album, "Think Tank," was the sound of a band falling apart. The early recording process was so tumultuous that guitarist ...
Like many legendary guitarists, Blur’s Graham Coxon is mainly filed under “quiet, brooding genius” (see also: George Harrison, John Squire, Bernard Butler). Of course, there are those who see him as ...
The countdown until the release of Blur’s much anticipated comeback album is on and the early reviews are showing this one will be well worth the wait for fans. The Magic Whip is the band’s first ...
As the reunion conveyor belt whirrs on, bringing back everyone from Pulp to 5ive in a series of financially lucrative gigs that make wildly varying degrees of sense in 2015, the reconciliation game ...
And so, 27 years into the band's existence, and 12 after their last (and least creatively successful) album, Think Tank, Blur are back with a record that... sounds like Blur. It sounds, in fact, like ...
Blur have just released their first album in 12 years, but could another LP be on the way soon? Bassist Alex James has revealed that the band recorded "26 or 27" songs during their Hong Kong recording ...
Blur's comeback album "The Magic Whip" (Warner Bros./Parlophone) is about as unexpected as they come. The tracks were recorded in 2013, during jam sessions on a tour break in Hong Kong and then set ...
With its first album of new material since 2003, Blur arrives to act as if nothing has changed since the late ’90s heyday of the neo-Brit-pop it helped to pioneer. Don’t call “The Magic Whip” a ...