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Massive Attack's new video for the Damon Albarn collaboration "Saturday Come Slow" takes a couple of minutes to reveal itself, but it turns out to be a short film about the use of loud music as a torture instrument in prisons. ...

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are back with more of their animated band, Gorillaz. The group has released the video for their newest single, “Stylo” — featuring a guest appearance from actor Bruce Willis. “Stylo” is the first track from the Gorillaz’s forthcoming album Plastic Beach, out March 8.

Last night, anyone who went to see trip-hop originators Massive Attack play London's HMV Hammersmith Apollo got something extra. Blur/Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn (dressed like one of the characters on "The Sopranos" who appears in one scene and then ...

Last week, Glastonbury Festival co-organizer Emily Eavis started a Haiti benefit auction on eBay, with all proceeds going to Oxfam. Among the items donated by rock stars was Damon Albarn's offer to sell ...

Massive Attack's fifth full-length, Heligoland, is out February 9 via Virgin in the U.S. (February 8 in the UK). A characteristically rainy song from the album called "Saturday Come Slow", featuring the famous British singer Damon Albarn, is streaming ...

Glastonbury Festival co-organizer Emily Eavis has helped put together a Haiti benefit auction, with proceeds going to Oxfam. Items being sold to the highest bidder include a Fender Stratocaster from Arctic Monkeys ...

UPDATE: The official stream of "Stylo" can be found HERE. A day after the announcement that Gorillaz would headline one day of Coachella, the first track from the new album by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's cartoon band has appeared online. (Thanks ...

MASSIVE ATTACK SET TO RELEASE FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM HELIGOLAND, ON VIRGIN RECORDS FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Massive Attack Legendary trip-hop duo Massive Attack are set to release their highly anticipated fifth studio album, Heligoland, on EMI's Virgin Records on February 9, 2010. Last month, the ...

Damon Albarn was recently named "Multi-Tasker of the Decade" by The Guardian (sorry Jack White), and the British star is apparently trying to top his own busy track record over the next ten years. First, he's got the new Gorillaz ...

Almost seven years after their full studio album, 2003's 100th Window, trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack are ready to release more dubby darkness into the world. Their fifth full-length, Heligoland, is out February 9 via Virgin in the U.S. (February 8 in the UK). ...

After 2007's Monkey: Journey To The West, an opera by Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, it looks like the Gorillaz guys are up to even more fantastical theatrics. According to a Mustard interview with graphic novelist Alan Moore (Watchmen, ...

Can playing rhythmic backbone in a band that includes the dueling egos of Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon prepare someone to hold public office? So far, the British voting public has not found this to be the case. In 2007 and 2008, ...

NIGERIAN AFROBEAT LEGEND TONY ALLEN'S WORLD CIRCUIT/NONESUCH DEBUT SECRET AGENT TO BE RELEASED JANUARY 12 "At nearly 70 the man Brian Eno reckons is perhaps the greatest drummer that ever lived is reveling in his heritage, and it's contagious." —Q Tony Allen Tony Allen — best known ...

Home page photo by Kevin Westenberg It seems safe to say that if it weren't for Massive Attack, there may be no Burial. The throughline between the two artists' dense, rhythmic, apocalyptic soundscapes is easy to make out. So when Massive Attack's Daddy G ...

We've seen some pretty spectacular Olympic opening ceremonies recently: Bjork in Athens in 2004, all those drummers in Beijing in 2008. And when the Games come to London in 2012, a mob of cartoon apes could conceivably join their ranks. The Independent reports that Blur frontman and Gorillaz co-mastermind ...

Massive Attack Set To Release New EP October 6 Followed By New Album In February Massive Attack Legendary trip-hop duo Massive Attack has announced the release of their first new material in three years - an EP of four new ...

Capitol/EMI TO Release Career-Spanning Blur Collection Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur, On July 28 25-Track 2-CD & Digital Collection Spans Band's Seven Studio Albums Blur On July 28, a new 2-CD and digital collection of 25 tracks spanning Blur's seven studio albums ...