Gorillaz share a new animated video depicting the band playing a "live" performance for the first time in eight years
Gorillaz is a project that was birthed from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s long nights of subjecting themselves to MTV music videos. The idea was that the band would be a comment on the lack of substance in the videos that they repetitively sacrificed their eyes and minds to. That was in 1998, an…
New music and album announcements from The Flaming Lips, Eels, Gorillaz, and Stars
St. Vincent and Florence + The Machine unveil videos, while Gorillaz, The Mary Onettes, and Still Corners share new music.
The Aberdeen museum housing precious Cobain artifacts caught fire plus new music from Gorillaz, Dirty Projectors, Protomartyr, and MGMT.
New music from Gorillaz and Jim James, plus Jack White performs at a DC high school and Perfume Genius gets remixed by Mura Masa.
Tyler the creator shares his spin on a Jacquees track, Gorillaz perform new album in full, Forth Wanderers share a video, and a Radiohead rarity emerges.
Sufjan Stevens' 2006 album The Avalanche is getting released on vinyl for the first time, DJ Koze and Superorganism remix Gorillaz, new music from Metric, plus Cults and Lord Huron share covers.
Hip hop greats De La Soul have a pretty cool roster of guest musicians on their forthcoming full-length, and the Anonymous Nobody…. The list includes David Byrne, Snoop Dogg, Pete Rock, 2 Chainz, Usher, Jill Scott, Roc Marciano, Little Dragon, and, of course, Damon Albarn. To return the favor, it'…
New music from Interpol, Gorillaz, and Mourn, plus Neko Case stops by Conan to play "Bad Luck."
Each week KEXP's Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Gorillaz, Jim James, Bodega, and more.
Frankie Rose has a new album being released this Friday, August 11 called Cage Tropical. Gorillaz shared the video for “Strobelite,” off of their latest album Humanz. British grime artist Skepta‘s track “Hypocrisy” was released on SoundCloud last month and now we have a video to accompany it. Vampi…
It's been twelve long years, but there's finally a new album from UK pop giants Blur out today! KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes their eighth album as "a strong return-to-form incorporating everything from classic-sounding, crunchy Brit-pop to excursions into spacy electro-pop, brooding, dub…
It's a strong week for new albums, including the long-awaited solo debut from Blur frontman (and Gorillaz leader) Damon Albarn. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the release as "a mostly dark, brooding set of eclectic, beat-driven pop with a stripped-down, dub-influenced sound combining haunt…
Soul legend Bobby Womack has passed away today at the age of 70. Cause of death is not currently being reported. Womack began performing music in the mid-'50s, and was discovered by Sam Cooke who signed his band, The Valentinos, to SAR Records. The Valentinos' 1964 single "It's All Over Now" was co…
Damon Albarn, of Blur and the Gorillaz, is bringing Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland into the tech world in his new musical Wonder.land. The story follows a girl named Aly looking for solace in an online game called Alice after being bullied at school. Albarn wrote the music, with lyric…
April ended strong with new releases from some of our favorite artists. It's been five years since the last album from Feist, and the Canadian songstress returns with what KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls "a powerful set of dark, intimate folk-rock. Recorded mostly live, the album features a sta…
A rubber band is the perfect picture to fit Swedish electronic outfit Little Dragon. Up to this point, the band has been carving a unique sound that occupies a haunting modern space somewhere between historical influences like Massive Attack and Bjork. After singer Yukumi Nagano made an appearance …
A while back, a producer, a DJ and an MC, each with solid careers of their own, formed a sort of hip hop supergroup to face against rising corporate interests in their fields. Like Gorillaz, Deltron 3030 was high-concept, semi-fictional, character driven project that blew the minds of music fans of…
Though it's the first album released solely under his own name, there is a strong argument to be made that Everyday Robots is not the official solo debut of English legend Damon Albarn. That could be the soundtrack to the 1999 film Ravenous, which was the first music outside of his then-main band B…
