Damon Albarn

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Gorillaz

D-Sides | EMI
It’s a butcher’s trashcan of a double-length album.
By PATRICK CATES | January 07, 2008

Kaiser Chiefs

Yours Truly, Angry Mob | Universal
If familiarity really did breed contempt, well, Kaiser Chiefs wouldn’t stand much chance of winning any new friends.
By MATT ASHARE | April 03, 2007

Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto | Warner Bros./Rhino
You really can fit all of the hipster downtown NYC-by-way-of-Japan duo’s essential tracks on one disc without leaving anything out.
By MATT ASHARE | March 27, 2007

London falling

Damon Albarn’s The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Damon Albarn — Blur frontman, Gorillaz supremo, and now millennial minstrel to the drowning city of London — is that eerie modern specimen, the pop star who talks like a critic. The Good, The Bad, and the Queen, "Kingdom of Doom" (streaming video)
By JAMES PARKER | February 21, 2007

DARE

Don't waste your dollars
Although Gorillaz musical mastermind Damon Albarn is busy recording with the Good, the Bad and the Queen, all’s not quiet on the Gorillaz front, at least not on the commercial front.
By WILL SPITZ | November 13, 2006

Best Music Poll 2006

In our annual readers' poll, the sky's the limit
The results are in for the 18th annual FNX/Phoenix Best Music Poll. Gorillaz, Matisyahu, Dropkick Murphys, Dresden Dolls, and Apollo Sunshine top your charts.
By PHOENIX STAFF | May 18, 2006

Gorillaz in the midst

Damon Albarn joins Beck in the pan-cultural playground
Remember the great electronica gold rush of ’97, the year Madonna’s Maverick label won a massive bidding war over long-ignored rave mystic Liam Howlett, a/k/a Prodigy, and we all grooved to the electropunk clash of “Smack My Bitch Up”?
By MATT ASHARE | May 17, 2006

Gorillaz at the Apollo

Animated sans animation
There were puppets, singing and dancing middle schoolers, a gospel choir, a 14-piece string section from Juilliard, a who’s who of guests, including Neneh Cherry, De La Soul, Ike Turner, and a lollipop-sucking Shaun Ryder. But no Jamie Hewlett animations?!
By WILL SPITZ | April 10, 2006

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