Britpop titans Blur will release The Ballad of Darren, their first album in eight years, on July 21. The Damon Albarn-fronted quartet is previewing the new 10-track LP with the lead single "The ...

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Decades ago, Blur became one of the most visible faces of “Britpop,” a catch-all label ascribed to mid-‘90s British guitar bands who drew from the island’s rock history and inspired global followings.

Bucket hats are making a comeback... Oasis has announced a reunion tour... Blur released a live album... The 90s are back, and hitting the West End next year. Haven ...

The two previous albums Blur released in the new century were marked by their openness to expanding their music in whatever directions it, or the four members, saw fit. No longer expected to live up ...

Thanks to a swaggering role in Britpop’s naughty ’90s carry-on, the four men of Blur are haunted by depictions of themselves at their most annoying and cartoon-like. But peer back – into the punky ...

For a band still largely associated with a very specific moment in U.K. rock history, Blur have never really stayed in one musical mode for very long. Beginning as a baggy bunch of shoegazers, the ...

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