It’s odd to think now that when Damon Albarn launched Gorillaz at the beginning ... the key reasons behind the initial reason to form a cartoon band was to remove themselves (or more accurately ...

cartoon-character band conceived in 1998 by the English songwriter Damon Albarn and the comics artist Jamie Hewlett. Twenty years into Gorillaz’s career, Hewlett’s online visual chronicles ...

Damon Albarn has dedicated his career to trying every musical avenue within his grasp. He has perfected many genres, but what songs stand out?

I spoke with Gorillaz' human creators—Tank Girl visual artist Jamie Hewlett and Blur singer Damon Albarn (pictured ... first hit on the idea of making a cartoon band. What was the initial ...

That night, Damon Albarn’s 19-year-old cartoon supergroup transported me to parts unknown. Same for the audience at large, which appeared hypnotized as the Blur frontman took long strides across ...

More than 20 years ago, Damon Albarn, of the Brit-pop band Blur ... shifting cast of musicians emerged out front, relegating the cartoon bandmembers to a backdrop of Hewlitt’s videos.

Damon Albarn revealed in October 2014 that ... On Friday, artist Jamie Hewlett, Albarn’s other half in the cartoon troupe, confirmed on Instagram that the Plastic Beach crew is returning ...

Really. The English band, with a “mutated hip-hop, trip-hop, dub sound” (according to Blur frontman Damon Albarn) share the same cartoon world as the Archies and the Chipmunks. But unlike ...

Nearly twenty years after their creation by Britpop war vet Damon Albarn and indie comic book artist Jamie Hewlett, the cartoon angle of the pop art project has never quite factored into the group ...

Back in the hazy mid-Nineties, a lithe, wide-eyed Damon Albarn sauntered through candy ... anonymous conceit of four cartoon characters; fans saw the blue-haired 2-D in the virtual band's videos ...