THE last time I saw Damon Albarn – until now that is – was at Wembley Stadium in July 2023.  He and his Blur bandmates, arms ...

A political undercurrent bubbles through much of Albarn's conversation. The Africa Express event was scheduled for Friday March 29, the day Britain was long expected to leave the EU.

Damon Albarn has expressed a desire to make music in Palestine and Israel to bring greater communication between cultures through art.

Damon Albarn's music collective Africa Express announces a new album, "Egoli," to be released in June.

Africa Express, the project of Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn that brings Western and African musicians together, was accused of exploitation by two musicians, Petite Noir and Nabihah Iqbal.

Oasis and Blur have a storied history of name-calling and fallouts throughout the 1990s, a rivalry which peaked via a chart ...

Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn knows when he’s beat. And now – after 30 years of, at best, pyrrhic victory – he’s ...

”21st century colonization is alive,” Petite Noir says, describing what he calls a predatory contract from Damon Albarn's Africa Express project.

The pace switches up on “Kuduro”, where old Africa Express hands Fatoumata Diawara and Moonchild Sanelly trade verses in Bambara and Xhosa, both equally disappointed by men. Marimba punks Son Rompe ...

Africa Express is Damon Albarn’s project that brings together Western musical luminaries (Brian Eno, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, Albarn himself) with Malian musicians. Last year, they ...

Over the weekend, Damon Albarn joined his Africa Express collective on-stage at the Bahidorá Festival, which took place in Morelos, which is just outside of Mexico City. Albarn helped out with a ...

Tonight is significant for another reason. It’s a homecoming for Damon Albarn, the big top tent housing Africa Express: The Circus is erected just a few streets away from where he grew up.