Damon Albarn

Thanks to Dan, Darren, Kyle and Matthew for putting this together. Read More

JAY HANNA and DAVID CRADDOCK take a sonic trip down memory lane to come up with the decade's most defining tunes. 1. Read More

Damon Albarn, 41, of disintegrating Blur at the beginning of the 21st century, a little hungover from the 1990s, and of reformed closure-chasing Blur earlier this year, and in between/beyond of various conceptual things that feature him as busy, dreaming solo artist and strategic avant-pop star at the centre of various mixed/abstracted/progressive collaborations, is not best impressed at having to a) sum himself up, or b) sum up the past decade, especially on the morning he's due at the dentist for some emergency repairs on a broken tooth. Read More

Musical pioneers Ensemble Offspring will make use of the haunting sounds of the glass harmonica when they perform in the Great Hall at the Sydney Festival in the multi-media show Fractured Again , which combines music, video, lighting design and installation art. Read More

Let's be honest: it's tough for all of you musicians out there to get any attention these days. Read More

Britpop wonders Blur are set to be honoured with their own 'blue plaque' on the site of their first ever show. Read More

The Faces reunion is out, The Velvets, Big Star and The Beatles reunions are kind of on, Tom Waits is all over the place, Neil Young is compiling for the Bridge School, Massive Attack make a new album, Lady Gaga is old news to the Grammys, and a look at the good and the bad associated with live albums. Read More

HE urged us to Feed The World - but 25 years after Band Aid, Eighties star Marilyn seems only to have fed his FACE. Read More

One comment sums up the key music event of 2009 more effectively than anything else said or written about the subject, and, fittingly, it comes from the mouth of Damon Albarn. Read More

In previous episodes of this historical tale we've talked about Junk Culture the 'early days,' in fact the days were so early they were before Junk Culture formed. Read More