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

Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn and Alex James perform on stage in Africa Express: The Circus Credit: Robin Little It was here that Albarn's love of music was nurtured.

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

Africa Express, a musical collective led by Damon Albarn, will release a new album, EGOLI, on July 12 via Africa Express Records.The album will feature appearances by Gruff Rhys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs ...

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 ...

Damon Albarn with Rokia Traoree, Africa Express 1992. Africa Express, the project of Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn that brings Western and African musicians together, was accused of ...

UPDATE 3: Africa Express responds. Founded in 2006 by Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, the Africa Express project brings together Western and African musicians to collaborate. Fatboy Slim ...

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 ...

Damon Albarn's Africa Express just released new four-track EP, Molo, which is a stepping stone towards their album due to land this summer. MOLO, which means "Hello" in South Africa's Xhosa language, ...

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. He spent his early life in Leytonstone, east ...

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.