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  Gorillaz's 'Monkey' Musical Swinging Over to Lincoln Center

  March 27, 2013 – For the moment, new music from Gorillaz doesn't seem likely — Damon Albarn and Gorillaz animator/co-creator Jamie Hewlett are on the outs right now — but one of the pair's projects is about to see a stateside resurgence.Monkey: Journey to the West, a theater production that features music by Albarn and animation and design from Hewlett, is slated to open this year's Lincoln Center Festival, according to the …
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  Anti-YouTube Movement of the Year: Long Songs

  December 17, 2012 – The received wisdom is that popular music is the province of short attention spans, which are only getting shorter: Listeners only care about callout hooks; albums are obsolete now that they're purchased one song at a time and played on shuffle; and we’re all channel-surfing from YouTube video to YouTube video. …
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  Ink Friday: A Brief History of Cartoon Rappers

  November 15, 2012 –  …
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  Damon Albarn: Reports of Blur and Gorillaz's Deaths Are Greatly Exaggerated

  April 25, 2012 – Earlier this month, Damon Albarn left Blur and Gorillaz fans despondent by implying both of his beloved projects were dead in an interview with the reputable British newspaper The Guardian. But now he's taking a few steps back from the ledge in a new conversation with the U.K.'s Metro. "No," he replied bluntly to the question of whether the two projects were finished in the wake of his newer, shinier project, opera Dr. Dee. …
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  Damon Albarn Kills Hopes for Blur and Gorillaz in One Fell Swoop

  April 9, 2012 – Damon Albarn's most famous projects may not make it to see 2013. The British musician all but destroyed Blur and Gorillaz fans' hopes of new material, seemingly to divert attention to his new-ish solo project Dr. …
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  Damon Albarn Sheds Light on Folky 'Dr Dee' Solo Album

  March 7, 2012 – Damon Albarn continues to make the rest of us look lazy. Let's recap: In the past few months, the Gorillaz maestro has joined forces with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and OutKast's André 3000, reunited his old band Blur for the Brit Awards and an upcoming Olympic performance (along the way debuting a new song), and readied a March 27 collaborative album with Flea under the name Rocketjuice and the Moon. …
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  WatchYaVideo: See Gorillaz, James Murphy and Andre 3000's 'DoYaThing' Clip

  February 29, 2012 – Last week epic trio Gorillaz/James Murphy/André 3000 released "DoYaThing" via Converse's "Three Artists, One Song" program as an extended 13-minute track filled with dozens of "splooshie-sploosh" and "bloop-de-bloops" (and, yes, 68 instances of the word "shit," mostly from pottymouthed Three Stacks). …
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  'DoYaThing' By the Numbers: Dissecting Gorillaz/LCD/Andre 3000's 13-Minute Song

  February 24, 2012 – Earlier this week, Converse unveiled a radio edit of "DoYaThing," a predictably killer collaboration between Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, and sublime OutKast rapper André 3000. Now, via Seattle's 107.7 the End, we can all enjoy the madness. …
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  Listen to Gorillaz, James Murphy, and Andre 3000's 'DoYaThing' a Day Early

  February 22, 2012 – Let it never again be said that ripping songs from the radio died with the dawn of the MP3: this afternoon, DJ Zane Lowe of BBC's Radio 1 dropped a rip of the long-awaited Converse track from Gorillaz, James Murphy, and Andre 3000, "DoYaThing," on Soundcloud (via Pitchfork). …
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  Gorillaz, James Murphy, and Andre 3000: What the Hell Is Going On in This Clip?

  February 15, 2012 – As we've reported previously, Gorillaz have been scheming with Andre 3000 and James Murphy to drop a track via Converse on February 23. As we expected, now they're teasing us. …
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