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HISTORICAL FACTS: Gorillaz - The Untold Story

Primavera Sound 2026 Preview: Barcelona's Sold-Out Festival Returns With The Cure, Doja Cat, The xx and Gorillaz

The 24th edition of the festival will take place June 3-7 in Barcelona, with the main festival running June 4-6 with an opening day and closing party.

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“It was like panning for gold. Amongst the brown murky waters, I saw this track all shiny and glimmery, shining like a big rock of gold. It said, 'Play me, play me!”: How Gorillaz deployed some sublime music theory to build their most beloved tune

The reason Gorillaz biggest track lingers in the mind longer than others is down to its tightly-constructed arrangement

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The 10 best music festivals in Europe for 2026

SUMMER 2026: Grab your passport: The Independent’s culture team has picked out the best music getaways for 2026, whether you’re after a forest rave or a sun-soaked break in southern Italy

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Gorillaz lift lid on failed film project

Gorillaz stars Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have revealed they walked away from the band's planned Netflix movie because the project was moving so slowly and they poured their "frustration" into 2023 album Cracker Island.

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How Gorillaz's new film turns anime nostalgia into something fresh

Old-school paint mixes with modern tech in The Mountain, the Moon Cave and the Sad God.

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“I was told to take it off. I didn't want to take what he'd said to me off... Because I thought it was really interesting": Damon Albarn reveals that Lou Reed’s voice on The Mountain is a ‘replica’

His estate wouldn’t give permission

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Gorillaz land their third number one album with The Mountain

The group has topped the UK albums chart with its ninth studio album, titled The Mountain.

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Damon Albarn's relationship with Gorillaz's Jamie Hewlett 'deteriorated'

Damon Albarn's friendship with his longtime Gorillaz collaborator Jamie Hewlett "deteriorated" following the release of the band's 2010 album Plastic Beach and he felt as if they were on a "strange hiatus" over the last 16 years.

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Damon Albarn used 'replica of Lou Reed's voice' on Gorillaz track

Damon Albarn used a "replica of Lou Reed's voice" on Gorillaz track The Plastic Guru - which features on new album The Mountain - because he wasn't allowed to feature the original recording of the late star.

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Gorillaz just announced a US tour. When and where to get tickets

The Gorillaz have announced a new tour that will feature 22 dates across the U.S. and Canada, along with a headline appearance at the Shaky Knees festival.

The Independent UK

A winding conversation on loss: In praise of 'The Mountain' by Gorillaz

The ninth studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz is out and deals with death and grief by merging Indian classical instrumentation with the group's eclectic pop influences. It's an ambitious meditation that stands as an early highlight of 2026.

Euronews

These Gorillaz x Spotify ads are hiding something really cool

The band breaks the mould to promote their new album, The Mountain.

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From The Testament of Ann Lee to Gorillaz: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Amanda Seyfried is Shaker all over in a wild period drama, while Damon Albarn and his cartoon cohort return with a polyglot offering

The Guardian - UK

Gorillaz review, The Mountain: This virtuosic musical mandala is full of joyful wisdom

5/5 The album’s posthumous contributors remind us that music can keep ghosts alive and – by spinning outtake samples of vanished voices into new forms – even serve as a kind of reincarnation

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Gorillaz: The Mountain review – a late career peak haunted by ghosts yet glowing with life

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band mark 25 years with an album inspired by India and shaped by loss, featuring collaborators living and dead

Evening Standard

The best European festivals to book now: from Way Out West to Primavera

With festival season approaching, we round up the best offerings from across the continent

Euronews

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A groundbreaking Tracey Emin exhibit, Van Gogh through the lens of yellow, and the return of cinema's favourite masked maniac. Here's what to look out for this week.

MusicRadar

“Between that and the ABBA hologram show there’s really nothing left of our ideas": Damon Albarn suggests that Gorillaz helped to lay the groundwork for the success of KPop Demon Hunters, and reflects on the "mismatch" that led to Blur's Coachella debacle

But they may yet return to the US, he says

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Graham Norton in awkward exchange with Damon Albarn over chat show ‘snub’

‘I have no recollection of that,’ presenter said of past exchange with Gorillaz frontman

The Guardian - AU

Mindy Meng Wang on the ‘disorienting’ experience of her father’s funeral – and the Chinese cyber-opera it inspired

The guzheng virtuoso remembers being shocked by the traditional ceremony in north-western China. Now she’s processing it on stage

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Halsey, Iron Maiden, Gorillaz, Limp Bizkit and Bring Me The Horizon to play Rock For People 2026 – day splits announced

The five-day festival will take place at Park 360 in northern Czech Republic from June 10 to 14

Euronews

Mountains, love and lube: The 10 most anticipated albums of 2026

Euronews Culture looks ahead to 2026 and picks 10 albums we can't wait to hear in the first months of next year.

The Guardian - UK

Ticket fees: UK gig-goers fight back against new wave of charges

Fans are questioning additional ‘restoration’ costs for new stadiums and lament lack of transparency

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Damon Albarn 'nearly made a record' with David Bowie

Blur frontman Damon Albarn has revealed he "nearly made a record" with late music legend David Bowie and The Kinks star Ray Davies but the project fell through.

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“I nearly made a record with Ray Davies and David Bowie back in the late '90s”: Damon Albarn on the dream collab that got away

Plus he reveals Dionne Warwick found the Gorillaz’ ideas “problematic”

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