In a stunning announcement today, Blur have revealed plans to release their first new album in over a dozen years on April 28th, titled The Magic Whip. While the group had reunited for one-off gigs ...

in order to finish 'The Magic Whip,' its first album in a dozen years, Blur had to revisit the past. This wasn't the ­distant past of 1994's 'Parklife' or 1995's 'The Great Escape,' cheeky Britpop… By ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After over a decade, “The Magic Whip” is rightfully completely different than what we know to be a Blur album. Blur used to be one of us. Like their chief ...

Blur were Britpop flag-bearers of the 1990s, waging a media-driven battle with Oasis for the musical soul of Cool Britannia. Since that distant era, the band’s members have traded the laddish attitude ...

Blur’s made-in-Hong-Kong album, their first for 12 years, overflows with lovely songs and touchingly reveals a band now happily reconciled There are two kinds of band re-formation. The first is so ...

With the release of The Magic Whip, Blur's first album in over a decade, just around the corner, the guys have put the entire disc up for you to hear early via iTunes First Play. After reconvening for ...

UPDATE: Blur appeared in The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon‘s music room and performed an acoustic version of their 1999 track “Tender” off the album 13. Watch here. Blur‘s long-awaited reunion album ...

In the Nineties, Oasis won the major Brit-pop battles: worldwide album sales, U.K. Number One singles and gossip-column yardage. But their archrivals, Blur, soundly beat them in exploration and legacy ...

Surprise! After 12 years of studio album silence, Blur revealed they're releasing a new album this spring! By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director Surprise! After 12 years of studio album silence and ...

The Magic Whip features the full Blur lineup of Albarn, Coxon, Rowntree and James, and fans can celebrate with a June gig in London’s Hyde Park Fans of Britpop pioneers Blur had reason to celebrate on ...