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St Vincent, Cruel, Jools Holland

Video: St. Vincent, Damon Albarn, And Charles Bradley On Jools Holland

This week on Jools Holland we’re treated to amazing performances by St. Vincent, Damon Albarn, and Charles Bradley.

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[Listen] – Damon Albarn – “Dr Dee” (Full Album Stream)

Damon Albarn’s latest album isn’t so much a solo album, but an operatic by-product, the entirety of which you can listen to now.

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[Listen] – Damon Albarn – “The Marvelous Dream”

Damon Albarn has released the first track from his upcoming solo album “Dr Dee”.

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[Listen] – Gorillaz – “DoYaThing” ft. Andre 3000 and James Murphy

Check out the highly-anticipated collaboration between Gorillaz, Andre 3000, and James Murphy.

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Blur – “Under The Westway” (New Song Live)

Tonight at a live charity show, Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon of Blur debuted a brand new Blur song, written within the last couple of weeks.

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[Watch] – New Video By DRC Music – “Hallo”

[Watch] – New Video By DRC Music – “Hallo”

If you haven’t heard of DRC Music yet, it’s basically Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) getting together with a bunch of famous producers and artists, flying out to the Democratic Republic Of Congo, and hooking up with local artists and musicians to record an album, and this is the first video of their meeting for the [...]

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[Album Review/Listen] – Tom Vek – “Leisure Seizure”

Did you wait five years for this album? You might be disappointed. The story, for those who don’t know it, goes like this: in 2006, around a year after releasing his well received debut album “We Have Sound”, Tom Vek disappeared from the music scene. No new singles, EPs, collaborations or even remixes. Not a [...]

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[Listen/Download] – Blur – “13″

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[Listen/Download] – Blur – “The Great Escape”

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[Listen/Download] – Blur – “Modern Life Is Rubbish”

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[Watch] – Damon Albarn Performs New Song “Apple Carts”

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L.Stadt

[Introducing] – L.Stadt

The wonderful thing about music is its ability to cross national boundaries and yet still appeal to the listener. Since writing for Listen Before You Buy I’ve reviewed music from Romania (The Pixels), Belgium (Hermanos Inglesos), Germany (Malente), Italy (Herr Styler), Sweden (MF/MB/), Mexico (Colateral Soundtrack) and Turkey (Fuji Kureta) as well as the good [...]

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[Introducing] – Alice Gun

Hailing from North London, Alice Gun is a classically-trained, self-taught multi-instrumentalist who can play guitars, glockenspiel, double bass, cello, E-bow, accordion and a lopsided upright, apparently.  Oh and she can sing, boy can she sing! Alice records at her home and in an isolated farmhouse in one of the only places in the UK that [...]

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[Listen/Download] – New Song By Gorillaz – “Crystalised” (The XX Cover)

Last week Gorillaz (or at least Damon Albarn and a bunch of people from the band) stopped by the BBC’s Live Lounge with Jo Whiley and recorded a few songs for her, one of which is a piano-led and more sullen (if you ever thought that was possible) version than the original, as well as [...]

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[Listen/Download] – Brand New Song By Blur – Fool’s Day

A few days ago Blur announced that in celebration of Record Store Day they had recorded a brand new song and were going to release it as a limited edition 7″ (only 1,000 copies were being pressed).  That got everyone excited as not only did it add fuel to the fire about them reuniting proper [...]

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[Listen] – Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (2010)

Gorillaz drop their third studio album “Plastic Beach” on March 8th in the U.K. and March 9th in the U.S., but thanks to NPR you can listen to the whole thing below (or on NPR’s site) for free. (via NPR) 53R4DPQ3NVAB

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