One of the many things I love about Damon Albarn is that he stands in firm opposition to things, and then promptly does the same sort of thing himself, only the right way. It’s too easy to sit back and sneer at the state of modern popular music and congratulate yourself that your...

Damon Albarn and crew bring their live show to his hometown.By James Montgomery Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn performs at London’s Roundhouse on Thursday Photo: MTV There was a British orchestra dressed up as Russian sailors. A New York City rapper made up to look like Abraham...

The Big News: Lady Antebellum’s reign atop the charts came to an end as Ludacris and Gorillaz battled it out and the Atlanta rapper’s Battle of the Sexes took Number One on the Billboard 200 with 137,000 copies sold. Gorillaz landed at Number Two as Plastic Beach moved 112,000...

Did Gorillaz rock down to Electric Avenue and rip off a song by Eddy Grant for their Plastic Beach single “Stylo”? That’s what Grant himself is alleging, saying in a statement that Damon Albarn and his animated band borrowed heavily from his electro cut “Time...

This week Rolling Stone’s Daniel Kreps breaks down the Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach in our New Music Report. Kreps admits he didn’t immediately hear anything as instantly grabby as Demon Days‘ “DARE” or Gorillaz’s “Clint Eastwood” on their new...