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Glastonbury 2009 Diary: Part 3

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By Jonathan Dekel (CHARTattack) July 3, 2009 12:32 pm
Saturday, June 28, 2009 Pilton, England Glastonbury Festival Hospitality Campgrounds 10:30 a.m. I awake in a bath of warm sweat, again. It's even worse today than it was yesterday. I run outside my tent in my underwear only to see that two older ladies are sitting in front of me having some tea — how civilized. I want to ask them if they...
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Blur — Think Tank

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By Elizabeth Chorney-Booth (CHARTattack) May 6, 2003 8:59 am
With his one-time rivals Oasis stuck in the purgatory of repeating their classic album over and over again, it’s hard to fault Damon Albarn for wanting to diversify. And diversification does have its benefits. Blur's last album, 13, which touched on a huge range of influences, was brilliant. But, Albarn and his Blur-mates (minus longtime guitarist...
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Blur — The Best Of

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By Megan Thow (CHARTattack) October 31, 2000 9:02 am
When I listened to Blur's Best Of for the first time, I immediately thought of a point that John Cusack made in High Fidelty, when he was mixing a tape for his girlfriend. He states, "The making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art. There are many dos and don'ts." Well, it seems as though Blur followed Cusack's advice to a tee...
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Blur Drummer Apologizes For Attacking Nardwuar

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By Michelle McGlynn (CHARTattack) April 1, 2011 4:22 pm
After the 2003 split of Blur, drummer Dave Rowntree went through somewhat of a mid-pop life crisis. With Damon Albarn shifting his priorities to Gorillaz, Graham Coxon dabbling in a solo career and Alex James blossoming into a food columnist, Rowntree did what anyone uncertain of their future does: he enrolled in law school.As a lawyer-to-be and...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 3, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 3, 2011 3:20 pm
Buck 65 has been nominated for two Genie Awards! He's up for best original song and best original score for the work he did on Sook-Yin Lee's Year Of The Carnivore. Elliott Brood are also up for best original song for "West End Sky" from Grown Up Movie Star. Paul J. Spence is also up for best original song for "There's No Place Like Christmas"...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 20, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 20, 2010 3:01 pm
Wintersleep's Paul Murphy has made two unreleased songs from his Postdata project available for free download as a special holiday present. You can get them here.In case you still care about them, Panic! At The Disco will release a new album called Vices And Virtues in March. —Alternative Press Paramore drummer and guitarist Zac Farro and Josh...
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 15, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 15, 2010 3:03 pm
The Besnard Lakes, Misteur Valaire, Fred Fortin, Random Recipe, Poirier, We Are Wolves, Radio Radio, and Brains won GAMIQ Awards last night. Arkells, Karkwa, The Sadies, Radio Radio, Sarah Harmer, Aidan Knight, Silly Kissers, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, The Pack A.D. and Hollerado have made this year's CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards short list....
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I Read The News Today... For Nov. 10, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) November 10, 2010 2:36 pm
Kanye West says Coldplay are better than The Beatles, proving he has not heard a single Beatles song in his entire life. —The Sun In other Kanye news, a porno based on the Taylor Swift incident is coming. Wow. I guess you really can make porn about anything... that or the porn industry is really running out of ideas. —Hollywood Life Death Cab For...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 7, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) October 7, 2010 12:08 pm
Canadian indie label Flemish Eye has released a 36-page 'zine, Eye Spy, and it's available at select record stores across Canada now. It features drawings by Chad VanGaalen, interview pieces with Women's Patrick Flegel and Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, and additional contributions from Jennifer Castle and others. —Flemish Eye Born Ruffians have just...
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Daily Poll: Blur Or Gorillaz?

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By CHARTattack Staff July 24, 2010 12:00 am
Damon Albarn always seems to be working these days. Last year he was part of a huge Blur reunion that saw the '90s Britpop band playing gigs across the U.K. for the first time in years. Soon after those gigs stopped, Albarn continued working on his new album with Gorillaz, his multimedia project that mixes hip-hop, world music, jazz, rock and...
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Blur — No Distance Left To Run

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By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) March 11, 2010 2:12 pm
No Distance Left To Run was conceived to document to Blur's 2009 reunion gigs in the U.K. The one-time Brit-pop sensations wisely seized the moment to rewrite their history in their own words, setting the record straight in a surprisingly candid documentary. Blur were always branded as the art-school foil to Oasis' working class rock. Here,...
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No Distance Left To Run Great For Blur, Less For Fans

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) January 19, 2010 5:20 pm
Blur, it appears, are all friends again. And while that may sound awesome in theory, it probably won't result in the sort of bounty — more shows, more albums, generally more Blur — long-time fans are hoping for. The full circle of the friendship between singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree is...
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Blur Film Being Screened In Canadian Theatres For One Day

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 13, 2010 12:43 pm
No Distance Left To Run, a documentary about Blur's comeback and tour last year, will screen in Canadian cities later this month. But if you want to see it, you'd better get tickets now because it's only here for one day. The film will screen in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Ont. and London, Ont. on Jan. 21...
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Blur Film Trailer

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By CHARTattack Staff November 30, 2009 1:42 pm
Here's the trailer for No Distance Left To Run, an upcoming documentary that chronicles Blur's history from their formation to their reunion tour this past summer. There are interviews with all four members, and footage from gigs at festivals like Glastonbury and T In The Park. No Distance Left To Run will open in theatres in January.
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Blur Guitarist Soundtracking British Movie

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By Mark Teo (CHARTattack) November 27, 2009 5:04 pm
It's been a smashing year for Blur, if we say so ourselves. First, they reunited for a string of shows earlier this year. Now, guitarist/sometimes lead singer Graham Coxon is releasing 45-minute soundtrack for a new, as-yet-untitled, British film. Coxon says he created 13 or 14 songs for the soundtrack, and they're mostly interpretations of...
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Blur Drummer Running In U.K. Election

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 6, 2009 1:05 pm
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree unsuccessfully ran for a Westminster City Council in London, England in 2007, and also ran for a Labour Party seat in the city in 2008, but now he's preparing for an even bigger political campaign. He'll run for the Labour Party to contest London's Cities Of London And Westminister seat in the 2010 U.K. general election...
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LEGO Rock Band Blur Game Preview

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By CHARTattack Staff October 16, 2009 1:26 pm
Here's a quick preview of what it'll be like to play Blur's "Song 2" in LEGO Rock Band, which features the band as playable characters. You can see those avatars in action in this clip. LEGO Rock Band is out Nov. 3.
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Blur Are Probably Done

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 24, 2009 4:17 pm
Talk about a total bummer. Blur bassist Alex James has told BBC News the band have no plans to play any more reunion shows, nor will they record a new album. Blur released seven albums from 1991 to their dissolution in 2003. They announced they would reunite last year and played a series of European shows recently and headlined a night at...
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Blur Bassist Is Royally Cheesy

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) July 17, 2009 12:05 pm
Blur bassist Alex James may be bandmates with a member of The Good, The Bad And The Queen, but he has a more legitimate link with royalty via his cheese-making enterprise. James got involved with farming after Blur went on their recently ended hiatus in 2003 and has won awards for his cheese. It's so good, in fact, that he's been appointed to...
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Noel Gallagher No Longer Hates Blur

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 16, 2009 10:51 am
Oasis and Blur may have had it out at each other in the British press in the '90s, but Oasis' enmity towards Daman Albarn and company is a thing of the past, singer/guitarist Noel Gallagher says. Gallagher did an interview with BBC television's Jonathan Ross on Friday, and Ross asked him what he thought about the recently reunited Blur. "...
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