"Magic Whip"", was released in select British theatres. Blur have been on hiatus once again since the 2015 tour promoting ""The Magic Whip"". In 2018, Albarn said that a Blur reunion is ""Never not a possibility"", and confessed ""I’d hate to think I’d never play with those musicians again."" Blur (band) Blur are an English rock band formed in London in 1988. The group consists of singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/singer Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Their debut album ""Leisure"" (1991) incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing. Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar pop"
"uncle, Joseph Pope (1933–1996), formed the R&B group The Tams. Cottle joined the R&B quartet Xscape in 1992 while attending Tri-Cities Performing Arts High School. Xscape was discovered by producer Jermaine Dupri while singing at his birthday celebration in Atlanta. Dupri immediately signed the group to his then new record label, So So Def Recordings. As a member of the group, Cottle has contributed to three of the band's platinum albums: ""Hummin' Comin' at 'Cha"", ""Off the Hook"", and ""Traces of My Lipstick"". As a member of Xscape, she has received two Soul Train Music Awards for Best New R&B"
"Amy Blue Amy Blue is a British alternative rock band composed of Simon Chatterton (guitar), JP Rutter (guitar), Lex Sampson (drums) and Tom Parr (bass). The group's name was inspired by Rose McGowan's character in the 1995 Gregg Araki movie ""The Doom Generation"". Amy Blue was formed in February 2003 by Simon Chatterton and JP Rutter. Chatterton was previously known for performing solo at university in Northampton under nom de plume evol-i, and was a roadie for hardcore band Jnr Loaded. The band combined industrial noise and quiet atmospherics with traditional songwriting, crafted for two years in a boiler room"
"Childhood friends Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon from Essex met Alex James when they began studying at London's Goldsmiths College in 1988. Albarn was in a group named Circus, who were joined by drummer Dave Rowntree that October. Circus requested the services of Coxon after the departure of their guitarist. That December, Circus fired two members and James joined as the group's bassist. This new group named themselves Seymour in December 1988, inspired by J. D. Salinger's """". The group performed live for the first time in summer 1989. In November, Food Records' A&R representative Andy Ross attended a Seymour"
"the world, on a culture blog called Listverse. Denton bands include longtime mainstay and two-time Grammy Award-winning Brave Combo, EXIT 380, The Wee-Beasties, Norah Jones, Deep Blue Something, The Ducks (not the former Moby Grape band), Lift to Experience, Centro-Matic, Brutal Juice, Six Hard Brothers and a Dog, Drunk Skunks, Harry Has a Head Like a Ping Pong Balls, SayWhat, Chyeah Boi, the Don't Be Scurd, OkieDoke, South San Gabriel, Slobberbone, Pops Carter and the Funkmonsters, The Drams, Bosque Brown, Eli Young Band, Matthew and The Arrogant Sea, Midlake, Record Hop, History At Our Disposal, The Marked Men, Fergus &"
"a Mitsubishi advert, indicating a new direction for the band's sound. The band subsequently became a five-piece, comprising Roman, Collins, David Milone (Vocals/Guitar) (who replaced original guitarist/singer Tommy Williams in 2005), Gerard Garone (Keyboards), and P.J. O'Connor (Percussion), and teamed up with James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy's DFA Productions to produce their second album. This collaboration signalled a new direction for the band, merging the guitar punk of their first album with electronic and dance music influences to create a dance-punk sound similar to other DFA-affiliated artists such as The Rapture. ""Gotham!"" was released in 2002 on Gern Blandsten, described"
"He is now co-founder of digital strategy firm Fight, and runs the independent record label, Pampelmoose. In 2014, he joined Beats Music as Director, Artist & Music Industry Advocacy. After Apple Inc. acquired Beats, he stayed on in Apple Music Artist Relations. Dave Allen (English musician) David Geoffrey Allen (born 23 December 1955, in Cumbria) is an English musician, formerly the bass guitarist for the post-punk band, Gang of Four. In 1981, he left Gang of Four to form Shriekback. He later founded World Domination Recordings and two of its bands, The Elastic Purejoy and Low Pop Suicide (with Rick"
"Damone (band) Damone was an American rock band with distinct elements from power pop in their sound. The band originated in Waltham, a city located just west of Boston, Massachusetts and consisted of Noelle LeBlanc (vocals/guitar), Mike Woods (guitar), Michael Vazquez (bass guitar) and Dustin Hengst (drums). The band was formed by Dave Pino, guitarist for the rock band Waltham and then-teenage singer/guitarist Noelle LeBlanc who later formed The Organ Beats. The band was originally known as Noelle, and released an album called ""This Summer"" under that name, which was later re-recorded under the name From the Attic. Damone released"
"breakup of the band in 2001, Che recruited new personnel for a reconstituted Don Caballero in 2003 and released two albums, ""World Class Listening Problem"" and ""Punkgasm"" on Relapse Records before going on hiatus once again in 2009. The group's original lineup consisted of Damon Che (drums), Mike Banfield (guitars), and Pat Morris (bass guitar). The members of Don Caballero originally intended to draft a singer and a second guitarist to join the group. However, their early rehearsals generated such interest that the trio was offered paying gigs and decided to remain instrumental. Che's energetic and unconventional style of drumming"
"Cream (band) Cream were a British rock power trio formed in 1966 consisting of drummer Ginger Baker, guitarist/singer Eric Clapton and lead singer/bassist Jack Bruce. The group's third album, ""Wheels of Fire"" (1968), is the world's first platinum-selling double album. The band is widely regarded as the world's first successful supergroup. In their career, they sold more than 15 million records worldwide. Their music included songs based on traditional blues such as ""Crossroads"" and ""Spoonful"", and modern blues such as ""Born Under a Bad Sign"", as well as more current material such as ""Strange Brew"", ""Tales of Brave Ulysses"" and"
"After Kooper left the group, Colomby and Katz began to look for a new vocalist, considering Alex Chilton (after the breakup of soul-rock group the Box Tops but before the formation of Big Star), Stephen Stills, and Laura Nyro. Ultimately, they decided upon David Clayton-Thomas, a Canadian singer, born in Surrey, England. Reportedly, folk singer Judy Collins had seen Clayton-Thomas perform at a New York City club and was so taken and moved by his performance that she told Colomby and Katz about him (knowing that they were looking for a new lead singer to front the band). With her"
"Jack Bruce. The Graham Bond Organisation was an R&B/blues group with strong jazz leanings. Baker founded the rock band Cream in 1966 with Jack Bruce and guitarist Eric Clapton. A fusion of blues, psychedelic rock and hard rock, the band released four albums in a little over two years before breaking up in 1968. Baker then joined the short-lived ""supergroup"" Blind Faith, composed of Clapton, bassist Ric Grech from Family, and Steve Winwood from Traffic on keyboards and vocals. They released only one album, ""Blind Faith"", before breaking up. In 1970 Baker formed, toured and recorded with fusion rock group"
"Silver Band, a brass band. After leaving school he studied for a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Computer Science at Thames Polytechnic, and started his career as a computer programmer for Colchester Borough Council. Rowntree had played in bands with Graham Coxon while the two were growing up in Colchester, and knew Coxon's father who taught jazz classes at Landermere. In 1989 Coxon introduced Rowntree to Damon Albarn, who was forming a band around Goldsmiths, University of London. Rowntree was asked to join, and left his job to move to London. With the addition of Alex James, and after many"
"Daniel Amos Daniel Amos (aka D. A., Dä) is an American Christian rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. The band currently consists of Taylor, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart. Over the band's career, they have included keyboardist Mark Cook, drummer Alex MacDougall, bassist Tim Chandler and keyboardist Rob Watson with sounds that experimented with country rock, rock, new wave and alternative rock. The roots of Daniel Amos began to grow out of Jubal's Last Band, an"
"Jack Bruce John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter known primarily for his contributions to the British supergroup Cream, which also included the guitarist-singer Eric Clapton and the drummer Ginger Baker. In March 2011 ""Rolling Stone"" readers selected him as the eighth greatest bass guitarist of all time. ""Most musicians would have a very hard time distinguishing themselves if they wound up in a band with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker,"" the magazine said at the time, ""but Jack Bruce was so gifted on the bass that he did"
"album ""Damon Andy Rob Ron: The Yes Girls"" in 2000 on Sneaky Flute Empire/Pehr and a limited edition live album on Sneaky Flute Empire. The band began to settle into being an outfit with a cast of guest musicians who revolved in and out of the group to accommodate other members' academic, career, and family commitments: Seana Carmody, Vanessa Downing, and Damon's sister Kara Tutunjian often joined onstage for live vocals, Mike Walker and Tarquin Katis occasionally sat in for Bernick on bass, as well as Ken Bernard and Kevin Shea for Adam Pierce on drums. Deborah Warfield joined the"
"(1988), ""Blacks' Magic"" (1990), ""Very Necessary"" (1993), and ""Brand New"" (1997), plus several greatest hits albums. Salt-N-Pepa disbanded in 2002, several months after their ""Brand New"" album was released on Red Ant Records. Denton's group member Cheryl James had stated she was ready to leave the music industry. The trio reunited for a performance on VH1's ""Hip Hop Honors"" program on September 22, 2005. In 2005, Denton was a cast member of VH1's ""The Surreal Life"" (season 5). Denton's acting credits also include the motion picture ""Joe's Apartment"", an appearance in the HBO movie ""First Time Felon"", and a stint"
"Ian's roommate, co-produced the album and became the trio's manager. Dexter also gave them their first major gig, 20 December 1970, at ""Implosion"" at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, as the opening act for The Who, Elton John, Patto and The Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band & Choir for a Christmas charity event. Although the trio initially planned to record the album in a similar manner to The Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"", Samwell convinced them to perfect their acoustic style instead. The debut album ""America"" was released in 1971 to only moderate success, although it sold well in"
"to 1991's The Rapture (film). Svenonius has a penchant for obscure film references and name-dropping (most obvious in David Candy's ""Play Power""). Cupid Car Club Cupid Car Club, also known as Cupid Car Club M.P., was a short-lived American post-hardcore band consisting of Ian Svenonius on vocals, James Canty on drums, Steve Gamboa on guitar (all of which were previously members of Nation of Ulysses and later went on to form The Make-Up), and Kim Thompson (of The Delta 72) on bass and vocals. They released one 7"" EP on Kill Rock Stars, called ""Join our Club"". Cupid Car Club"
"a demo tape he gave to Chips Moman, owner of American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. When studio associate Dan Penn was looking for an opportunity to produce more songs, Moman suggested a local group, the DeVilles, who had a new lead singer, sixteen year-old Alex Chilton. The other four members of the group that played on the session were Danny Smythe on drums, Richard Malone on guitar, John Evans on organ, and Russ Caccamisi on bass. Penn gave the group Carson's demo tape for some songs to work up. With little or no rehearsal, the group arrived at American"
"and ""13"". In an otherwise highly enthusiastic review of the best-of for the ""NME"", Steve Sutherland criticised the band's ""sheer disregard"" for their earlier work; ""Just because these songs embarrassed them once they started listening to broadsheet critics and retreated wounded from the big-sales battle with Oasis doesn't mean that we're morons to love them."" After ""13"" and the subsequent tours in 1999–2000, band members pursued other projects. Graham Coxon recorded a string of solo albums, while Damon Albarn dedicated his time to Gorillaz, the animated band he had created with Jamie Hewlett. Alex James worked with Fat Les and"
"annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Nominations are chosen by a panel of musicians, music executives, journalists and other figures in the music industry in the UK and Ireland. Damon Albarn Damon Albarn (; born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, best known as the lead singer of the British rock band Blur as well as the co-founder, lead vocalist, instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the virtual band Gorillaz. Raised in Leytonstone, East London and around Colchester, Essex, Albarn attended the Stanway School, where he met guitarist Graham Coxon and formed"
"dominated by tensile Oz Rock bands. So he set about reinventing the venerable entity, changing it from vocal group to vocal band. The line up changed but the essence continued on. Contributors to these changes included musicians and vocalists: Alan Freeman, who previously played bass with the jazz singer Kerry Bidell; Johnny Charters, who played with Johnny Rebb’s Rebels in the 1960s; Alex Plavsic, an ex-member of the progressive rock group Sebastian Hardie; as well as Vic Schrier, Ralph Wilcock, Bob Cook, and Robert Kitney. Danny Mayers joined The Delltones after Wilson saw him perform at the Palais Royale in"
"Eve, Salt n Pepa, Da Brat, The Notorious B.I.G., Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Queen Latifah, Eminem, Foxy Brown, DMX, Outkast, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur. Diamond (rapper) Brittany Nicole Carpentero (born May 20, 1988), better known by her stage name Diamond, is an American rapper and member of the group Crime Mob. Brittany Nicole Carpentero was born May 20, 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia to an African American mother and a Puerto Rican father. At the age of fifteen, Diamond joined the group Crime Mob in 2004. Crime Mob first garnered national attention in 2004 with their single ""Knuck If You Buck,"""
"The Electric Soft Parade The Electric Soft Parade are an English psych pop band from Brighton, comprising brothers Alex and Thomas White, the creative core of the band, as well as a number of other musicians with whom they record and perform live, most recently including Andrew Mitchell (of Dundee-based group The Hazey Janes) and Damo Waters, as well as long-standing bass/keyboard player, Matthew Twaites. Alex and Thomas originally formed Fixed Ascent (later The Feltro Media) with schoolfriends Alistair Gavan and Russell Gleason in around 1997. Whilst ostensibly a formulaic indie outfit, there were flashes of the more complex symphonic"
"album. In 1990 he appeared in the video for Michael Bolton's hit ""How Can We Be Lovers"" and briefly toured with Player in 1998. with Ted Nugent with Jimmy Barnes with Richie Sambora with REO Speedwagon with Mastedon Dave Amato David Paul ""Dave"" Amato (born March 3, 1953) is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band REO Speedwagon since May 1989. He was born and raised near Framingham, Massachusetts. At age 11, his first band was called ""The Sandstones."" The lineup included Steve Bremner (guitar), Gino Bonvini (bass), and Gary Pegararo (drums). Amato's later"
"that the band was ""blatantly just pop music. We were a ""new"" pop group. That's all."" After 1982's ""English Settlement"", the band stopped concert touring and became a studio-based project centred on Partridge, Moulding, and guitarist Dave Gregory. They produced more progressive recordings, including ""The Big Express"" (1984), ""Skylarking"" (1986), ""Oranges & Lemons"" (1989), ""Nonsuch"" (1992) and ""Apple Venus Volume 1"" (1999). A spin-off group, the Dukes of Stratosphear, was invented as a one-off excursion into 1960s-style psychedelia, but as XTC's music evolved, the distinctions between the two bands lessened. Due to poor management, they never received a share of"
"Salt-N-Pepa Salt-N-Pepa (also stylized as Salt 'N' Pepa, Salt 'N Pepa) are an American hip-hop/rap trio from New York City, New York. The group, consisting of Cheryl James (""Salt""), Sandra Denton (""Pepa"") and originally Latoya Hanson (also known as Latoya Pamela Greene), who was replaced in 1987 by Deidra Roper (""DJ Spinderella""), was formed in 1985 and was one of the first all-female rap groups. The group won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. In mid-1985, Brooklyn-native Cheryl James met Queens–native Jamaican rapper Sandra Denton, both studying nursing at Queensborough Community College. The"
"band with his Goodenough College friends Alistair Watson, Andrew Morgan and Benjamin Salmon. The band was initially called ""Babygrand"" but was changed to ""Roundstone"" in 2007. Dominic Scott Dominic Scott (born 15 May 1979) is an Irish guitarist, and the founder of the English rock band Roundstone and a founding member of the pop rock band Keane. Scott attended Tonbridge School in Kent, where he met the other members of the band which would become Keane. In 1995, he asked his friend Tim Rice-Oxley to form a band to play covers from U2, Oasis and The Beatles. They invited Richard"
"acclaim. Since composing the Blur song, ""You're So Great"", Coxon had started a solo career and as of 2001 had released three solo albums. The members differing musical interests had alienated some of the band members, with Coxon explaining, ""we're all very concerned for each other and we do genuinely like each other an awful lot. Because we're into so much different stuff, it becomes daunting."" Nevertheless, Coxon, along with Alex James and Dave Rowntree were keen for a new album, whilst Albarn was more reluctant. Blur's prior album, ""13"", had made heavy use of experimental and electronic music with"
"at the time Albarn and Rowntree were part of a band called Circus. In 1989, James joined Coxon, Albarn and Rowntree's new band, Seymour, which would later be renamed Blur. While he has been in the band ever since, he now describes the experience as ""a past-life"". Despite this, Blur got together with returning bandmate Graham Coxon to perform at Glastonbury Festival, Hyde Park, Oxegen and T in the Park during the summer of 2009. They also played shows at Goldsmiths College, Essex Museum and other venues around the UK and mainland Europe. Blur headlined a show at Hyde Park"
"with BMG. The band released their third album ""Later...When the TV Turns to Static"" in September 2013. It received generally favourable reviews from critics but failed to match the commercial success of previous albums. In 2018, the band announced a UK tour celebrating the ten year anniversary of their self titled platinum-selling debut album. The album was also reissued with new artwork in gold. The band was formed by cousins James Allan and Rab Allan in the summer of 2003 with Paul Donoghue and Ryan Ross on drums completing the line-up soon after. Local gigs in and around Glasgow were"
"anniversary. With this announcement, the band released a new version of their debut single, titled ""The First Big Weekend of 2016"", as remixed by Miaoux Miaoux. They later added a second date in Glasgow (after the first one sold out in under half an hour) and a warm-up date in Newcastle. A string of festival dates in 2017 followed. Arab Strap Arab Strap are a Scottish indie rock band whose core members are Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton. The band were signed to independent record label Chemikal Underground, and split in 2006. As indicated by the title of Belle &"