Damon Albarn

Gruff Rhys: Brexit seems to be like some sort of strange right-wing death cult

Joan Wasser has no regrets about delaying her solo career until into her 30s. But as she releases a 'Best of' collection, the Connecticut songwriter is looking forwards, not back

Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up

Sold-out music festival also announces John Grant, The Wailers and Anna Calvi

Damon Albarn's psychogeographic tour gives the sense of a country on the verge of catastrophe

The Blur frontman on ‘Merrie Land’, Britpop, Oasis, Morrissey and John Lydon

Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen, Noel Gallagher, Florence + the Machine among nominees for album of the year

Also: Liam Gallagher, The National, A-Ha, Haim, Giant Sand, Vancouver Sleep Clinic

Artists carry white roses in protest against sexual harassment as Stormzy asks ‘Theresa May, where’s the money for Grenfell?’

The veteran record producer on Bowie, Morrissey and his problem with Steve Albini

The producer says Farrell solo album and Albarn’s The Good, the Bad and the Queen will have new releases in 2018

There’s some serious riffage courtesy of Bitch Falcon and Royal Bloood while Queen + Adam Lambert and S Club Live look back

How Music Works: Mark Murphy of Choice Cuts on how he reinvented the Leeson Street venue as a musical mecca for a new generation of hip-hop, jazz, R&B and soul fans

Who knows when Sgt Pepper by The Beatles was first declared the greatest LP of all time? It’s not even their best

Laura Jurd is one of jazz's fastest rising stars but her band Dinosaur has a sound that's pure early 1970s electric funk

ORCHESTRA OF SYRIAN MUSICIANSAfrica Express Presents the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians and Guests ****Transgressive

New book features images and interviews with world’s most famous drummers

ZZ Top among newly confirmed acts for festival headlined by Adele, Coldplay and Muse

A live tribute to the songs and music of David Lynch brings together an eclectic group of artists

The group have been singing the canon for a decade – but what happens now that they are making their own music?

The charts are a load of boll*cks. Bono goes on a bit. And he would be ‘f**king very, very, very interested’ in collaborating with Damon Albarn

‘The Magic Whip’ will be the first album as a foursome since 1999’s ‘13’

Swinging from Blur to Gorillaz but the show must go on . . .

Bray singer up against Beck, Jack White, John Legend and Pharrell Williams

A giddy, colourful Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Will Kate Tempest and FKA twigs be slugging it out for the 2014 award?

Jungle talk a good game, know all about playing smoke and mirrors – and have the album of the season to prove it. We're ‘an escape from those ideals of what people think bands should be all about’ says Josh Lloyd-Watson

No need to wait until your favourite acts do the festival circuit in Ireland. Get our continental drift? Lauren Murphy’s top 10 European festivals

To create her new tUnE-yArDs album, Merrill Garbus kept strict hours in the studio, writing songs and reading James Joyce. ‘He was one who really shifted what words could do,’ says the fast-talking ex-puppeteer

Following the successful revival of Blur, not to mention his many other musical projects,Damon Albarn has finally recorded a solo album,‘Everyday Robots’. And he went back to his old stomping grounds of East London and Colchester for inspiration

Record Store Day has taken a kicking, but there’s hope yet

Jackson Pollock puked there, Dylan wrote lyrics there, Nancy Spungen was killed there – could a space as chaotic as the New York hotel exist today?