Blur had a wildly different name before being signed by their first record label, who made the four-piece change their name, ...

Hanging on to a deflated genre, Blur’s debut album sounded uninspired. When Blur returned home from a U.S. tour they saw the band Suede on the cover of every music magazine that mattered in the ...

Meanwhile, Modern Life… looks back, in Colin Zeal’s homage to The Teardrop Explodes’ Went Crazy, and forward, in Starshaped’s pre-echoes of End Of The Century, and Coxon rocks harder than on any Blur ...

When Blur reformed in 2009, did we necessarily think they were going to record a new album? Evidently, these are busy men with active careers: solo albums, light operas, political campaigns ...