January 25, 2013 - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blur and the reunited Stone Roses will headline this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which will take place over two weekends in April.
February 23, 2012 - Fans in London for the 2012 Olympics will get a taste of two decades of British alt-pop before the final curtains drop on the games.
December 10, 2008 - Blur is reuniting and will return to the stage for a July 3 gig in Hyde Park, London, according to NME.com. The headlining show will be the first gig for the band's full line-up--Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree--since Coxon quit the band in 2002.
July 1, 2003 - With an initial round of North American club dates now in the books, British rockers Blur are gearing up for a second leg of shows that gets underway in mid-July.
June 5, 2003 - Organizers of New York's inaugural Field Day Festival have condensed the schedule from two days to one and have moved the event from a park on New York's Long Island to New Jersey's Giants Stadium.
May 15, 2003 - British rockers Blur, who recently released their first album since the departure last year of founding guitarist Graham Coxon, have scheduled a mix of North American club and festival dates for June.
July 31, 2001 - Blur frontman Damon Albarn had pretty much given up on having success in the United States. Two Blur records--1997's self-titled effort and 1999’s "13"--were modest hits, but that’s as big an impact the English pop band was able to make.
August 28, 2000 - Brit-pop cad, painter, record label honcho, skateboarder--think of Blur guitarist Graham Coxon as a post-Millennial Renaissance man. While his first solo effort "The Sky's Too High" could be considered a woozy case of mega-rocker sings the blues, his latest, "The Golden D," is hair-gripping punk glee that spits out MC5-like rave-ups and crude sonic sketches. It's both experimental and fanatical (he faithfully covers Mission to Burma's "Fame and Fortune" and "That's When I Reach for My Revolver").
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blur and the reunited Stone Roses will headline this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which will take place over two weekends in April. 
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