Wednesday, 29 December 2010

Gorillaz release iPad-made album


An album completely on iPad has been made by the British music act Gorillaz,available for free from the band’s web site.

The album name "The Fall" was produced by the help of iPad applications which include: Speak It!, SoundyThingie, Mugician and Solo Synth.

The interesting thing about this iPad release is that the whole ablum was shoot out on the road from Montreal to Vancouver via Seattle, Texas and Toronto over 32 days on their North American Tour.

“I did it because there's a lot of time that you just spend staring at walls essentially. And it was a fantastic way of doing it,” said Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn.

“I found working in the day, whether it's in the hotel or in the venue, it was a brilliant way of keeping myself well.”

Thursday, 23 December 2010

Gorillaz's member Damon Albarn has fuelled speculation his band

Gorillaz's member Damon Albarn, he has fuelled speculation his band after a planned hiatus he won't comeback by bidding farewell to fans at the final gig of the group's world tour in New Zealand.

In Auckland Gorillaz engrossed up their Escape To Plastic Beach tour in New Zealand on 21 Dec Tuesday and it was an emotional night for Albarn.

Albarn told the crowd, "I'm really trying to censor my sentimentality tonight... For us, this is the last time... we all hope and pray on this stage, and (for) all the people that work with us, that we will get a chance to work together as a collective again. But we may never do that again, so for us tonight is a very charged moment."

Saturday, 11 December 2010

Gorillaz to give away free album on Christmas Day


On this Christmas Gorillaz has decided to give away a brand new album for free.

The advent calendar earlier this month had been launched by the animated band and their plan to release free album is to coincide with their online advent calendar.

Gorillaz are giving their fans a series of festive treats ranging from behind the scenes footage to computer desktop wallpaper.

A free Ipad album will released by the Stylo hitmakers,this news has been revealed by Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett,it has been previously recorded by on the gadget during their latest tour.

Speaking to Perth Now, Hewlett explained: "On Christmas Eve a video for one of the new songs from the iPad album will be released. Then, on Christmas Day fans get the whole album downloaded to their computer for free as a gift."

Damon said: "I wanted to make sure that it came out at the end of the tour because I don't want anyone to think I'd tampered with it."

The former Blur frontman added: "If I left it until the New Year to release it then the cynics out there would say, 'Oh well, it's been tampered with', but if I put it out now they'd know that I haven't done anything because I've been on tour ever since."

Albarn also recently admitted that he could "retire" Gorillaz after their world tour, claiming that he will "see how he feels" in January to determine their future.

Friday, 3 December 2010

Gorillaz Launch Christmas Countdown

The Gorillaz group will be releasing daily gift for their fans because of Christmas occasion uptill 25 December 2011.

At Gorillaz official website you can win your mitts on some Xmas crackers.

According to another news,For the 2011 Grammy Awards band had received the nomination on two categories.