FACT magazine

Listen to two songs by enigmatic soulman Child of Lov, featuring DOOM, Damon Albarn

9th May 2013 •

The Dutch bedroom-artist shares two songs from his debut album. The Child of Lov emerged last year, a mystery wrapped in an enigma etc., releasing a few demos but little more. His self-titled d [...]

Blur to “try and record another record”, according to Damon Albarn

7th May 2013 •

Way back in the wilds of 2012, when the Random Access Memories campaign was just a twinkle in a Columbia executive's eye, the big will-they-won't-they story centred around the (non-)possibility of [...]

Bobby Womack diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer’s while working on new album

2nd January 2013 •

Soul singer Bobby Womack has revealed that he's suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The 68 year old, who last year released his first album since the late 1990s in The Bravest Man in the Uni [...]

Listen to Damon Albarn’s audio collage in honour of BBC Radio’s 90th anniversary

15th November 2012 •

Damon Albarn's latest gig: composing musique concrète for Auntie. As reported, 'Radio Reunited' was commissioned by the BBC to celebrate 90 years of radio broadcasts by the Beeb. At 5.33pm y [...]

Damon Albarn to broadcast new “audio collage” on every BBC station simultaneously

13th November 2012 •

Modern day Renaissance Man Damon Albarn has been commissioned by the Beeb to produce a piece to celebrate the BBC Radio's 90th birthday. The three minute piece, titled Radio Reunited, will be s [...]

Africa Express collective, including Damon Albarn, to tour UK by train

25th July 2012 •

Damon Albarn, Amadou & Mariam, Charli XCX, and many more board the Africa Express train tour. Following the lead of the Grimes-Diplo-Skrillex Canadian tour, Africa Express will also be tour [...]

Damon Albarn signs up Charli XCX and Kano for Africa Express Tour

25th July 2012 •

Damon Albarn's itinerant Africa Express project is set to ride again in September. The enterprise typically sees Albarn assemble a rotating case of Western and African musicians for a seri [...]

Bobby Womack: <i>The Bravest Man in the Universe</i>

Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man in the Universe

19th June 2012 •

Available on: XL LP Due to the previous critical acclaim of the late Gil Scott-Heron’s I’m New Here the news of a return album from soul legend Bobby Womack on XL Records has the suspicious [...]

JJ DOOM album delayed; group working with Beth Gibbons and Damon Albarn

22nd May 2012 •

This shouldn't come as a surprise really, should it? Enigmatic rapper DOOM (formally MF Doom) has made a career out of delaying releases: the follow-up to Madlib and his classic Madvillainy is [...]