New Gorillaz Album Details

Gorillaz will drop their long awaited new album, Plastic Beach, in the US on March 9th via Virgin.  Damon Albarn has reached out his genius hands and pulled in some pretty exciting guest musicians for the project, including Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Lou Reed, Bobby Womack, De La Soul, and (!) Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of the Clash.  Gorillaz will headline one night of Coachella this Spring, and hopefully some more North American dates will surface soon.

Here the official stream of new Gorillaz single "Stylo" here.  The track features Mos Def & Bobby Womack.  Enjoy.

Gorillaz and Alan Moore?!?!?

In the Holy Shit news of the day, visionary artist Alan Moore is reportedly collaborating with Gorillaz on their next rock opera, according to an interview with Moore in Mustard magazine. Moore is the creator of the groundbreaking, graphic novels Watchmen & V for Vendetta, among others.

Gorillaz man-behind-the-curtain, Damon Albarn, has been off the radar for a while, finishing an album with De La Soul. The Blur frontman has also been tapped to direct the London Olympics 2012 opening ceremonies. These three projects couldn't be much different from one another seemingly, but with Albarn at the helm, I suspect that all three will shine.