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Song of the Day #6,479: ‘O Green World’ – Gorillaz

I’ve noted that the 2026 movie year is off to a great start, and I’m just as excited by the number of promising titles still to come. I’m especially heartened to see the number of large-scale blockbusters by big-name directors on the horizon — it gives me hope that box office receipts, sagging since COVID, will finally bounce back.

Following are 25 movies I’m looking forward to this year. Note that most of these are sequels and/or high-profile, star-driven projects — that’s because those titles grab release dates early for marketing purposes. Certainly many more worthy films, including indie and foreign releases, are bubbling up under the surface. So what follows is just the tip of an encouraging cinematic iceberg.

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Song of the Day #5,934: ‘Feel Good Inc.’ – Gorillaz

Continuing my look at the albums of 2005…

Yesterday I wrote about an album that just isn’t for me. Today’s album falls into another category: one that may well be for me, but I don’t see myself ever taking the time to find out.

As I get older and have more albums to hear from the artists I already love, I find it increasingly harder to add new finds to the mix. That goes for current releases but especially for releases from years past. I’ve finally come to peace with the idea that I’ll die having not heard plenty of great music.

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Song of the Day #3,986: ‘Clint Eastwood’ – Gorillaz

Perhaps the most creative album release of 2001 belonged to Gorillaz, a “virtual band” dreamed up by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and comic book artist Jamie Hewlett. The pair created a quartet of animated band members as a comment on the increasing role of visuals in music through MTV.

Over the course of its successful (and still active) career, Gorillaz has been made up of a rotating series of band members around Albarn. For their self-titled 2001 debut, the lineup consisted of Albarn, Junior Dan, Jason Cox, Dan the Automator and Del the Funky Homosapien.

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