

The band have sold over 25 million records worldwide and are cited by Guinness World Records as the world's "Most Successful Virtual Band". Gorillaz has presented itself live in a variety of different ways throughout the band's history, such as hiding the touring band from the audience's view in the early years of the project, projecting animated band members on stage via computer graphics and traditional live touring featuring a fully visible touring band.
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Gorillaz' latest project is Song Machine, a music-based web series with episodes that consist of standalone singles and accompanying music videos featuring different guests each episode, resulting in their seventh album, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (2020). Their sixth album, The Now Now (2018), featured stripped-down production and a greater musical focus on Albarn. The band's fifth album, Humanz, was released after a seven-year hiatus on 28 April 2017. Their fourth album, The Fall (2010), was recorded on the road during the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour and released on 25 December 2010. The band's third album, Plastic Beach (2010), featured environmentalist themes, an electropop approach and an expanded roster of featured artists.

Their second studio album, Demon Days (2005), went six times platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US and spawned the successful lead single " Feel Good Inc.". The band's 2001 debut album Gorillaz, which featured dub, Latin and punk influences, went triple platinum in the UK and double platinum in Europe, with sales driven by the success of the album's lead single " Clint Eastwood". With Gorillaz, Albarn departed from the distinct Britpop of his band Blur, exploring a variety of musical styles including hip hop, electronic music and world music through an "eccentrically postmodern" approach. became the producer for the band after several years of providing the voice of Russel, John Davis became the mastering engineer, and Samuel Egglenton the assistant engineer.

Stephen Sedgwick has been the mixing engineer for the band since 2005. Gorillaz' music often features collaborations with a wide range of featured artists. Their fictional universe is presented in music videos, interviews and short cartoons. The band primarily consists of four animated members: 2-D ( vocals, keyboards), Murdoc Niccals ( bass guitar), Noodle ( guitar, keyboards, vocals), and Russel Hobbs ( drums). ET, about an hour before the darkest shadow of the moon, called the umbra, first touches Oregon.įrom there, the umbra will zoom southeast at between 1,440 and 2,370 mph, ending its American journey 93 minutes later in South Carolina.Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, from London, England. NASA's first stream goes on air at 8:45 a.m.

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NASA is pulling out all of the stops with two live feeds of the solar eclipse, via NASA TV and NASA Edge, across multiple popular streaming-video services. As new ones go live, we'll embed or link to them - so bookmark this page for later. If you're not planning to travel and brave the traffic, though, there will be plenty of ways to watch a livestreamed video of the eclipse.īelow, Business Insider has compiled a collection of what should be the best feeds. The path of totality will touch 14 states, but hotels in those regions began selling out a year ago. A partial solar eclipse will be visible around the entire country, but totality - when the moon fully blocks the sun and produces eerie-looking effects - can be seen only within a 60- to 70-mile-wide sliver. On Monday, the moon will slip in front of the sun and cast a dark shadow that will travel across the contiguous United States. The great American total solar eclipse of 2017 is upon us. (An illustration of a total solar eclipse.NASA/GSFC/CI Lab) Total solar eclipse moon sun illustration nasa svs
