Hallelujah Monkeyz: A Gorillaz Fancast

At long last the time has come. As Damon Albarn prepares to see his animated band off for another decade or so with a few final exciting live shows, Dillon and Trevor sit down with a pair of guests that they’ve been meaning to speak with for quite some time: UK rap duo and Phase 1 Gorillaz collaborators Phi Life Cypher.

HOLY SHIT WE AREN'T DEAD DID YOU MISS US DO YOU HATE US DON'T WORRY WE HAVE SO MUCH GORILLAZ TO TALK ABOUT LIKE SOOOO MUCH GORILLAZ! TRANZ VIDEO! FREE MURDOC! TEASERS FOR OUR MYSTERY EPISODE! IT'S ALL HERE AND IT'S ALLLLLLLL GORILLAZ!

This week, Dillon and Trevor take a moment to congratulate a member of the Gorillaz family on some impressive detective work, before scrounging up some cash in an attempt to help spring Murdoc from jail and make Gorillaz great again. After that, the boys plot an expedition into Damon Albarn’s trans-Atlantic tunnel to confront their shadow doppelgängers and heed the call of an ancient forest deity...

THE NOW NOW IS OUT! WE LISTENED TO IT! THEN WE TURNED ON OUR MICROPHONES AND TALKED INTO THEM! THEN DILLON EDITED IT INTO THIS EPISODE! THAT'S ALL THAT HAPPENED, OH WAIT NO ALSO WE UPLOADED IT!

It's Father's Day and Dillon is trying desperately to connect with his kid

#FreeMurdoc! Dillon and Trevor dig into the plethora of phase 5 news this week and see if they can’t help bail out an old friend. Then it’s time to head back to the birth of britpop to wall up the borders, turn off the radio and dig into Sunday roast with Blur — modern life may be rubbish, but we’ve got another album by Damon’s old band to review!

HAPPY GORILLAZ DAY 2018! So much stuff went down today but we're just gonna focus on these 2 new songs and this music video in this breathless emergency episode. They're back! Phase 5! Sick!

Hope you brought your popcorn, because it’s movie night on Hallelujah Monkeyz! Before the show begins, Dillon and Trevor catch up with what’s been going on with Gorillaz, including the upcoming release of their next album The Now Now and a shocking addition to the lineup of the animated band. Then it’s lights, camera, action as the boys find themselves in the year 2033 with no cable television, no...

After giving Trevor a few weeks to log off from the Annotated Fall, everyone’s favorite monkeyz reconvene to crack the conspiracies surrounding the imminent sixth Gorillaz album and review the band’s new song with Kali Uchis. Next, our hosts are joined by a special guest for a trip down memory lane and a roundtable discussion of Vince Staple’s 2016 sophomore LP, Big Fish Theory. Sounds like the sh...

After attending a drunken coronation at the 2018 Brit Awards, Dillon and Trevor honor the late Captain Mark E. Smith by trying to review a record by his band the Fall – only to find themselves enlisted in a musical cult in service of the most chaotic evil fascist lunatic this side of Murdoc Niccals. Fortunately, the local devotees are a friendly lot, or at least a well-informed one. With a little...

Dillon and Trevor check in on the Gorillaz TV show before experiencing a devastating chocolate attack from De La Soul. Their debut album is trippy, it’s original, it’s fearless, but how many feet high and rising is it? (Hint: it’s a magic number)

After taking a moment to mourn the passing of a legendary and beloved member of the Gorillaz family, Dillon and Trevor loosen their belts and chow down on “Viva! La Woman”, a peculiar record by an eccentric duo known as Cibo Matto. These boys might know their chicken, but have they got the stomach for a surreal dinner with Miho Hatori?

To kick off a brand new season of the show, Dillon and Trevor say "better late than never" and exchange Christmas gifts! Then, in an exciting new segment, we take our first dip inside the Hallelujah Monkeyz Mailbag! After that it's back to 1991 to meet Britain's newest hitmakers Seymour, their precocious five-year-old frontman Damon Albarn, and their debut album "Leisure". With a bit of luck, the...

After a month away, Dillon and Trevor return to finish off season five of Hallelujah Monkeyz with a review of Damon Albarn’s solo record, Everyday Robots. Sure, there may only be one gorilla’s name on the cover, but there are a whole lot more monkeying around behind the scenes!

Having completed their journey to the west, Dillon and Trevor muster up what courage they have left to sit down with The Bravest Man in the Universe. Face your fears and join us this week for a discussion on the life and times of Bobby Womack, including his final solo album, which was co-written and produced by none other than Gorillaz patriarch Damon Albarn himself!

Dillon and Trevor embark on a Journey to the West and discuss Monkey, a Mandarin opera from 2007 featuring music by Damon Albarn and art design by Jamie Hewlett. With only the stars to guide them, it’s an odyssey unlike anything the show has seen before!

As Hallelujah Monkeyz approaches the end of its December hiatus, Trevor pops in with a few quick updates and a special holiday gift: the first episode of “One-Hit Wonders of the World” — an upcoming podcast starring friend-of-the-program and honorary Hallelujah Monkey Maxton Stenstrom.

In lieu of a massive Thanksgiving turkey of an episode, Dillon and Trevor are back this week with a measly tablespoon of cranberry sauce. But like the piilgrims setting forth with promise of an undiscovered world, they announce an exciting new Patreon exclusive! You can be like the Native Americans who generously shared their corn with the settlers by going to patreon.com/hallelujahmonkeyz and sup...

Cor blimey! After taking a spin through two high-concept hip hop records by notable Gorillaz collaborators, what’s next for Hallelujah Monkeyz? Why, it’s only the Good, the Bad, & the Queen, innit! If you ain’t ‘eard of it, it’s a very, very English record by that bloke from Blur, along with a few other famous faces that have played important roles in the history of Gorillaz both before and si...

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Just in time for Halloween, Dillon and Trevor turn on Adult Swim and sit down with The Mouse and the Mask, a one-off hip hop record from 2005 starring phase 2 Gorillaz collaborators Danger Mouse and MF DOOM. This episode may not seem too spooky at first listen, but if you play it backwards I’m pretty sure you can hear what sounds like an undead spirit rattling its chains and calling out for Phi Li...

In the first episode of a special family-oriented season of Hallelujah Monkeyz, Dillon and Trevor take a quantum leap to the distant future and check out Deltron 3030, 2001’s epic sci-fi hip-hopera starring Gorillaz collaborators Dan the Automator and Del the Funkee Homosapien. From rap battles to robots, it’s our most instupituous episode ever!

Something is gonna happen tonight! And by “tonight” I mean Thursday October 5th, which is when Dillon and Trevor had the great fortune of seeing Gorillaz live at the Forum in Los Angeles, California. Will all of their Gorillaz live dreams come true? Or will they end up busted and blue? Most importantly... who’s Arthur?

There’s plenty of news to get excited about this week, as Damon Albarn premiers a new Gorillaz song and grows ever closer to his dream of seeing his beloved musical children brought to life via holograms. After that, Dillon and Trevor hop into the studio with various incarnations of the Gorillaz live band to check out the Demon Detour — a series of live tracks recorded to promote Demon Days in 200...

This week, Dillon and Trevor take in a night at the opera, heading to Manchester circa 2005 to see Gorillaz perform Demon Days in its entirety. Well, they’re actually just reviewing another DVD, but hey, at least this way you don’t need to use those dumb little binocular things. What’re those called, anyways?