Forgive me for wanting to stick my face between Dangermouse and whoever he's collaborating with these days and making motorboat noises, but the Broken Bells album does a good job of melding the floating hopeful melodies of James Mercer (the Shins)* and slick electronic cool of my favorite creative slutbus. Those swell folks over at Pitchfork already posted this track called "The High Road," the supposed first single... [...]
" Broken Bells , the hotly anticipated new project between Danger Mouse and the Shins' James Mercer , had a coming-out-party Friday night, performing at the intimate Bootleg Theater for industry pals and those lucky enough to score some of the tickets that went on sale Friday morning. With a capacity of about 200, tickets didn't last long, and Pop & Hiss was forced to head home to watch some Olympic ice dancing instead.* Nevertheless, plenty of amateur videographers were in attendance..."" [ LA Times ] Multiple live videos from [...]
It s Collabor-iffic. Or Is It Collabor-tastic? Collaboration. It s a tricky thing. Call it a side project and you re less inclined to have people over-judge you -"hey, we re just messin around and being creative and trying some things out". (If you re J ...
That period between Christmas and New Year is, essentially, meaningless. Hours pass by in a haze of food, drink and old Disney films and no-one can remember what day it is. During this period Musick heard a couple of songs by Broken Bells , aka producer Danger Mouse and that guy from The Shins . As with all Danger Mouse endevours - be it producing for the likes of Gorillaz , The Rapture and Beck , or co-fronting Gnarls Barkley - the results have a vintage feel, as if some lost record [...]
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