Posts tagged "Broken Bells"
Spin Cycle: The Shins' "Port of Morrow"

Spin Cycle: The Shins’ “Port of Morrow”

James Mercer and an (all new) band of Shins are back after a five-year absence. How much does a new lineup alter the landscape of The Shins’ intricate pop? Read the review and find out.

Spin Cycle: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s “Rome”

I suppose that in a perfect world, producer/musician/all-around auteur Brian Burton—you know him as Danger Mouse, folks, or at least you should—would come to define the true sound of the past decade. In a sense, he kinda has: as one-half of Gnarls Barkley, his “Crazy” has become synonymous with the sort of insidious, viral, ubiquitous gross-genre smash that Outkast perfected a year prior with “Hey Ya!”, something so off-beat and yet so catchy that it couldn’t help but catch fire, […]

Chartstalker 3/17/10: It's Ludacris!

(now say that in a Mike Tyson voice. That’s what I was going for.) This week’s Billboard album chart is led by a pair of new entries. Atlanta rapper Ludacris bows on top with his latest album, “Battle of the Sexes”. Bolstered by the hits “How Low” and “My Chick Bad”, Luda scans 137,000 units in his opening salvo.  If that number sounds a little low, well, it is. Luda’s last album, “Theater of the Mind” opened with 213,000 units […]

Chartstalker 3/10/10: Who the Hell is Taio Cruz?

I’ll get to the albums chart in a minute, but I must first register my surprise at this week’s new #1 single. British newcomer Taio Cruz jumps from #53 to #1 on the Hot 100 with his new single “Break Your Heart”, which features Ludacris (who will now have an impressive three songs in the Top Ten). I’ll admit that even as I write this, I haven’t heard the song yet (bad reporting, I know…but I have the Broken Bells […]

Danger Mouse + James Mercer=Musical Heaven?

Where Brian Burton goes, I will follow. He successfully mashed up two of my favorite artists on “The Grey Album”. He produced one of the best albums in Beck Hansen’s career full of great albums. He joined forces with Cee-Lo to create Gnarls Barkley, the most commercially successful project in the career of the artist who set the black weirdo blueprint for Andre Benjamin. Let’s not forget about Dangerdoom. Now, the man more commonly known as Danger Mouse has teamed […]