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New Release Report 6/12/12: Usher, Rush, Bobby Womack & More

by MJ on Jun 12, 2012 • No Comments

The members of Rush make their triumphant return this week with a new album! Find out what other artists are releasing projects in our latest New Release Report!

The Singles Bar: Bobby Womack’s “Please Forgive My Heart”

by MJ on Mar 12, 2012 • No Comments

music / New Releases / news / Pop Music / soul music

Bruce Springsteen sings “we take care of our own,” but it’s obvious that when he does so, he’s not talking about young soul musicians in reference to older soul musicians. It’s not often that you hear today’s soul and hip-hop musicians (with the exception of someone like Questlove) lending a hand to the older generation to bring the music that inspired them to perform to a younger generation. It’s often left to rock musicians to bring artists like Solomon Burke […]

The Singles Bar: Gorillaz (feat. Andre 3000 and James Murphy)’s “DoYaThing”

by Drew on Feb 23, 2012 • 1 Comment

hip-hop / music / Pop Music / The Singles Bar

This collaboration between genre-hopping anime band Gorillaz and fellow spaced-out geniuses Andre 3000 (better known as the guy from Outkast wearing all that purple) and James Murphy (better known as now-defunct LCD Soundsystem’s main maestro and treasurer of the Justin Vernon Foundation For Frontmen Who Do NOT Share A Name With Their Band) has been gabbed about for several weeks now. No, this isn’t indicative of a full-scale album-length collaboration–although if it were, I’d stop waking up in the middle […]

Danger Mouse + James Mercer=Musical Heaven?

by MJ on Mar 9, 2010 • No Comments

hip-hop / Indie Rock / music / New Releases / news / pop culture / Pop Music / rock music

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 […]