It must be nice to have Mark Ronson’s Rolodex. Well, it would be if people still used Rolodexes. His stepdad is Foreigner’s Mick Jones. He’s been buds with Sean Lennon since childhood. He’s a celebrity DJ of note, and he’s also a Grammy-winning producer (Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black”), whose first couple of albums boasted collaborations with everyone from Ghostface Killah and Anthony Hamilton to Robbie Williams and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Ronson’s third album, [amazon-product text=”Record Collection”” tracking_id=”popblerdcom-20″ type=”text”]B003LPUM5Y[/amazon-product] (actually […]
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New Release Report 9/28/10: Walking Down “Lonely Avenue” with Ben Folds
When I saw Ben Folds in concert earlier this year, he noted that the album he’d been working on with British author Nick Hornby had been completed, and I was super intrigued. I’m a pretty major Folds fan, and “High Fidelity” has long been on the list of my favorite books and films (and I also picked up “Long Way Down” over the summer…it was a great read). The one song that Folds played from the collaboration that night was […]
Mark Ronson’s Latest Joint Makes Me Want To “Lose It”
Grammy-Winning supa-producer Mark Ronson may only be two degrees of separation from Lindsay Lohan, but I don’t hold that against him. Dude knows his music, he produced my favorite album of the last ten years,and he’s one of the more eclectic musicians of recent times. His first album, “Here Comes the Fuzz”, was admirable but a little too all-over-the-place for me (despite scene-stealing turns by the likes of Ghostface Killah and Anthony Hamilton). His second album, “Version”, was a much […]
New Release Report 4/6/10: Does Sharon Jones Deserve Some Dap From You?
I, and I imagine lots of other people, found out about Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings after the DKs performed backup band duties on much of Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black”. I was totally willing to give them love for successfully recreating the sound of soul music circa 1965, but then I bought “100 Days, 100 Nights”, which pulled Winehouse (as well as Mark Ronson) out of the equation and I was quite unimpressed. Not to say Jones isn’t […]