In advance of the Grammys Monday night, the Blerd Radio sat down and picked our winners in the major categories. Listen up!
A Satisfying (But Not Groundbreaking) Look Into Mark Ronson’s “Record Collection”
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 […]
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 […]