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Damon Albarn might just be the most unfuckwitable musician of the past two decades? Wanna test this theory? For starters, dude just released the album by DRC, a project recorded this summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Warp Records. The album features Damon Albarn, T-E-E-D, Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Rodaidh McDonald, Kwes and over 50 Congolese musicians. And unlike almost every collaborativ
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Major labels don’t have the best reputation. Corporate conglomorates flailing for their very existence while still trying to sell crap music to a public who has zero moral issue with robbing them blind. This rep may or may not be totally deserved, but it’s nice to see one of these giants doing something good for humanity. And in the process reminding us that some damn good music comes out on major labels as well.
EMI has announced the EMI Family 4 Japan auction, a series of EBay offers where you can bid on things like signed Daft Punk photos and race LCD Soundsystem vinyl, with all proceeds going to Japan relief efforts. And the compnay has promised to match the donations, up to $1 Million. Check it out and see if you cant’ live without a …
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You knew Jack White wasn’t going to stay quiet following the news of The White Stripes splitting up last week. Hell, the fallow years leading up the duo’s split were some of White’s most prolific, with The Raconteuers and The Dead Weather releasing no less than three albums since the Stripes unintended swan song, 2007’s Icky Thump. So it’s little surprise to hear White pop up on this new project by cross-genre producer Danger Mouse, whose studio pairing have ranged from hit making with Damon Albarn (as Gorillaz) and Cee-Lo (as Gnarls Barkley) to more oblique work with David Lynch and Sparklehorse.
“Two Against One” finds White contributing vocals to Danger Mouse’s latest collaboration with Italian composer Daniele Luppi under the name Rome. It’s quiet yet foreboding acoustic melodramatic sound is exactly the sort of song we like to hear White over when the guitars aren’t wailing.
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The year is almost wrapped, the votes have been tallied and here’s the list of winners from URB’s annual Readers Poll. So what did we learn from this look back at 2010?
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Christmas used to be a time for family, when even the Internets would more or less grind to a halt in difference to grandma’s cooking. But this year, three top acts in the indiesphere decided to put gifts under the digital tree. …MORE
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