Gorillaz will never be accused of having too little material. Five years ago (Damn that long ago?!), the supergroup put out G-Sides, a collection of b-sides from their debut album. Today, the group drops D-Sides, a collection of early demos and unreleased tracks and remixes from 2005’s Demon Days. We’ll let the machine take it from here:
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the men behind the curtain of the musical group the
This story was reported on towards the end of last year, but I thought it high time for an update. Omnipresent producer Brian Burton (Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, TGTB&TQ, Danger Doom) and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse — who worked together on Mark's latest album — will be releasing what's sure to be a hot collab sometime in the not-so-distant future: Dangerhorse. (I would have gone with Sparklemouse, but that's just me.) Danger Mouse, who caught the LA Sparklehorse gig at the Music Box, said that he's listened to a few songs they've already recorded and is very excited about the pairing. Then he told me he was running late for a meeting to discuss producing Jesus' new album, then sped off on a …
The Good, the Bad and the Queen
The Good, the Bad and the Queen
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Gorillaz leader takes it back to Old Blighty with punk, shoegaze and afrobeat veterans
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(Virgin) Joe Meek was a famed and tragic English record producer whose 1962 song “Telstar” (a spacey instrumental tribute to the world’s fi rst communication’s satellite launched that same year) became the fi rst British record to hit #1 on the U.S. charts. It’s hard not to imagine Damon Albarn as a modern day Meek—an oddball British auteur whose musical vision has surprisingly captured the interest of American audiences in a time when most English musicians can’t get arrested on these shores. Of course, thus far Albarn’s success has been tied to an easily digestible cartoon pop group whose main inspiration comes from hip-hop. Albarn’s new “supergroup” is an …
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