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Danger Mouse Teases New Broken Bells LP

Pizzo — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:52:23 +0000

Producer Danger Mouse teases a new Broken Bells LP with the release of this video, following up the group’s 2010, self-titled debut, which he produced in full. The new album is called After The Disco, set for release in January of 2014. Check out a preview of the album’s first single below.

Broken Bells Album Teaser from Columbia Records on Vimeo.

Broken Bells Team With MySpace For Free Live EP

Pizzo — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:45:32 +0000

This is kind of cool…. Danger Mouse and James Mercer (The Shins) are Broken Bells, if you don’t know, and have teamed with MySpace Transmissions for a free downloadable EP, featuring “stripped stripped-back renditions of the songs performed and recorded during the session, including ‘The Ghost Inside’, ‘The High Road’, ‘October’ and ‘Vaporize’. These versions sound very similar to the originals, but are a good way to get a taste of the full-length album, available now. Grab it here.

UPDATED: The Official SXSW Video Highlights Post

Pizzo — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:53:20 +0000

With such an abundant amount of video surfacing from this week’s festival, we’ve decided to take some of the performances highlights and roll them all up into one post. Check back here regularly for updates over the next week.

Pharoah Monch @ SXSW Duck Down Showcase from AB on Vimeo.

Black Milk w/ AB & Daru “Loosing Out” @ SXSW from AB on Vimeo.

Devin The Dude – Fuck You from The Smoking Section on Vimeo.

Wiz Khalifa x Curren$y – Car Service from The Smoking Section on Vimeo.

Cool Kids @ SXSW! from Eazy on Vimeo.

Pac Div “Mayor” LIVE in Austin!! from Eazy on Vimeo.

Local Stop: SXSW “16″ C-RAYZ WALZ from MiZ MeTrO: UNLIMITED on Vimeo.

Freeway & Jake One + 6Magazine Conversation from 6Magazine on Vimeo.

Visually Heard / GLC Freestyle @ SXSW from LRG on Vimeo.

Mayer Hawthorne – I Wish It Would Rain SXSW 2010 from Dejon Shepard on Vimeo.

J.Cole – Beautiful Bliss SXSW 2010 from Dejon Shepard on Vimeo.

Kid Sister Live at SxSW from Sindre Rønningen on Vimeo.

Nicky Diamonds & Dante Ross @ SXSW from College Kid on Vimeo.

Yelawolf Live @ SXSN 2010 from Budge Rodriguez on Vimeo.

Pill x Killer Mike x SXSW from Motion Family on Vimeo.

24KMilkCrate x J.Cole @ URB SXSNext 2010 from Jan Ferrer on Vimeo. Broken Bells @ SXSW from NOW Magazine on Vimeo. Get Busy Committee My Little Razorblade live @ The Velveeta Room, Austin, TX March 17 2010 from Get Busy Committee on Vimeo. DJ Quik at Club Deville Austin, TX SXSW. from Elias the Barbarian on Vimeo. Bun B x Motion Family x SXSW from Motion Family on Vimeo. me="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> Bahamadia SXSW from gavin dahl on Vimeo.

Broken Bells (Danger Mouse + James Mercer) – @@@@ (Review)

Pizzo — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:59:33 +0000

The absence of Danger Mouse on this year’s Gorillaz LP was duly noted, with the end result sounding something closer to Damon Albarn’s last entry, The Good The Bad and The Queen. Still a quality release, it somehow lacked the diversity of the previous two records. Where was Danger this time around? Instead, working with The Shins’ lead vocalist and guitarist, James Mercer on a collaborative project called Broken Bells, coincidentally (or not) released the same day as Gorillaz Plastic Beach LP.

The sound of Broken Bells is less folky than that of The Shins, and instead takes more of a melodic, downtempo sound, coming off like a more organic Zero 7. The opening track and lead single “The High Road” is a sort of mooged out mellow progressive rock track, as Mercer lends an almost country twang not unlike that of Chris Isaak to this hypnotic head nodder. The album takes many turns, some of it’s best moments being it’s softest. “Your Head Is On Fire”, for instance is a breezy, mostly instrumental track that one might hear in the air in Twin Peaks, while “Trap Doors” is a mesmerizing exercise in repetition that soothes the soul. The crown jewel among this handful of tracks is “Citizen”, a heavily chilled, atmospheric track that plays in the open wilderness.

On the flipside of things, “The Ghost Inside” sounds eerily like something Danger might have been grooming for a future Gorillaz record, complete with Mercer doing his best Albarn impression. The brooding “Mongrel Heart” plays like a lonely ride down Lost Highway, while the post-new wave “The Mall and Misery” closes the LP, rounding out the album with a diverse palette of sounds.

The always illustrious Danger Mouse has come a long way since his humble beginnings as a creative mixtape deejay, adding yet another solid LP to a catalog of collaborators that includes MF Doom, Cee-Lo Green, Beck, David Lynch, Sparklehorse, and others. While he may be moving further and further away from his roots in hip-hop music, there’s no doubt the quality of his sound can be seen in whatever he does.

Broken Bells – "The High Road (Live On Letterman)"

Pizzo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:33:21 +0000

Danger Mouse is live on drums… This shit is really dope. Broken Bells LP review coming soon….Big up to theaudiopervjr for catching this.

NPR Getting Gangsta With The Full Album Streams: Today, Broken Bells.

Pizzo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:08:41 +0000

Yesterday we alerted you that National Public Radio was offering full streams of the Gorillaz Plastic Dreams LP, and today they release full audio streams for Danger Mouse and James Mercer’s (The Shins) collaborative LP, Broken Bells. Check it out here. (Warning: rapping not included).