Goodie Mob’s Big Gipp ventures out solo with his new Mr. Get Down mixtape. Help from Bruno Mars, 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg, Trinidad James, Scotty ATL and others.

1/2 of Goodie Mob, Cee-Lo and Gipp, unite for this track from Big Gipp’s upcoming Epic Records LP, Zagga.

This single from Goodie Mob’s Age Against The Machine gets rebranded as a Cee-Lo Green single, as they team with Funny Or Die for a new video for the track.

Cee-Lo Green recently revealed to Rolling Stone that he looks forward to “an onslaught of music this year”. He is currently trimming down his next solo LP, Girl Power, from “40 or 5 songs to about 13″, and also hopes to see a Gnarls Barkley LP by the end of the year, and possibly another Goodie Mob project.

“Technically and sonically, [I'm] working with new sounds,” he told RS. “I could be all artsy-fartsy describing it, but to me this is bare bones rock and roll; which at heart is who I feel like I am. I feel like I’m a rock artist. I don’t feel like I’m a pop artist. And I’m alt rock. I’m indie rock. I’m punk rock. Because it comes from the pots and pans. It’s a lot of me, but I’ve got multiple personalities.”

“I didn’t realize the importance of [a new Gnarls Barkley album] or the anticipation for it until recently,” he said. “I was going through an airport at about 5:45am on the way to Atlanta and a guy from TMZ asked me would I be working on another Gnarls. And I was like, ‘Yeah, next year.’ I was a little dismissive because I don’t want to get involved that early – but it just kind of went like wildfire. And I was like, ‘Wow, okay. People are still interested to see what we could do.’ And so am I. Gnarls Barkley is an alter ego and something like an out of body experience.”

As far as Goodie Mob is concerned, RS also reports that Cee-Lo and the crew have enough tracks for both a new album and this year’s re-release of Age Against The Machine.

“If I can release singles that coexist and don’t conflict with each other, then you’ll hear something new from Gnarls [this year] that will run concurrent with what I’m doing solo and with Goodie Mob,” he added. “Three totally different things.”

Peter Rosenberg’s The Process spotlights Goodie Mob. Sup with the Deadmau5 ears, Rosenberg?

So, this track was actually a Goodie Mob Age Against The Machine album track. Now it’s a Cee-Lo’s new single, as seen on The Voice.

From Age Against The Machine, available now.

The almighty Goodie Mob does an exclusive interview / listening event in Atlanta, GA with Maurice Garland, prior to the release of their new album, Age Against The Machine, available now.

It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years since the last Goodie Mob album, and fourteen years since the last Goodie Mob album featuring Cee-Lo Green. In truth, while that album, World Party received a lukewarm response, Cee-Lo would go on to create a successful solo career, while Goodie Mob would release it’s overlooked follow-up, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, the title a thinly veiled pot shot at Green.

While Cee-Lo has always been the frontman of the group, it’s hard to have a Goodie Mob LP without him, which is why the group’s disdain for him on that last album didn’t go over so well the audience. Yet with Cee-Lo carving out his own niche as a larger-than-life, center stage showman, his return to the group on their new LP, Age Against The Machine, finds him steering the ship.

It’s clear that Goodie Mob do not want to repeat themselves, as they have strayed away from the heavy, soulful southern sounds of their first two albums on Age Against The Machine. The new album finds them toying with different sounds and styles, incorporating everything from operatic background vocals (“Pinstripes”) to dubstep stabs (“Special Education”) into their work, for better or for worse.

That being said, they do completely defy convention and do present an unpredictable record with Age Against The Machine. The album opener, “State Of The Art” pulls from Hitchcock-era horror film soundtrack, while “Ghost Of Gloria Goodchild” is almost a disco driven, rock opera, led by Cee-Lo’s big, belted out vocals.

As stated before, Cee-Lo pilots this vehicle, yet his influence can be overbearing at times. In the past, Cee-Lo’s understated, soulful vocals worked perfectly on songs like “Soul Food”, but here he takes things to the post-Gnarls Barkley, solo career level. Songs like “White Power” and “Amy” find him applying these throwback styles to more taboo, racially-tinged subject matter, stuff that might not work on a solo album from the host of NBC’s The Voice. However Green’s grandiose sound isn’t quite the right fit for the group that made “Cell Therapy” either.

Nevertheless, there are some stand out moments here (“Nexperiance”, “Kolors”, “The Both Of Me”, to name a few), and it’s great to see the band back together. Not a lyric is wasted on Age Against The Machine, as this is an album packed with a socially conscious message. However its meshing of several different styles does give the record a disjointed feel, so whether it resonates with it’s audience remains to be seen.

Goodie Mob stopped by the SiriusXM studios for an exclusive performance for Hip Hop Nation and Backspin.

Peter Rosenberg meets with the Goodie Mob to speak on the creative process behind their new album, Age Against The Machine, which is available now.

Check out a full album stream of Goodie Mob’s new album, Age Against The Machine, now through August 26th, via Amazon.

Age Against The Machine hits August 27th.

From Age Against The Machine, due August 27th.

Goodie Mob spit some bars with Schoolboy Q, then speak on the status of Andre 3000 and Outkast in the interview segment.