Broken Bells: Collaboration with Frontman of the Shins, James Mercer
I first heard about Danger Mouse when my roommate at the time was emphatically complimenting this Hip Hop album he had heard, DangerDoom. Listening to it, I didn't care too much for the rap style of MF Doom, but the music and beats were amazing. I also knew that he illegally combined Jay-Z's rapping to the Beatles The White Album to create The Grey Album but I haven't checked it out yet. Then Gnarls Barkley hit the scene in 2006 releasing the huge hit, Crazy, which I remember Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal covering when they were touring that year. Gnarls Barkley is composed of Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green.
Recently, under copyright litigation again, Danger Mouse teamed up with Sparklehorse and released one of my favorite albums of 2009, Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse present: Dark Night of the Soul. But since Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse didn't get the rights to these songs from the record label EMI, they were not permitted to release the album. Instead, they released the album with a blank CD-R and encouraged people to illegally download it themselves. Any group that is brave enough to go against these Middleman record label thugs is definitely high in my books. The list of artists that contributed to this album include James Mercer from The Shins, Black Francis, Iggy Pop, The Flaming Lips and the recently deceased Vic Chesnutt. I highly recommend you "acquire" this album.
Now I have great news that I just found out about. Dangermouse is teaming up with James Mercer again and releasing a new album under the name, Broken Bells. Their first single has already made an impact on music blogs. The link for it is HERE.
Whatever this guys touches seems to turn into gold, so I'm definitely looking forward to this new album.
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Hi BBS,
On behalf of Columbia Records, Monotone and Broken Bells, many thanks for plugging "Broken Bells" / the artists’ eponymous album on your site (street date 9th March) ... thanks, also, on behalf of the label, management and artists for not posting any pirate links to unreleased (studio) material and, if you / your readers want good quality, non-pirated, preview tracks, then full length versions of "The High Road" (as already featured by you) and "Vaporize" are available for fans and bloggers to link to / post / host etc at www.brokenbells.com ... .. for further details of the new album, special pre-orders, on-line promotions, videos and 2010 shows, check-out the official site, as well as the artists’ MySpace at www.myspace.com/brokenbells and YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/brokenbells ... .. and keep an eye on these official sources for details of further news, preview material and on-line promotions.
Thanks again for your plug.
Regards & Season’s Greetings,
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