The 54th Annual Grammy Awards are but days away! And, like we said , we'd sincerely love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing, professionally insightful, insider info Vegas-ready odds. But, again, we always seem to be dead wrong (you will rue the day you met us , Esperanza Spalding). So while we already told your our faves for the nine biggies , here are 11 more completely arbitrary, critical decisions on who should win some of our favorite sleeper categories. • Grammys '12: Who Should Win the Major Categories Best Rock Song Coldplay - "Every Teardrop ...

Die US-amerikanischen Indie-Folker The Shins veröffentlichen ein Video des Songs "September". Zu finden ist der Track auf der B-Seite ihrer Single "Simple Song", welche nächste Woche als 7-Inch-Vinyl erscheinen wird und bereits letzten Monat im Stream veröffentlicht wurde ( motor.de berichtete ). Nach mehrjähriger Pause ließ die Band um James Mercer wieder von sich hören und zeigten sofort, dass sie trotz langer Auszeit noch immer musikalische Akzente setzen können. "Simple Song" und "September" sind dabei die ersten Vorboten ihres am 16. März erscheinenden Albums "Port Of Morrow", das über Mercers eigenes Label Aural Apothecary. Der Clip zeigt verschiedene Abspielgeräte, auf welchen ...

LA-based duo Electric Guest are starting off the year right. There’s the debut of their new music video “American Daydream” directed by lead singer Asa Taccone’s brother Jorma (of The Lonely Island), the release of their new single “This Head I Hold,” and a debut album Mondo produced by Danger Mouse to be released on Downtown Records [...]

Disponible dès aujourd’hui, le nouvel EP This Head I Hold du groupe américain Electric Guest est une véritable pépite. Ce quatre titres produits par Danger Mouse est le premier single dont les morceaux sont extraits de leur premier album Mondo, à venir pour le 24 avril 2012 sur Downtown Records. Un single qui nous envoi [...]

India’s own Arjun Vagale just dropped his newest EP, Danger Mouse and it’s nothing short of a Tech-House bomb!  The EP is exactly what you would expect from the massive producer: dark, hypnotic and brilliant.  Arjun Vagale’s talent shines bright throughout the entire EP but I’ve taken a partcular liking to the title-track, Danger Mouse.... Continue + Comment

One listen through the Black Key’s seventh studio album El Camino will tell you a lot about where the they’re at in their careers. The album is 37 minutes and 42 seconds of catchy, well composed, highly produced, straight up good rock and roll. Since producer Danger Mouse first signed on for their fifth album [...]

Returning this year are familiar faces armed with a new collection of songs. Looking ahead, here are a selection of those to be most excited about. MAJOR LAZER “Now that people know what Major Lazer is we can skip a lot of the ground work,” beams the globe-trotting chameleonic don of dance Diplo, who makes up one-half of neo-dancehall outfit Major Lazer alongside fidget-house producer Switch. The dynamic duo dropped debut ‘Guns Don’t Kill People - Lazers Do’ in mid-2009, a storming collaborative frenzy that fused authentic Jamaican riddims with modern bass-heavy hip-hop. Its successor, the Philadelphian explains, is set ...

Back when I was casually growing my vinyl collection for no real reason, I bought a box of used records from a former friend who’d found them outside an evicted [...]

I always get a refreshing feeling whenever I discover good new music. It’s especially gratifying when that music is great. That’s the case with Los Angeles electro-soul duo Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton, better known as Electric Guest. Their music is super catchy, upbeat, and original; most likely due to the fact that Danger Mouse [...]

Jack White returns for his first project since the White Stipes broke up almost a year ago, with a country-soul single called “Love Interruption” — which you can stream below. Of course, White has been busy in the ensuing time, working with everyone from Alicia Keys to Danger Mouse to Tom Jones to Insane Clown Posse. But the forthcoming Blunderbuss [...]

I know nothing about Electric Guest. Word on the street is their debut album, titled Mondo, is produced by Danger Mouse. This is note-worthy for a handful of reasons, but generally because everything Danger Mouse touches turns to gold. He formed Gnarls Barkley. He formed Broken Bells. Remember that mashup album of Jay-Z’s The Black Album and The Beatles’ White Album? That was him too. He just knows how to put together hit records, whether or not they appeal to the mainstream masses. Anyways, check out his work with Electric Guest — sounds promising to me. [via Pigeons & Planes] … Continue ...

Over the last few years HT faves Wilco have launched their own music festival, started their own label, played innovative tours in their hometown of Chicago and even sold their own brand of coffee, but the one thing that they haven’t done, at least since 1999, is make a music video. That changed yesterday as Jeff Tweedy & Co.  released a new animated video for the tune Dawned On Me, but this isn’t your straight up clip. For their first video in over a decade the band teamed up with the folks at King Features  for an animated video ...

I missed this video when it premiered earlier this month, but it’s so excellent that I had to post it. It’s directed by Chris Milk, who’s previous works includes groundbreaking interactive videos like Fire">Arcade Fire’s “The Wilderness Downtown” and Rome’s “3 Dreams of Black“. This video, also for Danger Mouse project Rome, features a mesmerizing [...]

Norah Jones is dangerous! She will release Little Broken Hearts via Blue Note/EMI this spring. It is collaboration with the producer and musician Danger Mouse. The two first worked together when Danger Mouse called upon Jones to contribute vocals to his acclaimed 2011 album Rome, and their

The enigma that is Norah Jones continues to melt even the coldest hearts. If her punk leanings (in the outfit El Madmo) or country twangs (as a contributing member of The Little Willies) haven’t won you or your significant other over, then perhaps her upcoming fifth album, Little Broken Hearts, will do the trick. Why, [...]