Jun/100
Broken Bells.
Ever since 2006, and his release with Cee-Lo entitled St. Elsewhere, Danger Mouse has been blowing my mind. St. Elsewhere went platnum in 2006 and for good reason, that whole album was plastered with some dirty, heavy tracks. Even The Odd Couple of 2008 held ground to almost out do St. Elsewhere. In my opinion it was the writing, as Burton (Mouse), garnished some epic quotable lyrics like, "anyone that needs what they want and doesn't want what they need, I want nothing to do with. And to do what I want and to do what I please, is first off my to do list." Damn, that's solid. Gnarls Barkley's sound is definitely original and 
thanks to Cee-Lo's incredible vocals and Danger's chronic ability to lay out killer melody, baselines and sounds to meld together, you would be a fool not to be excited for anything that Danger comes out with next. Well, Danger Mouse is back, and quite well it seems. Broken Bells is his newest collaboration. James Mercer of the Shins has teamed up, and I'm impressed with the new album, eponymously named Broken Bells. Tracks like High Road and The Ghost Inside nail down how well Danger Mouse can meld his sounds with talent and great vocals coming from another fertile mind in Mercer. I highly recommend this album, its excellent for a SHINdig (no pun intended), complete with a patio, some beers and good people. Here is High Road, my favorite new track.
Oct/092
Is this really it, MJ?
Michael Jackson – arguably the most famous man in world history and easily the greatest entertainer of all time, died this past summer.
Oh, you’ve heard?
The aftermath and mourning of his passing included this past Tuesday’s release of “This Is It”, a documentary-style film that followed Jackson as he rehearsed in the weeks before what was going to be his curtain call - a string of 50 sold out concerts for over one million people, taking place in London’s O2 Theatre, beginning in July of this year.
Oct/093
A movie that will keep you up at night.
There is always something somewhat overbearing about the hype machine – the thing that makes mediocre sound like amazing and the ordinary extraordinary. The hype machine works and how? Simply by repeating the same thing over and over again, back and forth until we all want to spend the money to buy into the hype. Advertisements, commercial spots and various tweets are all vehicles of the hype machine – the thing that helped G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra make $100 million dollars at the box office and the same hype machine spawned a season of the Ultimate Fighter with a man named, yes, Kimbo Slice.
PH0T0ADAY.
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