In the wake of a recent lunch date with estranged… More »
During last week’s discussion of Marmite artists–those artists that are so divisive, they force people to take sides, with no one left in the middle–Idolator commenter moomintroll wondered if we shouldn’t try and find more ways to classify popular bands through their analogues to various condiments. Since we figured the safe space in the fridge inhabited by your ketchups, your mustards, and your molding bottles of Hidden Valley Ranch was as good a way to make sense of the current musical landscape as any, we invited her to flesh out her theory for us. It’s after the jump!
BBC’s Electric Proms feature a number of Britain’s hottest acts in various contexts, but the likely highlight is Damon Albarn’s Africa Exprez, a collaboration between African pop stars and Brits like Johnny Marr and Hard-Fi. Clearly, Albarn’s dedicated to the music of Africa, releasing quite a bit of it through his Honest Jon’s label and including Tony Allen in his The Good, The Bad, And The Queen project. But is a jam session between Baaba Maal and a guy from Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly the best way to expose a nation to the music of a continent?
Gorilla Damon Albarn has a new album planned for a July release. No word on what the project will be named, but there will definitely be a 100-person Chinese choir present and the title will likely feature the word “monkey.” More »
Gorilla Damon Albarn has a new album planned for a July release. No word on what the project will be named, but there will definitely be a 100-person Chinese choir present and the title will likely feature the word “monkey.” More »
Gorilla Damon Albarn has a new album planned for a July release. No word on what the project will be named, but there will definitely be a 100-person Chinese choir present and the title will likely feature the word “monkey.” More »
Rumors suggest that the reason the Pet Shop Boys have been blocked by Damon “I Wrote An Opera, So Nyeah” Albarn from including their “Boys and Girls” remix on a forthcoming collection is because Albarn thinks it sounds too much like the PSBs–which is kind of the point of a remix, isn’t it?–and… More »
In case you won’t be in the UK on Oct. 30, here’s “Herculean” by Damon Albarn’s supergroup side project The Good The Bad And The Queen. (The single containing “Herculean” will be both released and deleted on that day.) More »
