wax&wires

“They call me Hova, that’s not my name!”

Discovery is a side project from members of Vampire Weekend & Ra Ra Riot. I’m not the biggest fan of either of those two bands, but have really dug the programming in the new group.

Danger Mouse, most notorious for being half of the Gnarls Barkley duo, is in the midst of a legal dispute with EMI prompting him to release the album artwork for his new album with a blank CD-R in lieu of the album itself.

Andy Baio is working on a really cool idea: to recreate Miles Davis’ classic album, Kind of Blue, with chip sounds.

Walls is Apparat’s 2007 release, breaking away from his dance floor roots and growing to be “more interested in sounds than beats” by incorporating strings, various live percussion, and dropping the 4-on-the-floor for a more laid-back trip-hop vibe.

Justin Vernon, better known as the leader of Bon Iver, joined his former high school jazz band on Sunday night for a special show to raise money for the group’s trip to Essential Ellington — a competition hosted annually by Wynton Marsalis.

As much of an odd paring as it initially sounds, Taylor Hanson, Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick, Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne and ex Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha make up Tinted Windows.

Faultline crosses several genre lines, mixing breakbeat electronic with the raw emotion found in more traditional pop music. It doesn’t hurt to have Chris Martin, Michael Stipe, and Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips) contributing either.

Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Green, Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump, Panic At The Disco’s Brendon Urie, Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy and Janelle Monae have banded together under the Coke brand to form Open Happiness.

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N.A.S.A. exists as a collaborative between DJ’s Squeak E. Clean and Brazil’s DJ Zegan, from North America and South America respectively (hence the name, N.A.S.A.). From there, the two dance club aficionados put together a dream team of artists to work with including George Clinton, John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers), [...]

I first heard M83 in a Pontiac commercial several years ago, featuring Don’t Save Us From The Flames. Once I saw the ad on TV, I immediately went to my computer to hunt down the song. It was everything I loved about epic shoegazer rock and electronic music rolled into one. I just heard the [...]