Broken Bells - the group composed of The Shins singer, James Mercer, and producer extraordinaire Brian Burton (better known as Danger Mouse) - has released an album that feels a lot like a guest who ...

After the Disco is propelled by either chugging and staccato synthetic beats and topped off with Mercer’s light, pitched-high vocals which occasionally, as when multi-tracked on “Holding on For Life”, ...

[VINTAGE POP] By the fourth song on Broken Bellsâ sophomore album, After the Disco, you get the sense that, at some point during the recording process, Brian â Danger Mouseâ Burton told his ...

Though the rock band format is hardly the most relevant thing in popular music these days, there is something to be said for the collaborative spirit that arises from a group of musicians with strong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The post Broken Bells Lift Off and Head Into the Blue appeared first on Consequence. In between their many projects, Mercer and ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Gorillaz may have originated as a way for Damon Albarn to sidestep the limelight, but on the cartoon group's third album, "Plastic Beach," he very much takes center stage.

Broken Bells is James Mercer, frontman from the Shins, and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton), half of Gnarls Barkley. Both are scholars of retro pop, and their collaboration reinforces that ...

The eight years that have passed since After the Disco shouldn’t be categorized as a hiatus, because that would imply Mercer and Burton took a voluntary absence from the work. But in that gap, along ...

Broken Bells has set an Oct. 7 release date for its third album, Into the Blue, and released what’s being described as the project’s first official single, “Saturdays.” The track is accompanied by a ...

Broken Bells (the collaboration between James Mercer of The Shins and producer Danger Mouse, aka Brian Joseph Burton) have announced the release of a new album, Into the Blue. They have also shared a ...

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