DrownedInSound — The 38th weekly instalment in our content-related Spotify playlist, featuring Big Star, White Stripes, Jonna Lee, Broken Bells, Shy Child, White Hinterland and MANY MORE.
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Rolling Stone — Broken Bells made a lot of noise the first day of the SXSW Music Festival with their “pop-up” show at a parking garage on Red River Street in downtown Austin. It took place at 1:00 pm and was packed to capacity. That trend continued at their Wedn... more info
Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Just one week after the release of their self-titled debut, indie rockers
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performed the premiere show of AOL's Spinner.com Pop-Up Series at SXSW before a small, intimate daytime crowd in a downtown parking g... more info
MTV.com News — Gorillaz' Plastic Beach debuts at #2.By Gil Kaufman
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Battle of the Sexes will lead a parade of new faces in the Billboard 200 top 10 next week, easily leading the chart thanks to sales of 137,000. Th... more info
Quick Before It Melts — The idea of Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton and Shins singer James Mercer collaborating as Broken Bells made me rise an eyebrow at first, but the project fell off my radar in the gap between announcement and the delivery of any notable product. I... more info
Pitchfork — It seems like only yesterday we were enjoying the Austin sun while taking in too much BBQ and trying to catch dozens (hundreds?) of the world's finest and/or most breathlessly hyped new bands. But that was an entire year ago. Which can only mean one ... more info
Guardian Music — ICA, LondonJames Mercer and Brian Burton are spectacularly unlikely bedfellows. Mercer is the singer and guitarist of wistful US West Coast jangle-rockers the Shins, while Burton, under his alter ego of Danger Mouse, is an inspired hip-hop producer a... more info
Stereogum — Broken Bells started their promotional tour for their self-titled debut a little less than a month ago, and it’ll wrap up at SXSW this weekend, when the supergroup-of-sorts will play about five sets during the festival. Photographer Andrew Youssef ... more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — Nearly 30-minutes into an hour-long set, and in the midst of a rather ornate keyboard-led number, Broken Bells lead singer James Mercer tried to put a naive lover in her place.
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