NME — Band Of Skulls blow out their amps during raucous set more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Just one week after the release of their self-titled debut, indie rockers Broken Bells [ tickets ] 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 Ludacris Photo: Getty Images Ludacris' 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. ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — 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. "You got me wrong," he sang during the chorus... more info

Culture Bully — Audio & video coverage of Broken Bells' performance of the track "The Ghost Inside" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. more info