Six years after a chance meeting led to an agreement to work together, Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) and James Mercer (The Shins) have delivered a sumpt...
Once he started working with cats like Beck and The Rapture, the idea of working with Danger Mouse wasn’t as rare and dangerous as it had been when Da...
In 2004 Shins frontman James Mercer met Brian Burton, who produced the second Gorillaz album and Beck’s Modern Guilt. They decided to collaborate on a...
At a Danish music festival in 2004 a fascinating chat occurred between Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton) and James Mercer of The Shins. On finding out t...
A few years ago, two of the hottest artists out there wereDanger Mouse & James Mercer. The former burst onto the scene in 2004 with The Gray Album, hi...
James Mercer (lead singer of The Shins) and Brian Burton (also known as producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse and half of Gnarls Barkley) have teamed u...
As the decade of side projects comes to a close, we are given one more offbeat side project to consider, and that is the unlikely marriage between the...
Once he started working with cats like Beck and The Rapture, the idea of working with Danger Mouse wasn’t as rare and dangerous as it had been when Da...
When word broke that maverick producer Brian Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse) and indie pop darling James Mercer of the Shins were working on a project to...
Oh, did I wake you I didn't mean to rustle you out of yourslumber, as it seems as though you must have been listening to the new BrokenBells album. U...
Like Them Crooked Vultures before them come Broken Bells. Another ‘super group’, or rather a ‘super duo’, from the US made up of James Mercer of Shin...
On the one hand, Broken Bells is a fairly academic exercise in straightforward excellence. On the other, it's intriguing because it's an experiment, o...
If a bell is broken, is it still a bell I am plagued by thoughts such as these. It reminds me of the Wire album title, A Bell is a Cup...Until It Is ...
Wincing the Night Away, where songs like Sea Legs were ambitious, but not quite at home on a Shins record. Broken Bells is where Mercer, with Burton’s...
Zero 7, the duo draws little from their prior discographies. In fact, Danger Mouse uses this opportunity to delve into more atmospheric and electroni...
