Gnarls Barkley

Portugal. the Man and Danger Mouse's Not-So-"Evil" Friendship

When word started getting around about Portugal. the Man's next record, singer John Gourley put it out there that they'd be working with Brian Joseph Burton, aka Danger Mouse--of Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz and The Grey Album fame--and that the band was toying with the idea of writing "their" Dark Side ... More >>

Should My Small Town Band Move To New York?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Adele Achieves the Crossover Hat Trick

​It wasn't all that surprising when Billboard crowned Adele's 21 as the top-selling album of the first six months of the year—the next-highest seller, Lady Gaga's Born This Way, is still trailing it by nearly a million copies. The British diva missed out on having the biggest-selling dig ... More >>

"The Voice" Closes Its Eyes And Takes On "American Idol"

​So: The Voice. The big challenge. American Idol has been the dominant ratings force in American TV for a full decade now, but none of the other networks has really managed to do much with that show's format, which seems like a relatively easy thing to steal. (Or they haven't made a big singin ... More >>

Cee Lo Green and the Year of "Fuck You"

Summing up 2010 in two little words

The Constellations

The Fearless Cee Lo Green

Will The Lady Killer and 'Fuck You' finally turn him into a solo superstar?

The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

Bruno Mars Is Not Soft

2010's hottest guest star seeks marquee status, less wimpiness

Camu Tao Gets His Due

The departed rapper's King of Hearts is hard to hear and harder to ignore

Download Camu Tao's Elvis Costello-Borrowing "Be a Big Girl" (SOTC Premiere)

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. ​Before losing a battle with lung cancer in May of 2008, Brooklyn-via-Ohio MC Camu Tao spent nearly a decade as one of the most underrated rappers in the indie underground. The depth of his talents w ... More >>

Broken Bells

Media Moves: Gawker's New Full-Timer, the NY Observer's New Media Mob(ster), Our New Weekend Guy

​"Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade," noted a young Notorious B.I.G. on his way to the top of the rap game, before he was brutally murdered in the climax of a rap war that left both him and his west coast equivalent, Tupac Shakur, dead. Hopefully that won't happen in this case! As ... More >>

Broken Bells, The Collaboration Between Danger Mouse and the Shins' James Mercer, Is For Lovers in New York

Broken Bells Music Hall of Williamsburg Wednesday, March 10 The Shins are a band girlfriends take boyfriends to see. Gnarls Barkley are a band boyfriends take girlfriends to see. So it's no wonder that the crossover between the two turns out to be couples. Lots of them. Couples rubbing each other ... More >>

The Trials of Kid Sister

Her debut album is finally out. No more delays. Seriously.

Interview: Southerngold DJ Terry Urban Responds to Downtown Records' Santigold Cease and Desist

"I'm not trying to burn bridges. I did the mixtape because I absolutely adore Santi." Southerngold, the ace Santigold/Southern rap remix record that sprang loose on the internet last week, has caused its creator, Brooklyn DJ Terry Urban, no end of trouble. Last Monday, as Urban was on the verge o ... More >>

Meet Southerngold, the Santigold/Southern Rap Mixtape Downtown Records Doesn't Want You to Hear

Two parallel but related developments emerging from the existence of Southerngold, the ace Santigold/southern rap mash-up mixtape created by Brooklyn's Terry Urban. The first is a scandal: on the eve of Southerngold's "release"--i.e., Monday night, when Urban was sitting at his desk in Brooklyn on t ... More >>

The Lousy Onstage Pickup Line Hall of Fame Hereby Inducts Mickey Factz

Actual seduction not depicted, but you should be grateful, trust me. If you've not had the pleasure of one of the Roots' jam sessions at Highline Ballroom, know first of all that "jam" is taken very literally: They're more or less just fucking around, learning how to play Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" ... More >>

Asher Roth, Upper-Middle-Class and Rising

Say hello to the white (but not white-trash) rapper du jour

Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin & Buddy Miller

Animal Collective Tune In, Drop Out, Grow Up

On the radical serenity/serene radicalism of Merriweather Post Pavilion

Another Take on Obamamania

Puss-Coital Dirty Pop-Rappers Menya Play CMJ, Still Work That Christgau Professor Connection

Beck Goes All Al Gore on Us

Carter III Discourse: Yeast Infections or Geese Erections?

The Heavy and the Gay Blades Tonight at Rehab, Tomorrow at Union Pool

Gnarls Barkley at the Highline April 10

First Impressions of the Raconteurs' Consolers of the Lonely

Gnarls Barkley: Of Mice and Men

More Looney Tunes noir and psychiatrist's-couch pathos from Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo

Pazz & Jop: 2006's Top 25 Albums

Breihan vs. Harvilla: Does Indie-Rock Need Rhythm?

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

Figuring Out Kanye West's Graduation

Ali & Gipp's Kinfolk

Mall-stomping trash talk, right on time

Live: Nelly Furtado Can't Dance

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

P&J #1 Single

Noise from the Front

Pazz & Jop Special for the week of February 7-13, 2007

Politics, Provocations, Eulogies

Accepting the things we cannot change and raising hell about the rest

Ancient Maneaters of the Future

The year's best-selling album made mass culture sound vapid; the year's hottest auteur made vapidity sound transcendent

Insanity and Other Mutations

Hiphop's future is cloudier, but not necessarily darker

The Sheep Take a Buffalo Stance

Critics' polls have evolved and arguably withered lately, but at least we didn't vote for Timbuk 3

What a Year That Was

NYC nightlife luminaries fondly recall what they can still remember from 2006

Is This It?

The Strokes and Kanye West entreat the bold-faced masses. Bemused vulgarity ensues.

Pop Will Please Itself

The Rapture can't quite afford Timbaland, but their bright, sharp pop triumphs anyway

White People Love Gnarls Barkley

Wish You'd Been There

How the boldfaced and the beautiful spent their summer vacations

Lush Life

Downward-spiral act moves woozily uptown

Mouse & Masque

Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse elate, punk the masses