mar-test
daily dos
tue 2/5/2008
British pop star Lily Allen and electronic musician Ed Simons of The Chemical Brothers have broken up after dating for three months. The 22-year-old Allen suffered a miscarriage last month.
The Chemical Brothers vs. Daft Punk
versus
wed 9/26/2007
| name | The Chemical Brothers. | Daft Punk. |
| members | Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. | Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. |
| home base | London, England. | Paris, France. |
| formed in | 1992. | 1993. |
| style | Psychedelia, Techno and Electrorock. | Funk, House and Electropop. |
| the vibe | Geeky upper-class Brits. | Robotic mystery men. |
| formerly known as | The Dust Brothers. (Not them.) | Darlin'. |
| sounds like | New Order, Heaven 17 and Public Enemy. | Kraftwerk, George Clinton and Giorgio Moroder. |
| breakthrough single | Block Rockin' Beats. | Da Funk. |
| live | Strobe lights and lasers. | A giant laser pyramid. |
| crossover to hip hop | Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest guests on "Galvanize." | Power Kanye West's Stronger. |
| inspired | Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco and LCD Soundsystem. | Justice, MSTRKRFT and Boys Noize. |
| most recent release | We Are the Night. | Human After All. |
| the critics | Popmatters: "For those who came of age in recent years, long after the late ‘90s heyday of popular electronic music, it may be hard to understand just how important... the Chemical Brothers once were. There was once a time when the worlds of dance music and rock & roll had never intersected." | Stylus magazine: "Daft Punk now possess what is probably one of the most contentious discographies for such a widely lauded and still working act. It’s taken them four years each to craft their new albums, and each time fans are delighted and horrified in seemingly equal measures." |
| webprops | 158,906 friends on official MySpace. | 283,988 friends on official MySpace. |
| best video moment | Re-dubbing a kung-fu movie in Get Yourself High. | Choreographing mummies and robots in Around the World. |
Toño Rosario, Rooney, Pharoahe Monch, The Chemical Brothers and Spoon.
the music press
tue 7/17/2007
- Merengue master Toño Rosario is back with ¡A Tu Gusto!, a "versatile" album with vocals that "hold as much boldness as sly mischief,” according to Billboard.com. Terra.com says Rosario “injects new energy” into his merengue mix.
- L.A. power-poppers Rooney release their second major label effort, Calling The World. Entertainment Weekly thinks "Calling" contains the right amount of cheese: “sometimes your musical diet can use a little extra dairy.” Emo website Absolutepunk.net calls Rooney the second coming: “Rooney have put together 12 down-to-earth yet undeniably catchy cuts that send the hips shaking and the hearts breaking.”
- Nearly 10 years after releasing his debut, MC, producer and occasional Diddy ghostwriter Pharoahe Monch finally releases Desire, the long-awaited follow up to Internal Affairs. The Village Voice welcomes Monch’s ability to “slice seemingly superfluous syllables … displaying an insatiable appetite for wordplay.” Popmatters is equally impressed, declaring the New York native “an artist of the highest order, a pioneer.”
- British electronica duo The Chemical Brothers deliver their sixth studio album We Are The Night. “Long freed from the constraints of dance scene fashion, [The Chemical Brothers] now gambol in the same playful, psychedelic realm as The Flaming Lips or Super Furry Animals,” opines the U.K.'s Uncut Magazine. Across the pond, Spin.com laments that the duo "smear[s] psychedelic synth cheese and stereophonic airplane noises over chewy grooves that veer closer and closer to straight disco.”
- Austin alterna-rock darlings Spoon appear to have hit their artistic peak with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. The Onion’s AV Club gives it a B+ for the “handful of songs as good as any in the Spoon catalog—which, slipshod presentation aside, makes them as good as any indie-rock being made today.” Music Ohm gives them four out of five stars, as many songs in the new album “reach back in time and take their cues from the likes of The Kinks and The Beatles.”
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