1/8/10 News briefs: Blonde Redhead, SXSW, Monsters of Folk, Lightspeed Champion and Diplo + Gucci Mane
January 8th, 2010
Blonde Redhead have written an original score for a new documentary about Dungeons & Dragons. Yes, one of the greatest bands in the world have provided music for a film based on the geekiest craze of all time. The trailer for The Dungeon Masters says it all, but oddly enough, does not have any Blonde Redhead music in it. Note: It does, however, have some Guided By Voices.
SXSW has announced more of its line-up and yeah, no surprises, it’s pretty awesome. Newly added to March’s festivities are The xx, Neon Indian, Midlake, Woods, Apostle of Hustle, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Danielson, Javelin, Solange, The Smith Westerns and Toro Y Moi. Sweet…
Speaking of sweet, on Monday you’ll be able to download a new Gucci Mane mixtape produced by Diplo for free over at the Mad Decent blog. Diplo Presents: Free Gucci (Best of The Cold War Mixtapes) features Gucci spitting over remixes by the likes of Flying Lotus, Memory Tapes, Salem, Zomby and of course, Diplo himself.
Paying homage to the late King’s birthday (Elvis Presley would have been 75 today), Lightspeed Champion has covered Elvis’ “(You’re The) Devil In Disguise.” The leftfield UK popster went so far as to dress up like the King and cruise around Sunset Strip shaking his hips and such in a video for the song.
Despite what you might have heard, alt-folk supergroup Monsters of Folk (featuring M. Ward, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James)are not working on a new album. Word leaked today that Conor Oberst had tweeted news about a new MOF record, but a rep for the band has come out and denied there is anything new planned. Also, Conor Oberst apparently does not have a Twitter account. Glad that’s all cleared up.
Tags: Blonde Redhead, Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst, Diplo, Dungeons & Dragons, Elvis Presley, Gucci Mane, Lightspeed Champion, Mad Decent, Monsters of Folk, My Morning Jacket, sxsw
Posted on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 4:57 pm by Cam and is filed under News, The New Music.
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