Daily Dots Daily Dots: Rick Rubin, Gogol Bordello, Gorillaz, Kanye, Dead Weather, Asher Roth

March 23, 2010 - 4:21 pm

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Today’s bloggin best…

- Rick Rubin is a Gogol Bordello fan. Billboard

- DJ Intervention is here to help. Funny Or Die

- Indie rocker are the new baby boomers. Slate

- Kanye’s gonna make hip-hop music again. Hypetrak

- New Dead Weather video, “Die By The Drop.” Pitchfork

- Asher Roth has a new mixtape. URB

- Gorillaz are on the cover of Complex. Complex

Daily Dots Daily Dots: Jay-Z and Jack White, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Gucci Mane, Little Boots

March 17, 2010 - 4:41 pm

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Today’s bloggin best…

- You calling Gucci Mane fat? Village Voice

- New video for David Byrne-Fatboy Slim collaboration. Stereogum

- Jay-Z hit the studio with Jack White. SOHH

- Little Boots canceled a bunch of US shows. NME

- It’s gonna be a quiet weekend since all the bloggers are at SXSW. Billboard

Film The White Stripes Unveil “Under Bright White Northern Lights” Film In Vintage Style

March 10, 2010 - 5:03 pm

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You can bet Jack White doesn’t like music blogs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the proudly retro guitarist-vocalist of The White Stripes doesn’t dig on YouTube either. So it would probably please him to no end that when he and partner Meg White played a series of off-the-cuff public shows in Canada (a bowling alley is Saskatoon, a YMCA in Toronto, a city bus in Winnipeg) during the band’s 2007 tour, this sort of obvious blog fodder flew under the radar of all but the most obsessive web citizens. Read the full story