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Music TPC Takeover: 02 – Jimmy Eat World – “Sweetness”

August 25, 2011 - 3:11 pm

Continuing right along with Tokyo Police Club’s ChinaShop Takeover where they bring you 10 covers from 10 years (of the 2000′s) over the course of 10 days (kind of a big undertaking considering the logistics), but hulled up in Red Bull Studios and steadfast on their mission, they will not be stopped or distracted… Day 2 of the challenge brings us TCP’s rendition of Jimmy Eat World’s “Sweetness” (2002) and all the #party that goes along with it. Enjoy and stay tuned for more surprises as the 10 covers /10 years in 10 days project continues.

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Featured Gallery Music The Sound of Sweeney

by Nicole Pajer and Sidney Bensimon

August 18, 2011 - 10:27 am

It was last September when we last checked in with Tutu Sweeney and his talented sidekicks, The Brothers Band, as they record ed tracks at Red Bull Studios for his debut album. Fast forward to today and Tutu is happy to report that the record is finally complete and ready to shop to labels – a task which will occupy his every waking moment upon returning from an upcoming East Coast tour with Aloe Blacc and the Grand Scheme. While video chatting with his brother Te’Amir in Switzerland, Tutu showcased his multitasking skills by simultaneously answering interview questions over the phone.

Tutu gives us an insider look at tracks off the new album and discusses his latest show at the Santa Monica Pier, growing up near the chaos of Venice Beach, and almost getting his arm cut off alongside “The Rock” in The Scorpion King.

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Featured interview Music The Deftones’ Chino and Far’s Shaun Lopez Form CROSSES

by Jeff Nau and Sidney Bensimon

August 8, 2011 - 5:23 pm

For the past few months, if you tried to dig up any information on Crosses — Chino Moreno’s latest project with Far guitarist Shaun Lopez and a mysterious Clint Eastwood-type guitar-slinger named Chuck – you’d find next to nothing. There might be a reason for that: Crosses isn’t Deftones-ish at all. And it ain’t really even remotely Far-esque. It’s an unorthodox but heady mix of trip-hop, jazz, and some touches of that Northern California brand of hard rock they helped pioneer.

But days ago Chino dropped five free downloads of the Crosses project onto his Facebook page. Here’s an interview we got with the guys last month, when the album was still being mixed in Red Bull Studios.

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Featured Music 10 Covers / 10 Days: Tokyo Police Club

by Nicole Pajer

August 8, 2011 - 4:09 pm

Canadian quartet Tokyo Police Club have announced an ambitious and riotous project, recording 10 cover songs from the years 2001-2010 over the course of 10 days. The project will begin at 12pm PST on Tuesday, August 23 at Red Bull Studios Los Angeles when the band enters the studio to rehearse and record a cover song over the next 10 hours, to be premiered the following morning at, 10am PST right here on ChinaShop starting Wednesday, August 24. The final song will be premiered on Saturday, September 3.

Starting next Monday, August 15, three potential songs from each year, between 2001-2010, will be revealed via Polaroid with the final track revealed each night prior to recording. The band will be creating daily Polaroid photo diaries and filming the entire recording process. In addition, each song will have unique artwork created from a Polaroid image shot that day in the studio.

Exclusive media partners include Alternative Press, ARTIST Direct, Entertainment Weekly, FILTER, Mashable, The Onion AV Club, Spinner. At 11am EST the song will be made available via all partner sites. Livestream.com will be offering fans a behind-the-scenes look into the recording process each day between 7pm-8pm PST.

Stay tuned for additional details in the coming weeks on the packaging of all 10-songs with commemorative pieces from the project.

While Tokyo Police Club was busy prepping for the event, singer David Monks spared a few moments to jump on the phone to provide us with some insider info on what we can expect from “10 Covers in 10 Days.”

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Music Party Supplies

by Nicole Pajer and Lisa Johnson

August 2, 2011 - 10:40 am

Party Supplies is a one-man project by songwriter/remixer/producer, Justin Nealis. The innovative music maker employs the use of an MPC 1000 drum machine, loops, and samples to create his experimental sound. Prior to dabbling with original material, Nealis began to make a name for himself with several Internet success remixes for high profile acts like Fitz and the Tantrums and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Not a singer by nature, Nealis recorded a bunch of love songs out of his Brooklyn apartment studio but sat on them for a while, admitting the vocals were not strong enough to be released. A 12-song zip file of Nealis’s love songs eventually ended up in the hands of Fools Gold who, after giving the demos a listen, saw potential and instantly decided to take a chance on the project. After years of developing his material, Nealis is finally living out his dream of professionally recording his songs and fine-tuning his vocals.

During a break in recording at Red Bull Studios, Nealis gave ChinaShop the rundown on Party Supplies.

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Featured Music Exclusive Download: Thrice “Yellow Belly”

by Shop Keeper

July 20, 2011 - 2:37 am

Thrice‘s new album Major/Minor will be released everywhere September 20, 2011 via Vagrant Records… but ChinaShop has a special exclusive treat for all you rabid fans hungry for new music from this seminal band.

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Music Into the Darkness: Mansions On The Moon

by Mike Bucher

June 16, 2011 - 1:07 pm

Is this June gloom getting you down? Did you have your coffee yet? Have you heard the new Mansions on the Moon? Well, I can’t change the weather and I ain’t getting you coffee, but what I can and will do is serve you up a dose of melancholy magic courtesy of Mansions on the Moon.

This starbound group, founded a little over a year ago, have since co-signed with Pharell, and collaborated with Diplo, Mac Miller and Chiddy Bang’s Xaphoon Jones to name a few.

And now Mansions On The Moon have released “Darkness” off their upcoming debut Lightyears.

So, brew yourself a cup, kick up your feet and soak up the “Darkness.” Oh, and check out the fellas in action, writing and recording this catchy tune at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica.

Mansions on the Moon – Darkness

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Gallery Music Moneybrother: Making Change

by Dustin Downing

June 15, 2011 - 5:05 pm

Fresh from the makers of IKEA, H&M, and surströmming (fermented Baltic herring), please allow me to introduce to you, Moneybrother, Sweden’s Grammy award winning version of “The Boss” (with a lil’ ABBA singing backup). “Well, I really worked on a name for my solo work that sounded cool. Moneybrother, sounded cool when I said it,” provides the accented Mr. Anders Wendin a.k.a Moneybrother. This straight shooter is no stranger to the game even though you might not recognize his name in Swedish.

The Grammy strapped to his hip is thanks to his first solo record Blood Panic in 2003 after leaving pop/ska band Monster. 2009’s Real Control, saw his first full length, English only, album to be released on our fair shores. Which he has regularly been supporting with US tours for names the like of Bedouin Soundclash and most recently Celtic punkers Flogging Molly. Tours partly financed by his buying of Martin guitars on Craigslist in the US and flipping them for a “plane ticket or two” thanks to the nonsensical value of the US dollar in Scandinavia.

I caught up with Moneybrother at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica where he is recording part of his globetrotting next album and watching a lot of soccer…

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Gallery Music Rapid Fire Delivery: Machine Gun Kelly

by Dustin Downing

June 14, 2011 - 10:11 am

“It’s that rapid fire delivery style of mine,” spits Cleveland, Ohio’s hometown hustler Machine Gun Kelly when queried about the correlation of monikers between himself and the machine gun toting prohibition gangster of lore. “Like him, I got machine guns too (large ones tattooed on both calves) and I say f*ck a lot.” Fair enough, but does he have the ammunition to back it up?

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Gallery Music Electrical Tropical : Bomba Estéreo

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon

June 2, 2011 - 10:31 am

Colombia’s own Bomba Estéreo rocked a live session inside Red Bull Studios on Thursday, March 26th. Before jumping on a plane and heading back to their hometown, guitarist Julian Salazar joined us in the greenroom to dish about the latest North American tour. In an exclusive interview with ChinaShop Julian discusses American TV shows, surviving gigs in small town Ohio, and road tripping across the United States.

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