pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

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When it gets cold and nasty its nice to find some new warm beats. Scratch Massive did the music for Parker Posey’s new indie film “Broken English”. I know what you are thinking….Parker Posey was in an indie film?!
Scratch Massive - Make it High [MP3]

Here’s another demo. The working title for this is Second Life. Feel free to comment. For those of you who’ve asked - to download these MP3s just right click and ’save as’. On a Mac control click and ’save as’.
Gang of Four - Second Life (rough demo) [MP3]

Having returned last night to the home base I logged on and suddenly found that I have to quickly switch perspective from the Euro-centric view I’ve had since November 8th back to a USA-centric view. One story that I missed while I was traveling that was covered by BrooklynVegan was about how Band of Horses [...]

I posted the first iteration of a song, ‘Password’ a few days ago. This here’s an improved version with better sound quality. Moving forward. Next week I will post demos of 3 other tracks - Second Life, Faking It and American Man.
Gang of Four - Password (Demo) [MP3]

Thanks to Good Weather For Airstrikes for news about a Girl Talk bootleg from a performance at Seattle’s Chop Suey.
Girl Talk - Whoomp Wit It, Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It [MP3]
Related Post: Girl Talk gets it done video

Anticon outfit, Why? are delivering a 1000 copies limited edition colored vinyl ep. It will be released November 20th in the U.S. by anticon., and by Tomlab in the EU. Both the U.S and European versions boast three exclusive B-sides. On the American 12-inch, side A features Dntel’s remix of the unreleased Alopecia track ‘By [...]

MIA dropped her Kala bomb on Portland tonight at the Roseland. We watched from the floor fearing the balcony mess to grab a beer or two. The 80’s infulence never sounded less cheesy. The Jimmy track started with the first 2 minutes of Blue Monday. Cue crowd madness……
I applaud MIA for sticking to her sound. [...]