The prolific post-punks Parquet Courts recently sent postcards to fans advertising the URL wideawake.am, where an animated alarm clock ticked down the minutes until 10 a.m. this morning and the announcement of the band’s sixth studio album, Wide Awake!, out May 18 from Rough Trade. More
Parquet Courts have announced a new album, Wide Awake! It’s out May 18 via Rough Trade. They’ve also shared the lyric video for a new song called “Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience.” The visual features artwork from guitarist/singer Andrew Savage. Check it out below; scroll down for the LP’s full tracklist. Wide Awake! was written by Savage and Austin Brown, and produced by Danger Mouse. “I personally liked the fact that I was writing a record that indebted…
MF DOOM and Danger Mouse released The Mouse and the Mask, their one-off album as Danger Doom, 12 years ago. More
Iggy Pop and Danger Mouse collaborated on “Gold,” a new song featured in the upcoming Matthew McConaughey drama about a geologist searching for gold in Indonesia. Pop and Mouse co-wrote the track with director Stephan Gaghan and composer Daniel Pemberton. They previously worked together on Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s 2010 album, Dark Night of the Soul.
“This beautiful and unpredictable film spoke to me of violence, desire, destiny, lust and the inescapable twists of fate,” Pop said in a statement. “The actors and the story spun a web of excitement that left me spent and breathless, so I tried to perform the vocal with that feeling…