The Chemical Brothers

There have been three times I have seriously hurt my eardrums, two of them being after Chemical Brothers shows. The DJ duo will release their first best of collection Brotherhood on September 2nd. Not that it's long over due or anything (13 years and 9 million record sold). The double-disc include 13 classic Chem Bro tunes, the new digital single "Midnight Madness" and the newbie "Keep My Composure" with Baltimore's Spank Rock. The second album of Brotherhood is made up o... MORE

Imagine going to a festival and seeing a sign like this hanging up next to the stage: "While we are not at this stage linking the death to the misuse of drugs, intelligence sources, police and security operators have identified and arrested a number of drug dealers within the event." That's what happened at the DJ and electronica heavy Gatecrasher festival over the past weekend. Held in Northhampton, England the festival was a washout this year forcing acts like Chem... MORE

  but the Devil ( aka Copy Machine) revealed all.... : -)

Back in my younger days, when I was going out to the clubs a bit more, The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole was on heavy rotation in the places I frequented.  This was fine, as it is one of the greatest electronic albums of all time.  While songs like "Setting Sun" and "Block Rockin' Beats" garneres all the attention, the rest of the album was just as good, and in some cases bette.r  My pick for best song on that album is this one, "Electrobank."  Not only does it kick... MORE

Today, I bought something from iTunes for the very first time, even though I don't own an iPod. You see, I received an e-mail letting me know that The Chemical Brothers released the collection B-Sides Volume 1 exclusively on iTunes. As a longtime fan of the duo, I definitely wanted to hear it. I found it on iTunes and discovered that it was in iTunes Plus format, meaning that I didn't need an iPod to play it. That lead me to buy the album and promptly load it on my C... MORE

Yet another big music festival lineup is announced for the UK massive. This time it's the Gatecrasher festival in Northamptonshire May 24-25th. Just look at this all-star lineup: Justice Digitalism Paul Oakenfold The Prodigy The Chemical Brothers CSS Dizzee Rascal Simian Mobile Disco Armand Van Helden Annie Mac (host of her own show on BBC Radio 1) with more names to come! Source Justice vs. Simian: The Chemical Brothers:

Ed Simons, presumably well over his break up with Lily Allen by now, will play a rare reggae set in London this month. He's the "very special secret guest" that's been hyped for the Lake of the Stars Launch Party. Lake of the Stars is an annual music festival in Malawi and there will be a launch party in London to kick it off. The London party takes place at Unit 7 on Saturday May 24th and proceeds will fund the music festival in Malawi - "the warm heart of Africa" - on... MORE

  The Internet is a big place and I can only be in so many locations at once. As much as I love mog and music lovers, I decided to move all my posts to one central location so I can spend more time writing and less time cutting, pasting and surfing.   My new blog, Get Gal VanIZed is the central location I'm referring to and though it is not solely a "music blog/mog", being the music lover I am means that pretty much every blog has a music reference or music link. In ... MORE

In my double-life as a jet-setting music enthusiast, I would definitely be in London (again, London... sigh.) 6 and 7 and 9 September to enjoy two different audio-visual sensory-immersive events at the ICA. On Thursday the 6th, Matthew Herbert will provide the audio for Joji Koyama's video, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) will be paired with Brian Degraw (Gang Gang Dance), and Max Hattler will show his films to Economy Wolf's soundtrack. Then, on Friday night, the Warp Films P... MORE

A great roundtrip track.