Brian Joseph Burton aka Danger Mouse

[HeatherAnne]

Brian Joseph Burton (born July 29, 1977), better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is a Grammy Award winning, American musician, songwriter and producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, which combined acapellas from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from The Beatles' White Album.
He formed Gnarls Barkley with Cee-Lo Green and produced their albums St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple. He produced the second Gorillaz album, 2005's Demon Days, as well as Beck's 2008 record, Modern Guilt. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Producer of the Year category five times (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011), and won the award in 2011. In addition, Burton worked with rapper MF Doom as Danger Doom and released the album The Mouse and the Mask and the EP Occult Hymn.
In 2009 he collaborated with James Mercer of the indie rock band The Shins to form Broken Bells. The group's first album was released on March 9, 2010.


Danger Mouse was listed as one of Esquire magazine's seventy-five most influential people of the 21st century. In 2010 he began producing an album for U2.


Awards

• 2004 Entertainment Weekly Album of the year (Danger Mouse - The Grey Album)
• 2004 GQ Magazine "Men of the Year"
• 2005 Wired Magazine Rave Award (Music)
• 2005 Grammy Nomination (Danger Mouse - Producer of the Year)
• 2005 Q Magazine (Best Producer)
• 2006 Grammy Award - Best Alternative Album (Gnarls Barkley -St. Elsewhere)
• 2006 Grammy Award - Best Urban/Alternative Performance (Gnarls Barkley - Crazy)
• 2006 Entertainment Weekly Album of the Year (Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere)
• 2006 Grammy Nomination (Danger Mouse - Producer of the Year)
• 2006 Q Magazine (Song of the Year - Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" )
• 2008 Rolling Stone Magazine Best Producer in Rock
• 2009 Esquire Magazine 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century
• 2009 Grammy Nomination (Danger Mouse - Producer of the Year)
• 2009 GQ Magazine Album of the Year (Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul)
• 2009 Paste Magazine "Producer of the Decade"
• 2010 Grammy Nomination - Best Alternative Album (Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple)
• 2010 Rolling Stone Magazine - Song of the Decade (Gnarls Barkley - Crazy)
• 2011 Grammy Award (Danger Mouse - Producer of the Year)
• 2011 Grammy Nomination - Best Alternative Album (Broken Bells - Broken Bells)

Danger Mouse albums

See also: Gnarls Barkley Discography and Danger Doom Discography

• Danger Mouse and Jemini – Ghetto Pop Life (2003)
• Danger Mouse – The Grey Album (2004)
• Gorillaz – Demon Days (2005)
• Danger Doom - The Mouse & The Mask (2005)
• The Rapture – Pieces of the People We Love (2006)
• Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (2006)
• Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (2006)
• The Good, the Bad and the Queen (2007)
• The Black Keys – Attack & Release (2008)
• Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (2008)
• The Shortwave Set – Replica Sun Machine (2008)
• Martina Topley-Bird – The Blue God (2008)
• Beck – Modern Guilt (2008)
• Joker's Daughter – The Last Laugh (2009)
• Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of the Soul (2010)
• Broken Bells – Broken Bells (2010)
• The Black Keys – Brothers (2010)
• Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome (2011)
• U2 - TBA (2011)

wikipedia

 

[HeatherAnne]

He and film-producer/recording artist Daniele Luppi just finished working on a spaghetti western inspired (such a rad idea) album, Rome to be released in May.

I am obsessed with the songs that have leaked so far, especially the one with Jack White! The other is with Norah Jones is amazing as well.

Back in November, we reported that producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse and Italian composer Daniele Luppi were at work on Rome, a spaghetti western-inspired project featuring contributions from Jack White and Norah Jones. Now, the resulting LP has a release date: May 17, via Capitol Records, in the U.S. The tracklist is below.

The album was recorded at Rome's Forum Studios (which was founded in part by composer Ennio Morricone), with the assistance of musicians that performed Morricone's original scores for spaghetti western classics The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. White sings on three songs on the record ("The Rose With the Broken Neck", "Two Against One", and "The World"), and so does Jones ("Season's Trees", "Black", and "Problem Queen"). Soprano singer Edda Dell'Orso (who also contributed to the music for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) is also featured on the LP. Music video director Chris Milk has been named the "Visual Director" for the project.
Rome:
01 Theme of Rome
02 The Rose with the Broken Neck
03 Morning Fog (Interlude)
04 Season's Trees
05 Her Hollow Ways (Interlude)
06 Roman Blue
07 Two Against One
08 The Gambling Priest
09 The World (Interlude)
10 Black
11 The Matador Has Fallen
12 Morning Fog
13 Problem Queen
14 Her Hollow Ways
15 The World

Source: all from pitchfork.com

 

[MulletProof]

I was obsessed with Dark Night of the Soul a couple years ago. Now I find it quite.. eerie. Even Little Girl. I swear it gives me the creeps to listen that record .. I think it's Mark's suicide what pretty much ruined it for me (that sounds a little insensitive, I know), cause I was still very attached to that album when it happened.

Really looking forward to listen to the new album though!..

 

[HeatherAnne]

I agree, the Dark Night of the Soul album did take on an even darker (no pun intended) vibe since Mark's death

I still love it though.

Being a massive Strokes/Julian Casablancas fan Little Girl was my favorite as well. I also was crazy about the David Lynch collaborations and my second favorite was this one, Revenge, with the Flaming Lips: