The official video for Gnarls's new single, the backbeat/soul collage "Mystery Man," matches the song's overall cut-paste, drafted, b-side vibe with some lo-fi, simply drawn, sketched on animation. Danger Mouse and a skinny Cee-Lo appear briefly on a rooftop, but mostly this is about Superman, who evidently sucks, occasionally enjoys bike rides ...

When Gnarls Barkley aren't getting reverse-covered by Violent Femmes or making fine videos with and without Justin Timberlake, maybe they're still going a little crazy. On "Mystery Man", from the duo's upcoming EP for the track "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" from this year's The Odd Couple, Cee-Lo waxes soulful amid shivering TV on the Radio-style ...

Packed into that set of "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" demos and alternate takes is this unreleased Gnarls tune "Mystery Man." It's a b-side collage stitched of a couple sketches -- Cee-Lo soulfully straining to a fat keyboard-and-backbeat vamp, bookended by a pair of Danger Mouse control-room geek-out instrumentals -- so while it's not Gnarls in fu...

No track from The Odd Couple's had quite the ride of "Who's Gonna Save My Soul," but then no track from that album is quite as affecting. It started when Cee-Lo and Danger were getting themseves in gear for the LP release, handing "Soul" off to ?uestlove to "leak" it to YouTube (along with Ahmir's impassioned lip syncing and video description co...

Common's repeatedly delayed, recently renamed new album, Universal Mind Control, finally has a tracklist and a release date. The album is scheduled to come out December 9 via Geffen.Although early reports indicated Santogold would appear on the album, a Billboard.com story today notes Santi's not on Universal Mind Control after all. Judging from...