On February 24, 2004, music fans worldwide participated in a coordinated act of civil disobedience. Dubbed Grey Tuesday, the digital demonstration was this simple: Hundreds of websites posted a free download of The Grey Album, Danger Mouse’s mashup of the Beatles’ self-titled “White Album” and Jay Z&#8...

With After The Disco, the sprawling and ambitious sophomore effort they’ll release next week, Shins frontman James Mercer and superproducer Danger Mouse cement their band Broken Bells as more than just a way to pass the time between other projects — and their other projects are legion. Mercer is coming off a year of promoting...

Danger Mouse and James Mercer will release second album in January 2014    

These days find Norah Jones in a relaxed, pre-album-cycle mode, performing around town with Puss N Boots, her casual trio with bassist Catherine Popper and Sasha Dobson. Their holiday show at the Bell House featured a slew of Xmas carols and an “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” where Santa was played by Mankind Mick [...]

Over the weekend, Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi dropped an animated video for “Two Against One,” from the pair’s spaghetti western-influenced project Rome. Chris Milk directs and Anthony Francis Sheppard animates the clip; check it out after the jump. Rome is out now on Lex/EMI and available at eMusic. NPR reports ...