The new Gorillaz music video will have you reconsidering the toast you had breakfast this morning. In a creative and, might we add, cartoonish kind-of-way, the English group put together a very animated music video for their latest track “Do Ya Thing” featuring James Murphy and Andre 3000. Watch the official music video below.
Since its inception, few of us have questioned iTunes’ dominance in the digital music arena. Aside from offering the largest selection of songs and artists available for download, features such as user created playlists and mixes–basically hipper, more democratized versions of those ”if you liked this, you might also like” recommendations–have allowed users to expand their musical horizons.
However, with gadgets like the iPad becoming more and more prevalent in society, some music fans have expressed a lack of satisfaction with iTunes and have sought new programs and applications to immerse themselves more fully in the musical experience. One such app making a name for itself is Aweditorium.
Are you a member of one of the hippest bands on the planet? Are you on tour, unable to make it to a conventional studio, but you’ve been struck by musical inspiration and want to get your work recorded as quickly as possible while still creating something that sounds professional and commercially appealing? Want to get that music out to fans as quickly as possible?
Luckily for Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, the iPad’s got an app for that.
Just two days removed from reports that Damon Albarn might retire the Gorillaz gang after the group closes out their world tour this month, now we get word that the comic book band are planning to release a new album on Christmas Day as a free download.
This is the same album Albarn said he recorded on his iPad, “in hotel rooms across America”.
The album will be available Xmas day on the band’s website, via the Gorillaz Advent Calendar, which features Gorillaz ‘stuff’ like sound-check footage and online video games.
The end of Gorillaz? Maybe. Damon Albarn is considering retiring the Gorillaz gang when the band’s current world tour wraps up in New Zealand later this month.
“I couldn’t keep going at this size and pace,” Albarn explains to The Age newspaper.
Albarn is planning a “period of reflection and sobriety” to consider the cartoon band’s future.
Because teasing me and raising my hopes to Herculean levels and then crushing them brutally by never touring America is his cruel game, Damon Albarn has been dropping hint that Blur may be reuniting for the second time in two years. But, before your hopes start shooting for the sky, according to Spinner, the project will be “small”:
A new Gorillaz album may be released before Christmas, according to Damon Albarn, who says he recorded the album on his iPad, “in hotel rooms across America”.
Albarn said in an interview with NME that he hoped the Gorillaz record would be the first made on an iPad. “I fell in love with my iPad as soon as I got it, so I’ve made a completely different kind of record,” he said.
While “Glee” fever continues to spread across the country, one place the rabid fandom hasn’t reached appears to be the Plastic Beach. Gorillaz‘ spokesperson and songwriter, Damon Albarn, told the Associated Press that he wouldn’t let the popular show cover his band’s material, calling their work “a very poor substitute for the real thing.”
