Neon Indian turned to Adult Swim to produce their latest album, and the result is the tale of a buxom babe and a service station.
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A few weeks back mxdwn covered this year’s installment of the Mayhem Festival in San Bernardino. While we were there, we took the time to speak with Metalocalypse/Dethklok mastermind Brendon Small. Small was casual and frank about the state of his mega successful Cartoon Network show Metalocalypse, explaining to us how the show itself might be coming to an end. He quipped at one point dryly of the band’s technically cartoon status, “We don’t exist. I think I do exist.”
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Starting Today, Adult Swim will release 10 consecutive weeks of never releases tracks as free downloads. Read more…
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Soundtracks for animated series are typically a joke, with very little time devoted to the typical sets of bangs and whistles of which they are comprised. With JG Thirlwell, however, the man behind Foetus on board for Adult Swim’s “The Venture Bros.,” this was never going to be the case. Read more…
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When it comes to seeing a live performance by Dethklok, the cartoon stars of the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse, one might wonder how such a band does a live performance. For starters they are not even real, and the musicians actually playing the music look nothing like their cartoon counterparts. Those who are familiar with Gorillaz, currently the only other successful virtual band out there, may have some clue. Big projection screens will be involved that will most likely obscure the real life musicians on stage. Although some people are interested in seeing how the music is actually played and that’s why they attend a concert, so why obscure the musicians? On Dethklok’s first tour a couple years ago, a compromise for this quandary was reached; a projection screen was used but it was above the band so you could also see the musicians playing. Well sort of. They were practically shrouded in darkness. This time around though, at the Hollywood palladium on November 19th and 20th 2009, the compromise was perfected as the band was better lit and actually seemed like a part of the show. Read more…
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