Massive Attack have revealed the cover art for Heligoland, the new album due out February 8th. The artwork is by Robert Del Naja (3D) himself. Here's the tracklisting, it's got all kinds of Damon Albarn going on (he is the vocalist for "Saturday Come Slow", plays the keyboard on "Splitting The Atom", and also plays some bass(?).Heligoland Tracklist:01. Pray For Rain (vocals - Tunde Adebimpe)02....
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Massive Attack are set to release their new album in February next year. Full details and list of contributors inside!
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I love learning about music history and one of my favorite things (despite it being a major weakness of mine) is following sampled music back to its roots. It's SO cool to hear the original tunes that contain a guitar riff, drum loop or horn section that we immediately identify from a newer tune. (Did you know that Lil Wayne's "A Milli" is based on a reggae sample from a particular remix of A ...
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Without a doubt, House is one of the best shows on TV today. Okay, that's an opinion, but it is an opinion a lot of people share, so I'm sticking with it. Anyway, one of the great bonuses to watching House is the excellent theme song, none other than a 30-second edit of Massive Attack's "Teardrop." I only recently started listening to Massive Attack, so I didn't even know it was a real song...
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Though it goes uncredited in the album notes, this short dubbed up drum loop at the start fo 5 Man Army is brilliant when Massive Attack uses it and brilliant in it's original form. It is one of the reasons I was drawn to Blue Lines when it came out.For me this is a perfect example of why chasing samples is so rewarding. Just another way to find great music, and this original is a massive cut b...
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.Massive Attack have announced details of their first UK tour in three years, set to kick off in September.The band, who are gearing up to release a new album around the time of the tour, will call at venues in cities including London, Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle. Tickets go on sale on Friday (April 24) at 9am (GMT). Massive Attack will play: London Brixton 02 Academy (September 17, 18...
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"*Here's a full review of Protection, from earlier, yo*":http://mog.com/CrashPryor/blog_post/12703
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I'm a big fan of Massive Attack and Tricky. I wanted to post 3 songs that I didn't realize were all the same song until about 3 years ago. I find it interesting the different takes on each. I don't know who the line up is. I assume the girl from Goldfrapp is on the Tricky song and Tricky is on the original Massive Attack song but I'm not sure about the line up from the Help compilation. 3 ...
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Whenever I hear "Angel" by Massive Attack, I'm always reminded of the film Snatch which is one of my faves from Guy Richie's films..Last Friday I covered press for the forthcoming action flick The Condemned which stars the WWE pro wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (the Longest Yard) and Vinnie Jones (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch) Vinnie Jones totally eschewed that "hard as a co...
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Massive Attack have been appointed as curators of this year's Meltdown Festival. The annual music fest takes place at Southbank Centre and has been curated by David Bowie, John Peel, Jarvis Cocker, Patti Smith and many more. Massive Attack have worked with Portishead, Mos Def, Tricky, Sinead and many more during the last 3 decades. It will be fantastic to see who they choose for the festival...
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Sitting here nursing a whiskey and coke and listening to Massive Attack...Ever notice how some people just ooze cool...like Mos Def and Lou Reed, for example? Some songs are the same way...maybe not the best, but the coolest...Massive Attack's 'Dissolved Girl' gets my vote for the coolest song of all time...and yours?
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http://treblezine.com/features/163.html&page=2Part Two of Treblezine's Best Albums of the Nineties continues with the top picks from 1991.I selected Massive Attack's Blue Lines.http://treblezine.com/reviews/2750-Massive_Attack_Blue_Lines.htmlMassive AttackBlue LinesCirca-Virgin1991We all were witnesses to the birth of trip-hop when Blue Lines was born in 1991. Back then, besides Public Enemy, I...
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I hereby declare that Massive Attack makes the cut for Hip-Hop Thursday, based on this, one of their earliest cuts. And lo? Who's that busting some guest rhymes? That's right, none other than Tricky Kid himself, as he was known at the time.I love love LOVE the rhymes on this song!"Weebles wobble, occasional squabble, but what happens when the bomb drops down? Don't make a sound.""My heavy my br...
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I have never read a single word in any of the Harry Potter books. But I am still a huge JK Rowling fan. In this digital age, anyone who can get make a kid pick up a book is alright with me. And I think it is so cool that a writer has earned over a billion dollars in such a short span of time...that is mind boggling!SO with the last installment of Harry Potter coming out later this week, I will ...
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...I got my coat pulled about a post that andrew lau threw up called "*The F-Word*":http://mog.com/andrew_lau/blog_post/32007 wherein the folks at Rhino Records were taken to task for going too deep on a Foreigner compilation; a band that some would opine didn't have an anthology's worth of cuts to re-issue in the first place...I posted my two cents on his post but then got to thinking, how muc...
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