Check out Timbuktu’s performance and interview at Wednesday nights Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo. Performing his hit “Alla vill till himmelen men ingen vill dö” and “Let the monkey out” with fellow rapper Vinni in front out thousands of people in the audience. He also had a personal talk with host Claire Danes and Aaron Eckhart regarding this years winner and his own long road of music and politics.
The show will broadcast tonight on SVT 1 in Sweden at 22.00
It gives us great pleasure to present yet another intriguing visual installment from Danko Jones, this time it is the official video for their latest single “Legs”. With acclaimed and often controversial Canadian director Bruce LaBruce at the helm they’ve produced a visually captivating video by mirroring the works of Pierre Molinier and applying an artistic yet eccentric use of sexuality.
LaBruce, who is best known for his sexually charged and culturally challenging productions have been looking forward to working with the band for a long time, says LaBruce: “I’ve known Danko and John for many years, and I went to many Danko Jones shows when they were first starting out in Toronto and in New York./…/ After reconnecting with Danko last year at his book launch, we decided it was finally time for me to do a video for them.”
The video itself is in line with the direct vision LaBruce had to create a spectacular and unexpected video for the song. “Danko suggested their song Legs, and for some reason I immediately thought of some of my sexy and leggy acquaintances in the M-F transsexual community. I really love the work of the famous photographer Pierre Molinier, whose gender bending photographs have influenced a variety of artists, so I decided to pay tribute to his work in the video.” Alongside LaBruce was art director Kenny Baird who, together with LaBruce, has worked notably with Floria Sigismondi on some of her most successful music videos, to help recreate the style and mood of Molinier.
This out of the box thinking has resulted in a striking and unique video to join the long list of video installments the band has made over the years including the “Below The Belt” trilogy and their documentary “Bring On The Mountain” (both directed by The Diamond Brothers). Danko says “Why this collaboration with Bruce LaBruce didn’t happen sooner is beyond me. From writing the liner notes to our second release, to using our song in his 1999 movie, “Skin Flick/ Skin Gang”, Bruce’s connection to our band is irrefutable.”
This past year the band has been touring extensively. Not only have they sold out shows all over Europe and Canada, they have finished their two biggest US tours to date; supporting Volbeat across the country as well spending 5 weeks on the road with the 2013 Uproar Festival. They’ve also reached their highest ever radio ratings in the US with the single “Just A Beautiful Day” peaking at no. 26 on the Active Rock charts.
This new collaboration with LaBruce is paving a new road of artistic creations for the band: “For us, Bruce directing “Legs” has been a long time coming and of course, good things come to those who wait. This music video is a trip. We love it. We know you’ll love it too.”
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We can now happily announce that Timbuktu is playing at the 20th Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo on December 11th. Along with international artists such as Morrissey, Mary J Blige, James Blunt and many more he will take the stage to celebrate this years winner at the Oslo Spektrum Arena. If you want tickets and more details please visit the Nobel Peace Prize web page.
Lyssna på Chords fina remix av Vernica Maggio’s senaste singel “Sergels torg” från hennes skiva “Handen i fickan fast jag bryr mig”. Tillgänglig idag på Spotify.
Det är med glädje vi kan meddela att vi nu har den stora äran att representera artisten och låtskrivaren Tomas Andersson Wij. Vi har beundrat Tomas arbete på avstånd i många år och det känns fantastiskt spännande att nu äntligen få jobba tillsammans.
Okej att vara soloartist men att vara solo när det gäller kontrakt, förhandlingar och långsiktig planering är inget vidare. Jag är väldigt glad att ha hittat bra folk som kan hjälpa mig med allt det där, säger Tomas Andersson Wij.
Tomas håller för närvarande på att spela in nytt album med beräknad release hösten 2014 och nyligen drog andra säsongen av ”Tomas Andersson Wij pratar med” igång, där han varje måndag på Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra samtalar med en gäst inför publik. Henrik Schyffert, Melissa Horn, Tommy Körberg och Marie Göranzon har redan medverkat i höst och bland kommande gäster finns bland annat Lotta Lundgren och Eva Dahlgren.
Utöver detta har han en rad andra intressanta projekt på gång som vi kommer kunna berätta mer om snart och vi ser framemot ett långsiktigt samarbete där vi hoppas vara med och utveckla alla områden Tomas verkar inom. För oss känns han som det perfekta tillskottet till en managementroster som sedan innan består av Danko Jones, Timbuktu, Chords och journalisten Erik Niva och huvudsakligen ansvariga för arbetet med Tomas kommer José Saxlund vara.
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Lyssna på Tomas senaste album “Romantiken” nedan
Danko Jones return to Nordic soil today with a sold out show at The Tivoli in Helsingborg. With another 17 shows in Sweden, Norway and Finland coming up they will bring their music straight to the fans. To coincide with this we have reissued “Rock and Roll is Black and Blue” exclusively through Spotify with the 2 bonus tracks “Crazy In Bed” and “Whatever Happens”, check it out below!
Check out the two latest episodes of the Danko Jones Podcast featuring guests Pete Stahl (Scream, Wool, Goatsnake) and Jørgen Munkeby, singer/saxophonist/guitarist of the brilliant band, Shining (Norway). The weekly podcast can be heard and downloaded for free here, or subscribe to it via iTunes and always be up to date.
Today you can stream the entire Felled Trees Where We Been album!! Felled Trees is an all-Star collaboration band whom Cover Dinosaur Jr’s Seminal “Where You Been?” From Front to Back
The band features members of Thrice, Samiam, No Motiv, Texas is the Reason, The Jealous Sound, Solea, Peace’d Out, Last Days of April, Suedehead, Knapsack, and RX Bandits. You can order a limited edition copy on vinyl here.
