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The keyword for both of these artists is Collaboration. I always love seeing great artists getting together and creating something unique that you would not see with one single artist on their own.

Broken Bells

This duo is made up of front man for The Shins, James Mercer and Brian Burton a.k.a. “Danger Mouse.” I’ve been a fan of both of these artists in some shape or form. With the The Shins, I fell in love with Mercer’s haunting vocals after hearing them for the first time on The Garden State Soundtrack. I know of Danger Mouse mostly through his collaborations including Gorillaz on their second album, Demon Days. He first jumped into the limelight in 2004 with his highly controversial mashup of Jay-Z’s Black Album and The Beatles White Album called “The Grey Album.”

You can hear Broken Bell’s full album in a couple of places for a limited time. NPR wrote an article about them and streamed their full album on their site. This may be there for a short time since their album is already out in stores. You can also listen to the full album for free on LaLa after signing up as a member. You can download one of their songs “The High Road” from the NPR SXSW Music sampler.

Below is a in-studio clip courtesy of Pitchfork.com

Gorillaz: Plastic Beach

If you haven’t heard of Gorillaz, you’ve probably been living under a rock. Their music is used heavily in commercials including ipod, motorola, and many more. You’ll never see the real people behind Gorillaz on any of their albums. That’s because the band is made up of four animated band members. The one permanent member of the band is Damon Albarn formerly of Blur. The rest of the band members are various musician from different bands.

Their latest album “Plastic Beach” has a bunch of well known artists helping them on the tracks from Snoop Dog to Mos Def to Da La Soul to Lou Reed. Take a listen to the tracks below.

Always been a fan of the Gorillaz animation as well. Check out their latest music video for Stylo.

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DISCLAIMER: Chat Roulette is an adult site. I wouldn’t venture to this site unless you are the adventurous and ready to be shocked. You might be offended by the pics in this post.  You’ve been warned.

So me being the adventurous type, I decided to mess with the people using Chat Roulette. I won’t go into a huge description on what Chat Roulette is, google can tell you. My plan was to have fun with Chat Roulette  by displaying some disturbing images instead of my face and see peoples’ reactions. Most people that are going here are looking for, naked chicks, penises, or trolling for attention. I wanted to see their reaction to something besides “the norm.” Needless to say I captured some amusing moments. Keep reading to see all the pics.

Most of the reactions were pretty emotionless like Castro and bug eyes here. They must have a one track mind. “Must see American girl’s boobies!” They usually click Next right away also.

I also got people who were genuinely disgusted with what they were seeing. That just seemed bizarre to me when there was far worse stuff to be seen at chat roulette but I digress.

You get the freaks who like to dress up for the camera and viewers watching, either to disguise their identity or just for plain shock value. The guy in the last picture was the most bizarre. He looked like he had blood on his face. I don’t know if it was real or fake.

You finally got those who were genuinely scared or frightened. I had a couple of girls who screamed then clicked next in lightening speed, so fast I couldn’t snap a screenshot. This is supposed to be an adult chat but I did see some kids on here and that bothered me.

The first picture below, the girl is telling her boyfriend to “hurry up and click next I don’t like it” while covering her eyes. The next picture is a girl who was on her bong when I showed the scary picture and she screamed “Dude don’t do that shit when I’m taking a bong hit! That’s not cool.”

I also got alot of people giving me the middle finger and telling me it wasn’t cool. Some people thought it was pretty funny. Others didn’t get it or clicked next right away in search of a naked body to look at or whack off to. There was entirely too much graphic nudity showing up. You can report abusive people and they are kicked from the room but only for 10 minutes. An internet savvy user can get around this by changing his/her IP address so its not much of a deterrent.

I get the draw of the service, you gamble by clicking the Next button cause you never know who or what is going to be on the other end. Nine out of ten times, you won’t be excited with who shows up next. If you want better entertainment, stick to the other social media like twitter, facebook, youtube, etc.