Broken Bells

Broken Bells at Center Stage, 2010 

Oh look.  Danger Mouse and James Mercer have a new Broken Bells single out, released in anticipation of their forthcoming concert film Live At the Orpheum.   What initially sounded like a one-off collaboration back in 2010 turns out to have surprisingly long legs, and the new single sounds great to boot. 

Broken Bells

Broken Bells at Center Stage, Atlanta, 2010

As hard as it is to believe, Broken Bells, the collaboration between James Mercer of The Shins and Danger Mouse of, among other projects, Gnarls Barkley, is still continuing.  We saw them back in 2010 at Center Stage, and here they are last summer in Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, aka The Schnitz.