Tag Archive | "Gotye"

Kimbra Collaborating With The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Benjamin Weinman

Monday, July 30, 2012

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Back in March,  New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra (otherwise known as the girl in Gotye’s still-ubiquitous “Somebody That I Used To Know,” which is the year’s biggest-selling single) revealed via Twitter that she was a huge fan of The Dillinger Escape Plan. At the time, we’d mused as to whether that might lead to the two [...]

U.S. Album Sales Honeymoon Is Over

Friday, July 6, 2012

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So now that 2012 is more than half over, the folks at Billboard have crunched some numbers for record sales for the first half of the year. And while last year at this time showed album sales increasing for the first time since 2004, it’s back to business as usual this year. Album sales for the [...]

Video: Somebody That Coheed Used To Know

Monday, April 30, 2012

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The chart-topping song “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Belgian-Australian singer/songwriter Gotye already has a bit of metal cred, since Kimbra, the female lead in the song, admitted that she’s a huge fan of The Dillinger Escape Plan. And now Coheed and Cambria have opted to cover the song, which they performed last night [...]

The Girl In That Gotye Song Loves The Dillinger Escape Plan

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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By now, whether you like it or not, you’ve probably heard “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Belgian artist Gotye. Already a hit in several other countries, it’s one of the biggest songs in the nation right now and it pretty inescapable right now (trust us, we’ve tried). At any point, the girl that [...]

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