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Maximum Balloon's "Absence of Light" Featured on C.S.I. Tonight!
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‘Absence of Light’ f/ Tunde Adebimpe
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Maximum Balloon Included in Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2010!
Maximum Balloon's debut album has been ranked #24 on Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2010. Check out what Rolling Stone had to say about the album and click the link below for the full read.
Rolling Stone - Best Albums of 2010
Maximum Balloon Nominated in URB's Best of 2010!
Vote for Maximum Balloon in URB.com's Best of 2010 Reader's Poll. Maximum Balloon has been nominated for Best Album of 2010, Best Song of 2010, and Best Indie Act of 2010. Show your support for Maximum Balloon by clicking the link below and casting your vote!
URB.com - Take the Best of 2010 Readers Poll
"Apartment Wrestling" is NPR's Song Of The Day!
"Apartment Wrestlng" from the debut Maximum Balloon album is NPR's Song Of The Day! Check it out and listen to the track HERE
Maximum Balloon - Groove Me (Rory Phillips Remix)
Maximum Balloon - Groove Me (Rory Phillips Remix)
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Maximum Balloon - Groove Me (Rory Phillips Remix) by Interscope Records
ShockHound Interviews Dave Sitek!
Check out this excerpt from ShockHound's latest interview with Dave Sitek. Read about the story behind the Maximum Balloon name, Dave's project with Aziz Ansari, and his plans for the future of Maximum Balloon. For the full interview, click the link below.
SHOCKHOUND: All the vocalists on Maximum Balloon are rather obvious suspects. Were you at all tempted to reach outside your immediate peer group?Maximum Balloon: "What's In A Name?"
SITEK: If I do another Maximum Balloon record, I imagine it would be that. But this record wasn't really intended as an album at first. It was just, '”Hey, I made this song, let me con one of my friends into being on it.” And once I got a few done, I realized it was actually a whole record. I work with so many people that I could do [it with] other guests, but that wasn't the intention on this past one.
Dave Sitek Talks to the Alternate Side
Read the Alternate Side's interview with Dave Sitek. Find out more about the new Maximum Balloon album and about Dave's various roles as a producer, collaborator, and DJ. Take a look at an excerpt from the article below and click the link for the full read.
AS: The song "Communion," with Karen O is a surprising detour for both of you - very sultry, very atmospheric. How did you both work on that track? Did you present her with the song?
Dave: I have always had a soft spot for Karen's "gentle" voice since we did the vocal tracks for "Maps." We were having dinner and I was playing her some music I'd been working on and true to her intuition, she sang the exact right thing the exact right way. I turned on a mic and thanked my lucky stars.
TAS Interview: Dave Sitek of Maximum Balloon
NME.COM: Interview with Dave Sitek
Watch NME.com's hilarious interview with Dave Sitek. Check out the video by clicking the link below to learn about the story behind Maximum Balloon's name and much more.
Dave Sitek on Maximum Balloon - Video Interview
Check out Maximum Balloon's In Studio Performance with Souncheck!
Listen to Soundcheck's podcast with Maximum Balloon for in studio performances of tracks from the new Maximum Balloon album. The playlist features "Groove Me," "Tiger," and more. Click the link for the full performance.
Soundcheck In Studio: Maximum Balloon
LA Times: The Making of Dave Sitek's Maximum Balloon
The LA Times talks to Dave Sitek about the community effort that went into the making of the new Maximum Balloon album. Read an excerpt from the article here and click the link below for the full story.
"Dave's had a love affair with drum machines and synths since the very beginning of TV on the Radio," says Karen O, whose band's three full-lengths were all co-produced by Sitek. "He's been wielding those instruments experimentally for a while, and now he's focusing them where they're most at home — on the dance floor for our dancing pleasure."Dave Sitek calls on the community to make 'Maximum Balloon'
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