Articles tagged "girl talk"

Mixed Media

Girl Talk - Live at Bonnaroo 2009 (photos / video)

by PopMatters Staff

[17.Jun.09] :. Photos by Karen Dunbar

Mixed Media

 

News

Girl Talk is all about the power of pop

by Jordan Levin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Mar.09] :. Imagine listening to a whole bunch of the songs that you’ve heard on the radio, or at parties, or at clubs, or in your room, for the past 10 (or 20, or 30) years, all at once, ricocheting and...

PopWire

 

Sound Affects

20 Questions: Girl Talk

by PopMatters Staff

[8.Jan.09] :. Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk) sure loves Indiana Jones...

Sound Affects

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008 Feature

The Best Electronic(a) Albums of 2008

by David Abravanel, Timothy Gabriele, Filmore Mescalito Holmes, and Dan Raper

[11.Dec.08] :. Ghosts, bugs, animals, tambourines, other channels, and Hercules: they're all part of the best electronic(a) music of the year.

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008

 

Events Review

Girl Talk

by Drew Fortune

[4.Dec.08] :. Playing for a generation raised on energy drinks, TiVo, and Adderall, Girl Talk’s talent lies in the ability to seamlessly blend disparate pop songs into a non-stop, propulsive groove, achieving a synthesis of irony and innovation.

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Life Savers Feature

Life Savers: Girl Talk

by Jason Cook

[17.Jul.08] :. Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis) made me do something I never thought I would again: enjoy pop music.

Life Savers

 

Girl Talk: Feed the Animals

by Tim O'Neil

[23.Jun.08] :. There's no such thing as songwriters anymore, it's all about sound-as-sound, divorced from context and pureed into something wilder than could ever previously have been imagined.

 

The Threat Posed By Girl Talk’s New Album

by Timothy Gabriele

[20.Jun.08] :. Amazingly enough, Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis has been met with virtual silence thus far by the major record companies, despite the relative ubiquity of 2006’s Night Ripper on Illegal...

 

Laptop mixologist Gregg Gillis bares (almost) all

by Erin Podolsky [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[20.May.08] :. What Gregg Gillis does on stage under the moniker Girl Talk is about as minimalist as you can get, which may be why he’s known, in addition to his prowess in mashing up song samples into sound...

 

Girl Talk blurs the line between artist and audience

by Jaweed Kaleem [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Feb.08] :. Where do you draw the line between originality and flat-out musical theft? Does it even exist? Mash-up DJ Gregg Gillis wants you to reconsider your notions of sampled music - and the idea of pop...

 

Engineer engages in giddy Girl Talk

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune]

[2.Jan.07] :. Biomedical engineer by day, subversive party animal by night, Gregg Gillis has turned his laptop into a lethal weapon. He was one of the most talked-about artists of 2006. Things tend to get out of...

 

Best Electronic Music of 2006

by Tim O'Neil

[11.Dec.06] :. Tim O'Neil sorts through a multitude of techno, microhouse, mix CDs, and mash-ups to offer up the year's best in electronic music.

 

Girl Talk: Night Ripper

by Nate Dorr

[21.Jun.06] :. Sampling over 160 bands and artists on the new album, Girl Talk continues to push his way out of the space between DJ mix and mash-up and into territory all his own.