Artist Girl Talk
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Girl Talk
The latest to line up behind a mash-up phenomenon that seemed to have died away, Girl Talk is Pittsburgh producer Gregg Gillis, who threw down samples of James Taylor, Smashing Pumpkins, Kanye West, and approximately 144 others on his debut, Night Ripper. The record fared well on lots of 2006 best-of lists, thanks to bizarre juxtapositions that work in terms that owe to more than mere novelty—a cut-and-paste euphoria that continues on Girl Talk’s 2008 follow-up, Feed The Animals. The disc is an even more seamless and dizzying blend of pop-culture flotsam, with Yo La Tengo brushing against Busta Rhymes and Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” grafted gorgeously onto Jay-Z’s “Roc Boys”—amalgams that generally play as dance-floor chargers.
Updated 09/15/2009

Road-trip mix-tape
The best music of the decade
New York:
#6: Pictureplane at Market Hotel
Washington D.C.:
2009 Virgin Mobile Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion August 30
Austin:
Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009
Milwaukee:
Girl Talk at Turner Hall
Chicago:
Girl Talk at the Congress Theatre
Chicago:
Lollapalooza 2009
Chicago:
Obama election-night rally
Denver/Boulder:
The best and worst of Monolith Festival
Washington D.C.:
Virgin Mobile FreeFest at Merriweather Post Pavilion
Girl Talk / Nino Moschella
Girl Talk: Feed The Animals