Nick Rhodes & MNDR can’t seem to get enough of each other. They are both featured on Mark Ronson’s new album Record Collection, performed with him in London at Lovebox last weekend & were interviewed for Dazed & Confused’s October issue earlier this week. Be on the lookout for it when it hits stands on September!

Five questions: ‘Rolling Stone’ critic Rob Sheffield

By Korina Lopez, USA TODAY

Rob Sheffield, 44, Rolling Stone music critic and author of Talking to Girls About Duran Duran (Dutton, $25.95), is a living pop-culture encyclopedia. USA TODAY tries to keep up.

1. How are you able to remember the thousands of pop culture, music and literary references that appear in…

Music journalist Rob Sheffield discusses coming of age in the 1980s, the years of MTV and John Hughes movies, the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut is his memoir of stumbling into adulthood.

WNYC Radio Interview with Rob Sheffield

Rumours are confirmed as 80s band join their producer for two songs

Duran Duran joined Mark Ronson for a surprise appearance at London’s Lovebox festival tonight (July 17).

Rumours had been circulating on Groove Armada’s Twitter page since yesterday afternoon (July 16) about the team up and towards the end of his UK comeback on the Main Stage the producer…

Duran Duran and the bogus era

BY LUKE DEMPSEY
9:33 am Jul. 12, 2010

In November, 2003, I was fortunate enough to get to meet the members of Duran Duran, backstage, after a concert they’d given at the China Club in Manhattan. The set list that night, part of what was billed as their “25th Anniversary Tour,” saw these…

Nick Rhodes was recently interviewed by ROLLING STONE magazine for an article writer Jonah Weiner is doing on Mark Ronson. The article is expected to be featured in the issue on newsstands August 4.

Mark Ronson back with a bang

By Tim Masters
Entertainment correspondent, BBC News

“Alouette, gentille alouette.”

Mark Ronson is speaking French – and with good reason.

The chorus of the dapper DJ’s new single Bang Bang Bang incorporates the famous children’s song about plucking skylarks.

“I think my sixth grade French tutor – Mr Broquet – will be proud…

SUPER-PRODUCER Mark Ronson says he was so inspired by Duran Duran that they have shaped the sound of his new record.

Mark, who has been working with the 80s icons on their latest album, was so impressed by their unique style that he couldn’t help but use it in his own work.

He said: “I really got caught up in…

Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Pussycat Dolls, Maroon 5, Duran Duran and More Get Block Parties Rockin’ This 4th of July With New Jams for Guitar Hero(R) and DJ Hero(R)

Award-Winning Hits Available as Downloadable Songs and Mixes From World Renowned Pop Sensations

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Axe shredding rockaholics, virtual mix maestros and all of their friends will…

Mark Ronson: My Creators Project will be like Disneyland for hipsters
By David Smyth, Evening Standard

A new collaborative arts event is coming to London next month, and naturally Mark Ronson is at the centre of it.

The London-born, New York-based producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist has the best contacts in the business. It’s in the blood: his father managed…

As had been rumored, Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later…, Trainspotting) has been tapped as artistic director of the opening ceremony for the 2012 summer Olympics in London. ”You have got to acknowledge that it is not going to be like Beijing in terms of this overwhelming, intimidating scale,” Boyle told reporters. ”It will be more modest than…

Classic album: Duran Duran Album: Duran Duran

Capitol Records/4.5 stars out of 5

Duran Duran plopped seemingly out of nowhere onto American shores in 1981 and was embraced as part of the second British Invasion. While it’s a bit daft to compare Duran Duran to The Kinks, The Who or The Beatles, this band has created some fine work that…

Mark Ronson gets all new romantic with Duran Duran

Producer who worked with Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse links up with 80s heroes Nick Rhodes and Boy George

To his admirers Mark Ronson is the producer with the golden Rolodex, thought of as the mentor who shaped the sound of multi-platinum selling artists like Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen, and…

John Taylor has sat down with photographer Carsten Windhorst to discuss some of his favorite albums for the UK’s Photo Pro Magazine.

This is the first in a series documenting Carsten’s “For the Record” project for Amnesy international.

For more information on the project, please click here: Photo Pro Mag

When Mark Ronson casually mentioned on his radio show there’d be some pals dropping in for a jamming session, no one thought he was expecting A-List company.

So there was the sound of jaws dropping when Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and rapper Wiley turned up at the Red Bull Music Academy studio on Thursday.

Mark has been broadcasting his New…

Tune in to BBC2 (UK) on Friday, May 28th at 10pm for a Top Of The Pops2 Duran Duran Special!

At the Ivor Novello Awards

By Dean Piper 23/05/2010

Lily Allen could barely hold all three of her heavy Ivor Novello Awards when I bumped into her backstage.

She told me: “I still think my songs sound like nursery rhymes. I’m sure I’ll be found out one day! I’m still going to be writing lots. But it’ll be for other…

Training Day
Frida Giannini and Mark Ronson Fête Their Sneaker Collab in London

“He is my male muse,” said Frida Giannini. “From the moment I met him, he inspired me. He is a package of genius, looks, and creativity. I mean, just look at him.” The “him” in question would be Mark Ronson, and in a cream suit, polka-dot…

Duran Duran fan has a plan

Barrie man helps launch online campaign to get 80′s band inducted into rock hall of fame

Posted By RAYMOND BOWE

Jason Henry is hungry like a wolf to get Duran Duran inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The 38-year-old Barrie man has hooked up with Kirk Harrington, who lives in Cleveland,…

BPI Takes Save 6 Music Campaign Online
April 28, 2010 – Global

By Andre Paine, London

U.K. labels body the BPI has followed its lobbying efforts to save under-threat digital radio station BBC 6 Music with a new Web site, showing British artists’ support for the modern rock and alternative station.

The BBC Trust is holding a public consultation…

PUMP UP THE VOLUME

Does Britney Spears deserve her own episode of ‘Glee’? Here are 10 acts who do!

Now that Madonna has an episode of Glee to call her own, wait for other music stars to line up for similar Glee treatment. First out of the gate is Britney Spears, whose manager has been trying to tweet up support…

Johnny Rotten Pays Tribute To Malcolm McLaren
by Gary Graff, Detroit | April 09, 2010 11:36 EDT

The end of the Sex Pistols in 1979 put them at odds — legally and personally — but John Lydon has stepped up to pay tribute to Malcolm McLaren, the group’s manager, following news of McLaren’s death on Thursday in New York…

David Bowie may be keeping a low profile, but his musical descendents are speaking up.

MGMT, Duran Duran, Vivian Girls, and Chairlift round out the eclectic cast behind Repetition: A Tribute to David Bowie, a double album homage to Mr. Ziggy Stardust dropping September 6 via Manimal Records.

Other contributing artists include Devendra Banhart’s Megapuss, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic…

Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger (EMI)

The Duran Duran reissues kicked off last year with Rio – the best album of their early career. Now we’re getting their third, less fondly remembered album, complete with a bonus CD and a DVD. The Bonus CD makes it interesting. The original album – including “The Reflex” and “Union of the…

Seven and the Ragged Tiger Duran Duran is a testament to the group’s occasional pop brilliance. Rating: * * *

By Thomas H Green
Published: 5:54PM GMT 26 Mar 2010

From a distance of three decades, Duran Duran’s claim that their musical intention was to combine Roxy Music’s glamorous pop with Chic’s grooves stands up rather well.

At the…

Recording and mix engineer, Joshua Blair is one of those all round nice guys who not only has a great ear or two, he also understands how to get the best from his gear…. old and new. His credits as an engineer include everyone from Beyoncé, Leona Lewis, Take That, Mel C and the Scissor Sisters, through to Queen, Stereophonics,…

Last night some solid (Iggy and the Stooges) and not so solid (Genesis!?!) acts were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In what has become a yearly debate about which bands and performers make for worthy inductees, we offer our own list of top 10 acts totally neglected by Rock’s legitimacy council. (As if rockers ever needed…

An award-winning screenwriter at international film festivals and labs, Caitlin McCarthy has two projects in development: “Wonder Drug” with director Tom Gilroy (“Spring Forward”); and “Resistance” with director Si Wall (“Marbella Nights”).

“Confessions of a Would-Be Duran Duran Groupie” by Caitlin McCarthy

Young Caitlin & her ‘John-inspired’ hair

Spring, 1984. I was on the edge of fourteen, about to graduate…

Roger is featured in the latest issue of FATE magazine in recognition of his DJ performance at the Belfast-based Fate Awards After Party on March 26th.

Click below to download an article on Roger in Italy’s Red Passion magazine!

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DURAN DURAN – Nick Rhodes-Interview

Good morning Nick, thank you very much for having some time to answer our questions today.
We have a lot of Duran Duran fans in the office that wonder why you spent so much time away from stage…why did you decide to come to Barcelona for the GSM congress in 2010?

It…

Trees that tweet, Duran Duran go 3G at mobile mega-show
By Helen Twose

80s pop sensations Duran Duran aim to team up with telcos to push their music to a whole new generation of fans.

Fresh from performing with his Duran Duran band mates the night before at the Mobile World Congress awards dinner Nick Rhodes talked about how…

Duran Duran’s Rhodes sings the praises of mobile media

February 17, 2010 — 9:34am ET | By Jason Ankeny

BARCELONA, Spain–Forward-thinking pop acts like Duran Duran once ushered in a new era of multimedia convergence by popularizing and revolutionizing the music video format, but the band’s keyboardist Nick Rhodes admits today’s artists have been far slower to embrace the full…

Ferociously popular
By ANN MARIE CHANDY

The tiger, regarded as the world’s favourite animal, has also been a constant fixture in the music scene.

FROM William Blake’s famous poem The Tyger to A.A. Milne’s adorable Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, art and culture are packed with references to the world’s favourite animal.

Yes, in case you haven’t heard, the…

The kids are all right (possibly even better)

As Gen Y gives way to the Information Generation, the youth of today take interest in the tunes of their parents and grandparents. And because of accessible technology, they can learn all about it
Four 19-year-old girls sit in a sub shop in Boston talking about music.

“I thought Hall and…

Ok, so it’s possible that we’ve got abandonment issues and that’s the reason we’re taking the news that Simon is leaving American Idol after this season so badly. It’s not like it’s personal, like Simon’s announced departure has anything to do with what we like or dislike.

Ok, then, fine. We’ll be adult about this. It’s cool. We know…

Martin ‘Wolfie’ Adams from England has just won the World Darts championship 2010. His walk on/off music is “Hungry Like The Wolf.”

Congratulations Wolfie!

Duran Duran at Wellmont

Courtesy Brooklyn Vegan

Monday, December 28, 2009
We loved songs of all kinds
Rock, R&B and even hip-hop made this list of the Top 40 of the 2000s
BY JIM SWENSON TELEGRAPH HERALD FEATURES EDITOR

Anyone’s Top 40 songs of a decade will be very subjective. Even high-paid music critics, though they might not admit it, like certain types of…

Music gift guide — DVDs

Pink, “Pink’s Funhouse Tour: Live in Australia’’ See the daring young lady on the flying trapeze sing “Sober.’’ Witness her have a silly pillow fight with her dancers during “So What.’’ Watch her “Get the Party Started’’ in this document – which includes a CD – of one of the year’s most vivid and enjoyable…

Band Aid: Do they know how much they changed the world?
Nov 25 2009 by David Williamson, Western Mail

Twenty-five years ago today, a group of musicians answered Bob Geldof’s call to record a single in support of Africans hit by famine. They wanted to change the world and they did – but perhaps not in the way they…

Is the internet stifling new music?

The internet may have been a miracle for music fans, Duran Duran star John Taylor says, but instant access to decades of recordings and artists’ inner thoughts is not all good.

In an extract from a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the first message sent over the internet, Taylor explains why the likes…

The Top 10 Records Sold Last Week at Record Runner
By Patrick Doyle in Featured, Local Top 10,
Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 3:00PM

In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not…

I hate Duran Duran, I love Duran Duran: The Remastered Rio
October 14, 2009 at 3:22 pm by Gabe Echazabal

As a teenager in the 1980’s, I was the proverbial “kid in a candy store” when it came to all the great music that was at my fingertips for me to explore and experience. Many of the discoveries I…

The Internet’s 40th anniversary conference had something the 30th lacked: a pop-culture panel.

At a campus conference on the invention of the Internet, some of today’s top thinkers about the Internet veered from the obligatory Al Gore joke to a mock concern that settling arguments with an iPhone Google search would end bar fights everywhere. But when you get down…

Written by Caballero Oscuro

One of the most influential bands of all time, Roxy Music gets a well-deserved and expertly produced career retrospective in this new DVD. Originally broadcast by the BBC in late 2008, the documentary covers the entire active recording career of the band as well as their recent reunions. The DVD expands on the original broadcast with…

“Live at Hammersmith ’82: Duran Duran” (2009, EMI, unrated, $27) Hungry like a wolf for a little “Rio” era Duran Duran? Check out this slice of synth-rock heaven. Never available on DVD before, the show is notable for the dynamic version of “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me),” originally recorded by Cockney Rebel. All the hits are here…

LA Weekly’s Blog covers Simon and John’s visit to Amoeba:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/off-the-record/duran-duran-amoeba-record-shop/

Check out Simon and JT shopping at Amoeba and telling viewers “what’s in my bag”:

What’s in my Bag?

Duran Duran
Rio [Collector's Edition] / Live at Hammersmith ’82!
[EMI ; 2009]

7.3 / 7.7 (out of 10)

For the last 20 or so years Duran Duran have essentially been a post-fame band, racking up albums, pleasing their very devoted fanbase, occasionally trying new things, and becoming an admirable pop fixture that no longer communicates with…