Bran Van 3000 was always an oddity, an almost impossibility. A band, in the most nominal sense, and a collective in the purest sense, rambling, rolling, a bit of this and a lot of that, before ...

Maverick Canadian musician James Di Salvio, AKA Bran Van 300, has really gone for broke here. The line-up alone is awesomely ambitious: Curtis Mayfield, Youssou N'Dour and Big Daddy Kane are just a ...

You certainly can’t fault Bran Van 3000 for lack of ambition – or energy, for that matter. Montreal’s old-school party patrol came out swinging on Friday evening, with the thankless task of ...

Bran Van 3000 sounds like what one should expect of the 21st century. Transnational in scope, multilingual in execution, the band offers a mad channel surf through music's past and present, a ...

BRAN VAN 3000 have lined up a slew of guests for their forthcoming album ‘DISCOSIS’. Curtis Mayfield, Dimitri From Paris, Youssou N’dour, Eek-A-Mouse, Badar Ali Khan, Momus and Big Daddy Kane all ...

“I think we’re all blown away by how easy and smooth it is,” ringleader James Di Salvio said of the Montreal collective picking up where it left off. It was just like old times outside a Pointe ...

News on Lil Devious, Neotropic, Bran Van 3000, Ninja Tune By Billboard Staff Ministry Secure Lil Devious From Miami The fallout from this year’s Winter Music Conference continues to loom large in ...

And unless sports metal or obscure Krautrock’s your thing, he’s just about cracked it too. That’s largely down to Di Salvio’s impressive little black book. On the trio’s last album, ‘Glee’, samples ...

While their befuddling debut Glee flailed as often as it flew, the second album from these Montreal genre-fuckers is a complete delight from beginning to end, even if you feel like taking a bath ...

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Let's get one thing straight: reducing Bran Van 3000 to their 1998 hit "Drinking in L.A." does both the Montreal collective and you a great disservice. The crew's musical blender of styles and ...