Girl Talk’s New Year’s Eve show was just what we expected: the biggest, craziest, hoppin-est dance party we’ve ever seen. Except for the traditional ball drop, it had all the familiar elements of a NYE party. There was the standard midnight countdown, a whole lot of borderline-porno PDA, a drunk girl simultaneously dancing, crying and vomiting, and an on-stage marriage proposal that got the whole crowd all sentimental and teary-eyed. And of course a few thousand people dancing wildly as Girl Talk (A.K.A. Gregg Gillis) mashed together a non-stop flow of guilty pleasure pop songs and hip hop beats. more ›

How appropriate, the day that Chicago's supreme mash-up duo has a record release party is the same day Gregg Gillis decided to drop the new Girl Talk album, Feed The Animals. For free. (Or pay what you can.) It's largely the same set of tunes he used to whip the crowd into a frenzy at last year's Pitchfork Music Festival, so there are no real surprises, but it is a supremely solid piece of work. Our personal favorite "what the heck?!" sample moment occurs early on when Aphex Twin pops up in "Shut The Club Down." more ›