Mountain Dew drinks launch digital music label

Cool Kids have penned the latest track. Mmmm. Drink it in.

Misfit Marion

Suge Knight, founder of Death Row Records, was arrested yesterday. Assault, drugs and weapons. His real name is Marion. Bless.

Air France commissions exclusive tracks for new album

Exclusive tracks from Boards of Canada's Hope Sandoval, Telepopmusik and The Shoes, plus more as featured on their in-flight channel In The Air.

Zut alors!

1- THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Asleep from day
2- ALPHA - Elvis
3- *NOUVELLE VAGUE - Confusion
4- FINK - Trouble's what you are in
5- *HOPE SANDOVAL - Wild Roses
6- TUNNG - Bullets
7- TWO FOR THE ROAD - Road Trip
8- APPARAT - Hailin' from the edge
9- *TELEPOPMUSIK - Ghost Girl
10- FOUR TET - Everything is alright
11- *THE SHOES feat. KELLY DE MARTINO - 7 am
12- JOSÉ GONZALEZ - Down the line
13- KELLY DE MARTINO - Long, long, long
14- BOARDS OF CANADA - Dayvan Cowboy
15- ASWEFALL - Between the miles

Hedi Hi.

Hedi Slimane's new book 'Rock Diary' charts a life in music through a fashionable lens.  It features the ubiquitous Doherty and Winehouse, some beautiful pictures.... and then Johnny Borrell.

Josh Homme to produce Arctic Monkeys!!

Word on the street is they're to travel out to the desert to get some Homme style lovin'.

Oh yeah.

Beta Bleeps - Hereldeduke - click to download

Something for the weekend. At the risk of sounding like a 70's dad.... It's a catchy little number. Kind of Beta Band, Avalanches and something I can't quite put my finger on....

Rage play Reading tonight.

Oh yes. Loving Zack's 'Fuct' T in this. A classic 90's number. Up there with 'Junkies Baddy Powder' and coloured denim.

Converse continue their march over music

Converse Festivals is a social networking site based around sharing festival experiences. Join a group and upload pictures of yourself wearing a bad felt jester hat or being sick in a ditch. The guys there have got their eye on cornering the music market and they're not doing a bad job at all.

Come on, we all love Converse.

Puppet Misfit

Heard Interpol on the radio this morning and was compelled to find this again.

Charlie White who created this for 'Evil' is a dude. This was his first video.

Babes and Boots - click to listen

The Sugababes latest single is a cover of 'Girls' - as featured extensively on the Boots TV campaign.

I'm loving this idea. In today's climate a TV or profile ad campaign synch is a holy grail for artists, offering the kind of promotional platform of a magnitude that most label marketing budgets simply can't stretch to.

Can't get your track on an ad? No need.

Why not just cover a track that's already being hammered by a brand and cash in on the existing national awareness.

There's surely a partnership on the horizon here.

Sugababes own brand baby oil, hair straighteners or razors?

Here come the Girls.....

B-Live Metronomy remix - click to download

This is a Fontan remix of 'A Thing For Me' from Metronomy's forthcoming album.  It was commissioned exclusively by Bacardi.  Sweet.

Faces of the Earth

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Misfit - Lady Rider Elissa Steamer.

Gold medal at the 2008 X Games. Champion.

And Nice Boards by Para Rockwell.

Misfit

Misfit - Ladytron track meets New Order vid.

Recession? Goth revival? Ladytron are bleak as you like but this works really well.

Cashmere Mixtape Vol 1.

1. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream (Part 2) - My Morning Jacket

2. This Rhythm (Radio Edit) - Filthy Dukes

3. Anyway You Choose To Give It - Black Ghosts (Fake Blood Remix)

4. Crimewave - Crystal Castles

5. Michael Douglas - Neon Neon

6. We Have Explosive - Future Sound Of London (2006 edit)

7. Big Prinz - The Fall

8. Paper Planes - M.I.A. (DFA Remix)

9. Stomp It To The Ground - Friend

10.Brick House - The Commodores

11. Limousine - Black Kids

12.Wildcat - Ratatat

13. Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen

14. Faded Lines - Secret Machines