Cross Rhythms — Strike First Records sign metal team The Burial more info

AOL Music — (June 21) -- More than 90 years after George Henry Humphrey was killed in northern France during World War I and quickly buried in an unmarked grave, the fallen but not forgotten Marine is getting a proper burial at Arlington National Cemetery. more info

AOL Music — (June 10) --The Army is enlisting a pair of former senators to oversee Arlington National Cemetery after a scathing review of America's "sacred ground" revealed more than 200 bodies had been misplaced or misidentified amid "dysfunctional management" ... more info

Guardian Music — At 165 bpm, footwork – the dance sensation that has replaced breakdancing in inner-city Chicago – is an exercise in speed and one-upmanshipWB-boying first swept New York in the 70s, legend held that street gangs used breakdancing as an alternativ... more info

Guardian Music — From council estates to mansions, Saint Etienne are perhaps the only band to capture the teeming variety of the capitalThe last few years have produced a clutch of brilliant London records, from Lily Allen's carefree skips and the Bug's apocalyptic b... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — From Radiohead, Damon Albarn to Portishead, the chief exports from the era of Labor ascendancy continue to enjoy a commercial and critical acclaim that their domestic contemporaries lack. ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — While Billy Corgan, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, and the rest of the American “Alternative Nation,” alumni form super-groups and chase reunion money, their British peers have sustained a chemical longevity. From Radiohead, Damon Albarn to Portis... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Photo by Owen Richards Jamie Smith, the beatmaker for the xx, made an hour-long mix for French clothing label Colette, which Abeano Music has made available for download. The mix leans heavily towards dubstep and UK garage-- grab the mix and check ou... more info

Abeano — Following his inescapably brilliant reworking of Florence And The Machine and equally compelling remixes of The XX’s own ‘Basic Space’, here is Jamie XX fullest and frankest expression of love for beats, dubstep and all things wobbly.... more info

Guardian Music — It started as a webzine five years ago, now Hyperdub is at the forefront of the increasingly eclectic UK dance sceneSome record labels are born great, some achieve greatness, others have greatness thrust on them. London-based dance label Hyperdub, ju... more info