Guardian Music — Forget albums old man, the new thing is giving away a collection of tracks digitally for free. It's completely different, honest!Jamie xx In The Mix For Benji BThe mussy-haired production prodigy's slinky midtempo mix for R1.Flying LotusLovers Melt I... more info

Guardian Music — Pitbull shouts, Ed Sheeran strums, and everything comes with a gloomwobbleIt takes a few years' distance to look back on a year and define what it really sounded like, but the three front-running noises for 2011 are Pitbull shouting about being in th... more info

Guardian Music — (Higuera)Jeremy – now Jez – Kerr's A Certain Ratio were one of the first acts signed to Factory Records, and inspired LCD Soundsystem with their pioneering punk-funk. His solo debut has plenty of those trademark nimble, funky basslines but mostly... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — New Build is a new project from Hot Chip members Felix Martin and Al Doyle, who was also a member of LCD Soundsystem, and they are joined by engineer Tom Hopkins. They put out the limited edition "Misery Loves... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, Franz Ferdinand released the Covers Record Store Day EP, which features a whole mess of other artists taking on Franz tunes. One of those artists was LCD Soundsystem, whose version of “Live Alone” now has a video. Another was M... more info

Stereogum — Though it’s been a little while since LCD Soundsystem released this cover of Franz Ferdinand’s “Live Alone” as part of a Record Store Day vinyl compilation, the now-defunct group recently dropped the song’s accompanying video, a kaleidoscop... more info

Guardian Music — Comedian Donald Glover has taken aim at black machismo and homophobia with his rap alter ego, Childish Gambino. When it comes to the art of being edgy, he even sympathises with Ricky GervaisThe actor, writer, comedian and rapper Donald Glover is sitt... more info

Guardian Music — (Fiction)Their sixth album sees Gary Lightbody's anthemic rockers take a leftfield shift apparently inspired by LCD Soundsystem's The Sound of Silver, U2's Achtung Baby and Arcade Fire's The Suburbs – unit-shifters all, so it's experimentation with... more info

DrownedInSound — Members of LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip have formed a new project, its name: New Build. The component parts of New Build are Al Doyle, Tom Hopins and Felix Martin and there's also a guest appearance somewhere along the line for Planningtorock. Their ... more info

Altsounds — *Swedish artist Moon & Sun has announced a remix album titled 'The Wild Things Remixed' scheduled for release on November 28th 2011. The album features eight remixes by international artists who've remixed the original songs off Moon & Sun's 2010 alb... more info