Big Apple Music Scene — Image: Newscom M.I.A. and Pharrell Williams at Diesel’s 30th Anniversary Concert in New York, October 2008 Remember last year’s Diesel Party with M.I.A., etc.? Well they’re doing it again. This time it’s called Diesel:U:Music Tour and the NYC... more info

MTV.com News — 'Make Her Say' clip, shot in L.A. and New York, hides the fact that its stars were thousands of miles apart.By Steven Roberts Kid Cudi and Asher Roth Photo: MTV News When MTV News spoke to Kid Cudi in March, he planned to follow up his hug... more info

Dlisted — Phyllis Diller (92) Mike Vogel (30) Katharine Towne (31) Eric Winter (33) M.I.A. (34) Carey Hart (34) Molly Parker (37) Heather Langenkamp (45) Mark Burnett (49) Fern Britton (52) Kar Wai Wong (53) David Hasselhoff (57) Lucie Arnaz (58) Camilla Parke... more info

Rollo & Grady — Dan The Automator MP3: M.I.A. vs. Rage Against The Machine - Bucky Done Killing MP3: Dan The Automator - Rapper’s Delight (Sugar Hill Gang Cover) Bookmark It Hide Sites more info

I Guess I'm Floating — The spectacular combination of Malawi-born Esau Mwamwaya and British DJ duo Radioclit that created last year's mostly entertaining The Very Best mixtape (download here) has until now been working around the clock on their highly anticipated debut. A... more info

Rolling Stone — When Rolling Stone wrote about Baltimore’s sauciest spitfire, 17-year-old MC Rye Rye, in our Hot Issue this year, the young rapper was getting ready to tour with A-Trak to support her debut album, Go! Pop! Bang!. She recently pulled out of the jaun... more info

Stereogum — M.I.A. does verses on the chilly NORML-approved "Legalize My Medicine," the first single from Nump's Student Ov Da Game. It's not about Robitussin, peoples. Listen, download, and puff with a passion at Siccness (via Urb). more info

Rollo & Grady — Athens Alternates contains three alternate versions of Black Lips songs from a recording session they did in Athens at Chris Bishop’s studio. The songs were intended for their second album, We Did Not Know The Forest Spirit Made The Flowers Grow. M... more info

the fakeRICH weblog!!! — Since almost every single blog in the world has something to say about MAJOR LAZER I figured why not bite the bullet, or Lazer and make this week's Music Monday about them In case you happened to be in a closet for the past year, MAJOR LAZER is made... more info

The Newsroom — Diplo and Switch recently collaborated on M.I.A.'s Grammy nominated hit Paper Planes. The duo is back together in the form of Major Lazer. Check out the music video HOLD THE LINE off their debut album Guns Don't Kill People Lazers Do. more info