Guardian Music — Forget Carla Bruni – MGMT are the new musical sweethearts of France's top politicians. Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party has repeatedly used one of their songs, Kids, at rallies and in political advertisements. And according to the band's lawyer, th... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - LA's Obi Best have unveiled a brand new video "Green and White Stripes". It's directed by Max Goldblatt, who also helmed the video for MGMT's "Boogie Down." Obi Best is fronted by Alex Lilly, best known for... more info

Bridging The Atlantic — The Sydney duo that makes up Empire of the Sun is not to be confused with it's 1987 movie counterpart of the same name. Which oddly enough I am watching on TV as I write this post. Ben Stiller's in it..but he's not very funny so far. And so is Batman... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Free MP3 of the Day, New Music Artist: Amazing Baby Songs: 'Bayonets'Album: 'F---ing Cross EP'Sounds Like: Paper Route, MGMTDownload: 'Bayonets' (MP3)[Get Winamp] [Download Help] Next MP3 more info

PopSugar UK — The Brits 2009 takes place tomorrow! In the penultimate of my polls, I'm bringing you the nominees for the International Group category. Cast your vote and tell me who you're backing out of AC/DC, Fleet Foxes, The Killers, Kings of Leon and MGMT. Sta... more info

PopSugar UK — The Brits 2009 are taking place on the 18th Feb., and today I'm bringing you the nominees in the International Album category. You can choose from AC / DC's Black Ice, Fleet Foxes's Fleet Foxes, The Killers's Day & Age, Kings of Leon's Only By The Ni... more info

Pasta Primavera — Sometimes all it takes is a strange name and a cover of an insanely popular song to get me to listen.  Enter Cleast Eatwood, a Swedish duo of Erik and Li.  They recently sent me an email toting their slow drift me down the electric river cov... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: NewsPlayboy magazine unveils their third annual 'Rock the Rabbit' music issue today, which finds a handful of hot musicians from the rock and hip-hop worlds designing shirts around the Playboy logo. Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, Perry Farrel... more info

Kanye's Blog — Via: tripwire Click HERE for more info... more info

NME — MP3s purporting to be demos of material by Blikk Fang, the side-project formed by MGMT's Andrew Van Wyngarden and Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, are fake, according to Barnes. more info