Guardian Music — Mflow, a new download service, encourages users to recommend tracks to each other for a free listenIf I had a penny for every time I've heard pro-piracy people say the music industry should stop whining about illegal downloading and be entrepreneuria... more info

Guardian Music — Extrovert Notorious Big splices surprisingly well with the retiring xx on a superb new hybridBy day, San Francisco's Charlie Kubal works at Google. By night, he DJs at bars under the name Wait What. And it's in that latter guise that the 24-year-old ... more info

Pop Justice — Let's inflate then jump from a chair onto the Ribena carton of recycled news: » Crossover rap 'artiste' Example intends to spend this Good Friday watching a film and eating Sugar Puffs. (Twitter) (http://twitter.com/EXAMPLEyoutwit/status/1147172830... more info

Guardian Music — Chris Salmon checks out a new service that combines music downloads with social networkingIt isn't easy for a web-based music company to come up with a great, original idea, realise it effectively and then convince people they need it in their lives.... more info

DrownedInSound — So, all day you've been waiting to hear who will be playing Reading and Leeds 2010 and possibly debating whether you can be bothered to fork out for a ticket. The first chunk of acts have just been announced quite ceremoniously on Radio 1 by the exci... more info

Thrash Hits — Well, we’re sure some of you will have noticed that a lot of “media outlets” are getting very excited over the fact that the official Refused website has been updated to a big ol’ placeholder page stating nothing more than “Coming Soon”. ... more info

NME - The Video Blog — Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones hit BBC studios on Sunday when Them Crooked Vultures recorded a session for Radio One's Zane Lowe. Watch the band rehearsing and talking about their supergroup in the video below - including footage of the... more info

Chorus.fm — A new *Foals (http://absolutepunk.net/foals)* song called "This Orient" premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show yesterday. Hear it in the replies. Submitted by youngmountain more info

DrownedInSound — Here's the new Foals track 'This Orient' which was previewed on Zane Lowe's show tonight Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Altsounds — 'So Many Nights' is the eagerly awaited fourth EP release from BURNS, the young Brit newcomer championed by the NME, Mixmag, The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, DJ mag, Calvin Harris, Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, the Ed Banger crew, Fake Blood, A Trak, Ae... more info