NME - The Daily Download — So The Daily Download is taking a little break until January 5, but before we go we wanted to load up your iPods with new tunes as a little early Christmas present. See you in 2010! ---First up, Xmas goes Krautrock as '70s pioneers Can take on 'Sile... more info

Tastes Like Caramel — Thursday night Crookers‘ Bot couldn’t wait any longer and unleashed We Love Animals to the internet on the Crookers blog as a free download! The (for the most part) instrumental track features Soulwax and Mixhell and will be a definite staple in ... more info

Big Stereo — Fare Soldi just sent us this track they did for a compilation obviously called “Italo School”. It also features songs by Crookers, Cecile, Scuola Furano, Blatta and Inesha. Thank the god’s for these hot Italians. Fare Soldi- “Tutto, Tutti, Se... more info

Streetkiss Music — La Roux's new single being remixed by our sweet frenchy boy DATA ! La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy (Data Remix) And the most name dropping featuring of this year ending, a gift from Crookers to announce their upcoming LP : Lots Of Friend... more info

Panormx — Imagine this: a Collaboration between one of the best Italian duos, the best Belgian band ever and some Brazilian influences from Mixhell. Well your dream came true. Crookers shared this track for free to its fans: We Love Animals Crookers x Soulwa... more info

My Old Kentucky — Crookers team up with Soulwax and Mixhell (Igor Cavalera, drummer from the band Supultura) on this track from their upcoming album, Tons Of Friends. The album will be released on March 8th 2010.MP3 : Crookers ft. Soulwax & Mixhell – We Love A... more info

Guardian Music — Cowtown – The Things I Do for Big Entertainment(From MySpace via Empreintes-Digitales. Thanks to SOPHisticated for the suggestion.)"Sounds like ... Cowtown!" says this Leeds trio's cocky little MySpace page. Hmm. But sounds like ... the best o... more info

Persona Sauna — Yet another bizarre and random video from Crookers featuring Kelis.I thoroughly enjoy the WTF-ness, though it still doesn't beat the video for "Put Your Hands On Me."Crookers - No Security (feat. Kelis) more info

Tastes Like Caramel — It’s great to see Kelis back in full swing after a 3-year hiatus since 2006’s Kelis Was Here, a nasty split with rapper Nas, and giving birth to her first child. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since her innovative debut album Ka... more info

Panormx — Here is the new WHAT! WHAT! release of Ed Orable featuring Spoek. He convinced with his past release, "Everyone's A DJ" in collaboration with OH SNAP!. Now we present his second release "Dance No More" with Spoek Mathambo of Sweat X. Three remixes by... more info