The Independent — Musicians including Moby and Justin Timberlake have paid tribute to the groundbreaking hip hop artist Adam Yauch, co-founder of the influential rappers the Beastie Boys, whose death at the age of 47 was announced yesterday. more info

ContactMusic — Mobys career has come full circle after agreeing to remix one of moviemaker-turned-dance music star David Lynchs new tracks for this weekends 21Apr12 Record Store Day The Porcelain hitmaker has reworked Lynchs Noahs Ark which features on the Twin... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Twelve or so years ago Birdman Records released More Oar, a 17 track tribute to the music of Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence. Outside of his work with Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape the compilation was my introduction to Spence’s solo work. Among ot... more info

The Newsroom — Moby talks to Hollyscoop at the 2012 Academy Awards about his music, upcoming album and Oscar nomination.... more info

Guardian Music — Moby sings the praises of strange LA architecture, Ai Weiwei prepares to make a splash at the Serpentine pavilion, and there's a towering new board game in townWatch your throne Kanye West; there's a new musician-slash-architecture freak in the blogo... more info

Guardian Music — James Murphy of the band LCD Soundsystem is to launch his own brand of coffee, but he's not the first musician to be lured by the beverageShould we be surprised that LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is trading his beats for beans and planning to launch... more info

Guardian Music — Folklorist's archive of 17,000 field recordings to begin streaming for free, including music from Britain, Ireland and the USOne of the biggest collections of field recordings is to go online. The Association for Cultural Equity is to begin streaming... more info

XLR8R — Earlier today, the storied Mute imprint announced the launch of a new label, Liberation Technologies. Since its founding in 1978, Mute has been at the forefront of electronic music, releasing music from acts like Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Goldfrapp, and M... more info

Time — Moby is really, really nice. I can say this from personal experience: a few months ago, I interviewed the vegan musician (and tea shop owner) about his favorite song of all-time, David Bowie’s “Heroes,” and when the interview was over he gave m... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Why does everyone think that Tim Tebow is such a douche? What has the guy done really except be an uber outspoken Christian?  Sure you could fault him for being outspoken.  Or a Christian...but is anything that he's saying really that awful...or j... more info