Guardian Music — Nasa astronaut featured on cover of Safe Trip Home album claims singer misappropriated his imageAn American astronaut is suing Dido, claiming the singer misappropriated his image on her most recent album. Bruce McCandless II was photographed on a spa... more info

Nialler9 — It’s Converse UK’s turn to match up artists for musical purposes. Although, it feels a bit less wholesome to be promoting a tune that came from a shoe company, there’s no denying that the hit ratio has been a good one – NERD, Julian Casablanc... more info

Guardian Music — You're more likely to hear MGMT or Grizzly Bear on a hip-hop record than James Brown these days. So is the art of crate digging gone for good?"Last LP we got down right, showed all these corny motherfuckers what hip-hop's supposed to sound like." So ... more info

NME - The Video Blog — Watch the latest video from Duck Sauce (aka A-Trak and Armand Van Helden), which features cameos from the likes of Vampire Weekend, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Santigold, and Todd Terry. The single is out October 10th via 3 Beat Records. more info

Guardian Music — The man behind Dizzee's Bonkers assembles a hipster cast to pay tribute to Hollywood's Funny GirlWell, this is just plain weird. Duck Sauce are Kanye collaborator A-Trak and producer and DJ Armand Van Helden (known most recently for his work on Dizze... more info

Nialler9 — A-Trak and Armand Van Helden’s Duck Sauce project gets a video for the ‘Barbra Streisand’ by So-Me. Look out for the cameos from Questlove, Santigold, Chromeo, Ezra from Vampire Weekend, Kanye, Pharrell, Yelawolf, Diplo and many more. You can b... more info

NME — Armand Van Helden and A-Trak pull in famous friends for their Duck Sauce collective more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Vampire Weekend stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to play “Cousins” & “Holiday”. It was the bands first daytime TV performance. Then again, I think it may be the first time indie rock was performed on any day time tv show. Am I wrong? Check... more info

Stereogum — Since you watch Ellen every morning you already know that Vampire Weekend visited the show today and played “Holiday,” and the did “Cousins” for the studio audience. It was their first Daytime TV appearance. Unfortunately the online clips don... more info

Guardian Music — This Oxford trio show, as John Lydon would never have said, that languor is an energyHometown: Oxford.The lineup: Jody Prewett (vocals, guitar, bass), Ben Rimmer (keyboard), Kit Monteith (drums).The background: What a lovely song and a lovely sound f... more info