My bud S. Christian @ Warp posted this vid of Jamie Lidell live doing his thing, and I must say I’m very impressed. I’ll definitely be catchin him when he makes his way inevitably to irving plaza. Live hip-hoppy Underworldy acapella real-time sampling layered multi track overdub goodness, this is.

And yes, today Yoda I am, apparently.

Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory and former ABC member Keith Lowndes have a new project called Honeyroot that has just landed a cover of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart” at #70 on the U.K. singles chart. Their new album, Sound Echo Location, hits U.K. stores on May 9th. [Stolen verbatim from Martin Hennessey's excellent 80s Nuts Newsletter]

My favorite accidental iTunes playlist segue was Maria Mena’s “You’re The Only One” followed immediately by Filter’s “I’m Not The Only One”. I had nothing to do with it, I swear.

Hows this for self-referential. The video for LCD Soundsystems “Daft Punk is Playing At My House” includes characters from Daft Punk’s video for “Around the World”, directed by Michel Gondry, currently of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”.

And now I wish that movie had LCD Soundsystem on the soundtrack.

Where’s Kevin Bacon when you need him.

Thanks, Anna Nalick, for thanking me in the liner notes to your new album.

The Boston Globe takes us to SXSW with Interscope A&R guy Martin Kierszenbaum to see just which overrated hype bands the Geffen machine will be injecting into hipster ipods for the next year. Hint: They’re all from either Brooklyn or Britain.