Experimental chamber pop band 2 Foot Yard has announced the release of its sophomore album, Borrowed Arms, set for release on March 4, 2008. For every Borrowed Arms album sold in the US, the band will donate $0.50 to Food Change in Harlem, New York City as well as the Canyon School organic gardening project in Canyon, CA. (more…)

E-mail expert David Gewirtz analyzes the White House’s apparent lack of electronic security in his latest book, Where Have All the E-mails Gone? And with the recently reported White House claim that 5,000,000 e-mails may be missing, that’s a good question. (more…)

Recognized as cultural icons in Japan, the Yoshida Brothers are bringing their igneous sound to the US for the 28th Japan Expo this weekend in Los Angeles. (more…)

Comic book faction Dark Horse Deluxe has announced its latest addition to the growing merchandise line for The Umbrella Academy, the popular series authored by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way. (more…)

A glut of hip-hop heavyweights will pay tribute to the late Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) tonight at Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan. Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest), Raekwon (Wu-Tang Clan), Everlast (House of Pain), DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill), De La Soul, Snoop Dogg, Dead Prez, and former bandmate DMC will perform at the inaugural J.A.M. Awards. (more…)

Tommy Shaw (shown left), guitarist and singer for ’70s arena rockers Styx, is going green on tour for 2007-2008 stints with his famous group as well as side project Shaw/Blades. Biodiesel and logistics will be provided by innovative company BidForGreen. (more…)

House of Diehl’s Style Wars fuse the intensity and spontaneity of a rap battle with the creativity and style of a fashion show. After hitting Los Angeles tonight at Cinespace, The Style Battle Tour will head to Chicago’s Subterranean on December 11. (more…)

Autumn of the Seraphs is the second release from Pinback in a series of seasonal album titles, following 2004’s Summer in Abaddon. Whether or not the next record will include winter or spring in its title is up in the air, but multi-instrumentalist Zach Smith seemed to think it would be “kind of dumb to stop now.” (more…)

The industrious collection of music makers known as Critters Buggin has recently released a live DVD, entitled The Clackervalve and the Old Clobberd Biscuits Out and Smack the Grand Ham Clappers Mother. The disc features an mix of live performances, short videos, and photo slideshows. (more…)

“Western Europe and the United States don’t differ much,” says Gogol Bordello founder and vocalist Eugene Hutz (shown left), discussing the various reactions to his band’s music before a performance in Paris. (more…)