College Music Journal has announced its initial lineup for this year's CMJ Marathon, and they include Four Tet, Helmet, Dean and Britta, The Drums, DeVotchka and more.

Cotton Jones will be playing shows for their new album Tall Hours In the Glowstream. ALSO: check out music from the band.

Deer Tick will be on the road this Fall in support of their latest effort The Black Dirt Sessions. ALSO: check out music from the band.

Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers speaks about electronic music and the tepid mainstream response over the past decade.

Arcade Fire have released a new interactive film for the song “We Used To Wait,” off of the latest album The Suburbs.

Cornershop have announced a set of U.S. shows in November, hitting big cities on both coasts. Although the tour is in support of Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, Cornershop have also recently released a Naked Ape reworking of their classic "Brimful of Asha," as well as an upcoming single with Matsuki Ayumu. ALSO: Check out the new Cornershop video.

The War on Drugs have laid out a new, long EP for release in October titled Future Weather. Find out more and listen to an advance MP3 from the album.

They each received 1 million kronor (135,000 dollars) at a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on August 30. The award was presented by Swedish King Carl Gustaf.

Sage Francis' video for "Love The Lie," off of his album Li(f)e. The song was co-written with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse.

How deep will the Apple music rabbit hole go? There's a lot of theories ... ALSO: take our poll on what Apple will do!

Google is currently working on a deal with major movie studios to offer pay-per-view video through its YouTube Store, which quietly launched earlier this year.

It's a new model: night club and recording label.

Having made their own DS-10 instrument, Korg and DS developer AQ Interactive yesterday presented something new for the handheld Nintendo. This time, they’re revisiting one of the all-time greatest hits of digital synthesis, the Korg M1 workstation.

Markus Schroeder tips us off that the M1 will be the next release for the DS. An iOS (iPhone/iPad) version may follow, as with Korg’s recent mobile rendition of the ElecTribe.

Markus is also kind enough to translate the Japanese contents of the presentation:

Features are (subject to change / error):

• 300 original M1 PCM Sounds
• 8x multi timbral
• 8 track 16 step sequencer 1 sequence max 64 pattern, max polyphonic sound 12
• master reverb, delay effect
• track overview, sound browser, sequence edit, mixer, keyboard. Simple and functional display
• notes/chords,/drum input mode by touch control
• data exchange by wireless transmit
• drag & drop transpose
• sustained notes

Release Date is set to 31st 12. 2010 over at amazon.co.jp.

(With past experience as a guide, delivery outside Japan may happen later – and it’s a shame this won’t happen by the holidays, huh?)

GearJunkies has a couple of screen shots.

None other than Nobuyoshi Sano does the demonstration, the veteran Namco Bandai composer who contributed to legendary scores for Ridge Racer and the Tekken series, and was the producer of the KORG DS-10 application.

And so it continues: whereas once, only analog synths could be classics or inspire nostalgia, the digital instrument has clearly arrived. The digital follow-up to KORG’s own Legacy Collection tried a similar revival of the M1, but there’s something about having it in a $150 handheld, let alone one that can also swap over to Zelda. Hey, maybe a lap of kart racing will wind up giving you a musical idea.

Check out Markus’ YouTube account for more.

Geeta Dayal traipses through the archives of the country's thriving early-'80s disco scene in an attempt to uncover music that could be considered "proto-techno."

Here's a pretty special moment captured by a regular at Sunday Best in New York this past weekend. While playing their namesake track—Liquid Liquid's "Optimo"—the group's frontman Sal P happened to be in the audience and was handed the mic for a spontaneous live rendition.