- “Hope for Haiti” sets record with $58 million raised (and counting); album goes No. 1 on iTunes. Clip is of Justin Timberlake covering Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah” with singer-songwriter Matt Morris, who recently released his Timberlake-produced disc When Everything Breaks Open.
- Electronic maven Caribou–aka Dan Snaith–issued the brilliantly blissed-out Andorra in 2007. Pitchfork announced today that its follow-up, Swim, will be released, fittingly, on April 20. Click to read my '07 interview with Snaith.
- Coachella 2010 invitee Devo on new album.
- Release date for new Erykah Badu album pushed back to March 30.