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After all these years, Chinese Democracy by Guns N Roses is true, and not failing. Rolling Stone give the album a 4-star review calling Chinese Democracy “a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record”. Two songs, Better and Chinese Democracy can be heard at Q 104.3.

Listen to Guns N Roses “Better” and “Chinese Democracy” here >>
Read the Rolling Stone review here >>

Kid Cudi´s semi old hit and online favorite Day N Nite gets more mainstream attention. Day N Nite was featured on the latest episode of HBO´s Entourage last Monday and Pete Tong plays the brilliant Crookers remix of Day N Nite on his BBC Radio 1 show.

Listen and download Kid Cudi - Day N Nite (Crookers Mix) below:

Madonna campaigned heavily for Obama and against Sarah Palin at her her Sticky & Sweet Tour concerts. Last night she celebrated Obama in San Diego during the request section of her show. See Madonna´s Obama clip below:

Madonna´s Get Stupid video which is featured as an interlude during Sticky & Sweet show, connects Obama and hope of a better future beautifully. I remember how moving it was to see last scenes of the video live in MSG.

House music track Every Word by Ercola feat Daniella is just behind Rihanna´s Disturbia on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay Chart. Ercola is Finnish Dj Veikka Erkola, check out his MySpace here.

Listen to Every Word - Ercola feat Daniella below:

Antony & The Johnsons new EP Another World will be out on October 7 through Secretly Canadian. The new album The Crying Light will be out in January.

Here´s a clip of Another World, a beautiful song that´s just piano with Antony Hegarty´s instrumental vocals.

Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon has always been cool and now she has launched a fashion line for cool moms. According to New York Times Kim Gordon said: “There’s a need for clothes for cool moms”. To fill the gap, she has started a clothing line called Mirror/Dash with her friends Melinda Wansbrough and Jeffrey Monteiro. The name is taken from her experimental music project with her husband and Sonic Youth bandmate, Thurston Moore. Their first piece: a military-style wool jacket inspired by Françoise Hardy.

The super cool Mirror/Dash jacket costs $415 and there´s a limited-edition of 50 jackets for now. Orders are currently accepted for the coat through the Mirror/Dash website.

And check out Kim Gordon´s inspiration, Francoise Hardy performing Mon Amie La Rose below:

Here´s the new Bond theme,  Jack White and Alicia Keys collaboration Another Way To Die. It´s a typical Bond theme with some White Stripes guitars and Alicia Keys hey-hey´s.

Listen to Another Way To Die below:

After releasing Love Lockdown last week on his blog and getting feedback on low quality production, Kanye went back to the studio for new vocals, taiko drums, synths, and an overall remastering job. Oh, the power of social media! I like the fact that he listened to fan feedback and reacted fast.

Listen to the new improved version of Love Lockdown by Kanye West here.

Björk and Antony Hegarty sing a beautiful, artistical duet The Dull Flame of Desire. It is a song that´s highly repeatable, not easy, but after about 3-4 times you get the hang of it.  The lyrics are absolutely beautiful, they are from a translation of a Fyodor Tyutchev poem in Tarkovsky´s Stalker movie.  And the video is unique too. According to Bjork.com “Out of hundreds entrants for the “Innocence” music video competition Björk chose 3 new directors to collaborate on the “Dull Flame” video. Each director was given their own section of the film, to develop how they wished - on completion the 3 films were edited together in London to make the final music video”.

The Dull Flame of Desire is written and produced by Björk (no men were in 10 meter radius while making the album, so music journalists can´t name a man as the producer).

New Air France video surfaced, it´s the shimmering track Collapsing At Your Doorstep. The video catches windmills, modern and traditional ones. It´s very relaxing.

Watch the video to Collapsing At Your Doorstep: