Reuters - Holding a red velvet cupcake with white frosting and colored sprinkles, Akon stands atop an extended conference room table at Universal Records' New York headquarters. He's ecstatic.

Jack White was playing patty-cake with the Kills yesterday. Today he and his fellow Raconteurs head out into the woods and play the traveling hobo bards from the album cover of Consolers Of The Lonely. It's all in honor of Autumn De Wilde's video for soft Appalachian rocker "Old Enough." If you're familiar with De Wilde's other work, you should ...

Diplo's remixed Bleach's "Swap Meet" for the videogame Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. It was created by Evolution Studios, whose "audio lead" Alan McDermott had this to say about Diplo's ADD version of the 1989 track:This is our big hitter. First time ever, and it's exclusive to the MotorStorm Festival. MotorStorm has, in the past, managed to sway Ni...

Videos added to the Pitchfork.tv archives today are all over the damn place, from the VCR-as-memory-machine whimsy of the Books' "If Not Now, Whenever" to modern shapes and colors of the Sea and Cake's cover of David Bowie's "Sound & Vision" to more recent videos by +/- and Deerhoof. Clips by Kazi (ft. Madlib), Harlem, the Last Shadow Pu...

Videos added to the Pitchfork.tv archive this week include a few newer ones. The clip for Anathallo's "Bells", a song from their upcoming album on Anticon, begins with a pattern of the titular sounds and sets them flashes of color in a dark space. Centro-Matic performs "Rat Patrol and DJs" on a gritty porch, and then Drag City band Faun Fables g...