That blockbuster Dark Was The Night charity comp is following up on yesterday's Dirty Projectors & David Byrne MP3 with a new song stream every day over at MySpace. Today's taste is a take on Nick Drake's "Cello Song," which makes sense given the artists covering it. Listen.

-- Rolling Stone and NME subscribers, get excited. Tennessean classic-rock yarlers Kings of Leon have another round of tour dates coming up in the U.S., UK, Europe, and Australia, include a benefit for the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital on January 24 at Chicago's House of Blues.-- "After your album flop...you gon' be on Koch." T...

Folks didn't necessarily agree that the forthcoming Red Hot compilation Dark Was The Night included your favorite bands, but it does include a lot of bands (31 exclusive tracks), many of whom you'll likely enjoy. See, for instance, the previously reported and analyzed collaboration between David Byrne and Dirty Projectors. If you recall, Byrne w...

A collaboration between David Byrne and Dirty Projectors is among the exclusive tracks that will be streamed for free before the release of the upcoming 'Dark Was The Night' compilation.

The endless stream of blog-friendly collaborations can make this blogger feel very unfriendly, but this one's for charity. Dirty Projectors and David Byrne team up on "Knotty Pine", the first track from the forthcoming Dark Was the Night, a 31-song compilation that will benefit AIDS group the Red Hot Organization. Nothing quite red hot about thi...