Today's roundup of quick music news stories

Sony stepped in it this time. NME reports on a Twitter-spat (aka twat) Kapranos is having with his U.S. label Epic, owned by the Sony corporation, who licensed one of Franz Ferdinand's tracks to the McDonald's site latenightmcdonalds.com (the site's been blocked for now) without the band's consent. (To be clear, the ire is directed at the culpri...

Singer calls Epic 'arrogant motherfucking pig-brained arseholes'

Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, Nine) is the face/voice of Dior's Lady Dior handbag line. Franz Ferdinand wrote the song she and Alex Kapranos sing about the bags. Listen at Lady Dior (via TwentyFourBit).

'The Eyes Of Mars' soundtracks new Christian Dior ad campaign