Reuters - When Canadian singer Michael Buble asked Sharon Jones to join him for a "Saturday Night Live" performance of their song "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" from his 2009 "Crazy Love" album, things kicked into high gear for her band, the funk-soul group Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings.

Make this the third take on David Byrne’s highly collaborative bizarro concept album about shoe-loving dictator’s widow Imelda Marcos. Totally normal sentence. A co-credit on the sounds goes to Fatboy Slim, and credits on the vocals are spread among a deep cross-section of female headliners (from St. Vincent and Róisín Murp...

Owen Pallett is adaptable. If he's performing solo outdoors under cloud cover, he'll seemingly conjure rainstorms while debuting a righteous new tune from his forthcoming Domino debut Heartland; while at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, he'll seamlessly flesh out his tones with the help of a symphony orchestra. That sort of versatility is a prereq...

Details are emerging on the Renaissance Man's Here Lies Love, a concept album about Imelda Marcos, shoe-obsessed widow of the Philippines' former dictator. Byrne wrote the project with Fatboy Slim and promises every song will have a different vocalist. Among them: Santigold, Roisin Murphy, Sharon Jones, Alice Russell, and Tori Amos. Read more at...

-- The new Black Lips LP, 200 Hundred Million Thousand, is out February 24 on Vice and its cover is still giving us a headache. The band-- currently playing all over India-- just extended their tour through May. The Atlanta troublemakers are also holding a video contest for first single "Starting Over" over at Vimeo. Uploads will be accepted thr...