No big deal — we took the opportunity to reboot our Mux and here’s the result. As you would expect from our Moody crew, it’s all over the map. We hope you like it.

I love the tumbling beat, the hurry up and wait bass line, and gods gift to lyric writing, delivering in his trademark regular-guy-can-really-croon singing voice. It’s songs like these that deserve repeat plays… with no apologies to my cube mate… and now yours.

Lyrics provided (for your vocal accompaniment) below.

New Lace Sleeves

Bad lovers face to face in the morning
Shy apologies and polite regrets
Slow dances that left no warning of
Outraged glances and indiscreet yawning
Good manners and bad breath get you nowhere
Even presidents have newspaper lovers
Ministers go crawling under covers
She’s no angel
He’s no saint
They’re all covered up with whitewash and grease paint
And you say…

Chorus:
The teacher never told you anything but white lies
But you never see the lies
And you believe
Oh you know you have been captured
You feel so civilized
And you look so pretty in your new lace sleeves

The salty lips of the socialite sisters
With their continental fingers that have
Never seen working blisters
Oh I know they’ve got their problems
I wish I was one of them
They say daddy’s coming home soon
With his sergeant stripes and his Empire mug and spoon
No more fast buck
When are they gonna learn their lesson
When are they gonna stop all of these victory processions
And you say…

Thanks to Intergalactic Gary for introducing me to this Hot Chocolate song.

May contain trace amounts of animated NSFW-isms.

Hypebot takes a piss on a major label using ad words on their sites. (thanks Sultan!)

Users pissed off at Yahoo Music for shutting down can now use their credits over at Rhapsody. No word yet on how this will affect sales over at Slsk.

Book your tickets now: according to Rachel May over at the Freep, ’90s nostalgia bands Sponge and Marcy Playground are the double-featured entertainment for a Carnival cruise to the Bahamas from Oct 23-27th.

Gilberto Gil leaves his post as minister of culture in Brazil to return to music.

Early 80’s synthpop duo Blancmange is set to release remastered and expanded editions of their first three studio albums. Bonus points for one of the more entertaining artist photos we’ve seen in a while.

Idiot lighting techs working a Russian rave turn lasers meant for outdoor use onto dancers inside a tent after the event is moved indoors because of bad weather. Several dancers suffer permanent retinal damage.

Over the dead bodies of the NAB, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission finally approves the merger of satellite radio providers XM and Sirius.

Another silly top albums of all time list, and this one comes with an extra-special insane methodology.

This week’s one question interview is none other than Planet E Communications CEO, Carl Craig

Q: In the past decade, which record from another person has re-evaluated how and why you make music, and in what way?

A: I would say that Osunlade ‘Dont Change’ is that song. The writing and production is perfect. So beautiful and open.

Came across the empeethree file on DIEPSLOG back in May and play it consistently constantly, as I do. UB40 with Don’t Break My Heart.

For all my Second City classmates and instructors to date. Let’s tear some shit up tomorrow!

eMusic started rolling out a redesign yesterday. They started with individual album pages, and are integrating content from services like Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube directly into individual album pages.

This is just the beginning of the dramatic product improvements you’ll see over the next six months. Every few weeks, between now and the end of the year, we’ll roll out meaningful improvements to our service, some dramatic and some subtle.