Twice-monthly email magazine Earplug has a new interview up with Todd Osborn on his new LP "Osborne", out today on Spectral Sound. If reading is not exactly your thing, check out a preview of the album's closing track "5th Stage" and a remix to "Air Pistol" alongside classic Talking Heads, unreleased Michigan beat goodness and old school jump up ish on the latest instalment of Todd's "Preset" show on RBMA Radio here.

Bonus: Resident Advisor's review of "Osborne"

Hailed by many as the freshest voice to emerge in the last decade of soul music, L.A. songstress Georgia Anne Muldrow is planning to disclose her early body of work (pre-"Worthnothings", that is) on an album under the moniker Young G, due out in fall 2008. Here's a first track, snatched off a Look Records promotional sampler, that made its rounds at this year's Midem. Obviously recorded at quite a young age. And obviously quite dope, as well.

More of the good stuff to come along your way later this year: a new G&D compilation called "SomeOthaShip Connect" on Mello Music, a Dudley Perkins EP and DVD documentary, an album by p-funkster Quazedelic on ePistrophik Peach Sound, and a new Dudley Perkins studio joint on Look, both produced by Georgia Anne Muldrow.

Watch the lecture video by G and D here.
Hear them performing live at the Manifesto Soul Showcase in Toronto here.

Lukewarm all-roads-lead-to-Rome jokes aside, there's plenty of Academy luminaries gathering in Italy's capital for the Dissonanze festival this weekend. Traditionally an Italo-Gallic Village for the good and true-hearted, the main floor at the Palazzo dei Congressi is solidly crowded with Detroit legends (Model 500, Carl Craig) and current techno posterboys from Cobblestone Jazz and Switch to Booka Shade and Loco Dice. Meanwhile the Terrace will see showcases by Alexander Robotnik, Francisco, Daniele Baldelli, and Rodion on Friday, as well as DJ Nuts, J.Rocc, Joao Parahyba, Tony Allen, and Jackson Conti (aka Madlib and Mamao, who released their collective Sujinho LP recently) on Saturday.

For full program - there's space for all things avantgarde from Ryoji Ikeda's audio-visual experimentation to Deadbeat's digital dub sculptures, too - and last minute tickets, click here.

For all of those, who can't make their way to Roma (there might be one or two...), selected shows will be recorded and broadcasted on Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

Revamp, what it do? Our friends over at Fact have posted a new mix by The Count & Sinden in celebration of the recent relaunch of their website. Okay, all of this might have happened centuries ago, according to internet standards. But it's never too late for a solid mixture of Lil Weezy extravaganza, unofficial "Beeper" remixes, and Toddla T pre-releases, innit?