Not brand new but definitely worth checking out for those of you who haven’t is Stones Throw‘s Chrome Children compilation, released in 2006 and featuring the likes of Madlib, MF Doom, J Dilla, Oh No, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Dudley Perkins, and many more of the label’s stars.

Stones Throw released several videos to coincide with the comp, a few of which are now at xlr8r.com, including J Dilla‘s “Nothing Like This,” Madlib‘s “Take It Back,” and “Monkey Suite” by Madvillain.

See them and more at XLR8R‘s Video Section.

Madlib: “Take It Back”

J Dilla: “Nothing Like This”

Madvillain: “Monkey Suite”

The multi-talented Norweigan songwriter/painter/illustrator Milenasong first garnered attention when Monika Enterprise picked up her 10″ “Can’t Tape Forever,” and finally the debut album for this renaissance woman is set to follow.

Milenasong is hardly bashful about her ability to juggle multiple instruments and musical styles on Seven Sisters. She’ll drift from minimal acoustics and drums to traditionally structured songs accompanied by woodwinds and harmonies with disturbing ease, before veering into psychedelic experiments featuring bleeps and warped vocals. Fans of all things eclectic, take note, and don’t forget to check out her visual artistry on her website.

Seven Sisters is out February 6, 2007 on Monika Enterprise.

Tracklisting
1. Sara
2. Casey On Fire
3. Thirty
4. Nightlost Trains
5. Lily Wyatt
6. Something Else
7. Love Feel You Do
8. Figs Tree
9. How Ode
10. Seventeentwentysix
11. Standby
12. All This Beautiful Light

For the last decade, London’s Photographic Youth Musical Culture Archive (PYMCA) gallery has documented global youth cultures from the 60’s to the present, focusing on the music and fashion that has shaped these movements. For its latest exhibition, Hair Today…Gone Tomorrow, the trendy gallery turns to another element of such cultures, namely hairstyles. Beginning this month Londoners can witness the changing do’s of the world’s youth culture, from 60’s mod styles to mohawks.

The gallery’s upstairs room will feature the exhibition Youth Music Culture, exploring 5 decades of musical subcultures. The mods, punks, skinheads, ska kids, ravers, and hip-hop fans all make an appearance here.

All exhibition pieces are available for purchase as prints from the gallery’s online store.

Hair Today…Gone Tomorrow runs from January 18 – February 16, 2007.

The Opening Night party takes place Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 7pm.

PYMCA Gallery
41 Clerkenwell Road, London

Adult.‘s Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller reverted to being a duo with last year’s departure of Samuel Consiglio, a change that’s evident in their fourth longplayer Why Bother? It’s not that we ever had anything against Consiglio, or 2005’s Gimmie Trouble. But the band’s latest effort feels, as a whole, like a more cohesive unit of work, and emblematic of the duo’s quirky personalities.

Kuperus’s trademark vocals–which consist of half singing and half chanting indecipherable lyrics–remain prominent here, and are accompanied by plenty of minor chords, ominous basslines, and marauding organ interludes that are just plain bizarre. In short, this is deliciously gloomy doom-folk for the dark at heart.

Why Bother? is out March 2007 on Thrill Jockey.

Absinthe parties (at least in the U.S.) are unfortunately still a rare occurrence, but the latest accessory from Sympathy for the Devil might change that by imprinting the drink in the minds of trendsetters through jewelry. The online marketing company is selling the ultimate accessory for absinthe enthusiasts, courtesy of a collaboration between BiJules NYC and Dust La Rock.

“La Feuille d’Absinthe” (French for The Absinthe Leaf) is a silver absinthe spoon necklace that’s as attractive as it is functional, doubling as the actual implement needed for dissolving sugar into the alcohol. And since it would be a faux pas to sport the necklace without knowing a thing about the drink, we hope this new collaboration is the start of many an absinthe party around the country.

“La Feuille d’Absinthe” is available exclusively through Sympathy For The Devil, at Goods Seattle and The Reed Space. Wormwood sold separately.

Now in it’s 22nd year and sans the competition from M3 summit, which is currently on hiatus, Winter Music Conference looks to be throwing in some extra treats for the Miami 2007 edition.

One such bonus is the International Record Collector’s show. Though the world has gone digital and CD sales continue falling like lemmings off a cliff, there’s still a number of purists and crate digging enthusiasts in music today, and a huge number of them flock to the conference each year. Attendees will be able to buy, sell, and trade like any normal record store, preview items before purchase, and sift through vinyl of all genres.

The 1st Annual International Record Collector’s Show takes place on Sunday, March 25 from 12pm – 6pm. WMC badgeholders get in for free, everyone else pays five bones.

Winter Music Conference 2007 takes place March 20 – 25, 2007 at Miami Beach Resort and Spa.