Like you missed it on, you know, everywhere…. Micheal Jackson (BBC, NY Times, Guardian, NME.com) turns out not to be guilty after all. Wonder if he’s going to start issuing libel lawsuits against people like liquidgeneration.com?

In other news, Green Day are asking fans to star in a DVD. If you have .bittorrent, then you’re probably better off (legally, I think!) downloading this DVD of Green Day’s MTV Storytellers performance (American Idiot in its entirety – registration required).

Download this week’s Tartan Podcast. Go oooon, you know you want to.

The Guardian appreciate Malcolm Middleton’s apparently ‘odd combination of summer sounds and wrist-slashing words [which] initially sounds like a poet of doom at the karaoke’. I am going buy this album. And the Moaners’ record too, that sounds awesome, yeah!

Mogwai are recording a new record. Yippee! I was listening to Come On Die Young the other night, and realised that I’d forgotten just how great this band is, with their quiet, mathematical noodling and MIND SHATTERINGLY LOUD BITS. What a combo.

Oh, and tickets for live8 in Edinburgh are available via a text lottery now. What’s the link? I’m not telling you, I want them for myself… now to text for the 78th time…

A late addition – blatantly stolen from the largehearted boy, but good enough I thought to share…a link to the White Stripes performance at Atlanta’s Music Midtown…