Janet Jackson and Daft Punk go about as well together as cheese and pancakes. Yet a quick glance at your local Pancake Parlour menu will tell you that plenty of people actually prefer cheese (and potato, and ham, and pineapple…) on their pancakes just as Janet Jackson has sampled Daft Punk in her new song “So Much Betta”. So Janet follows the path led by Busta Rhymes, will.i.am and Kanye West by dropping beats from the French electro powerhouse in her latest single. And you thought Daft Punk fever left with Nevereverland! Which leads us to ask the question, who will be next to sample Daft Punk? Radiohead? Ying Yang Twins? The Veronicas? All three and more? Probably.

Who doesn’t dig Nick Cave? For over twenty years he hasn’t stopped reincarnating himself for us, from his rebellious punk days in The Birthday Party to the brilliant noise that is Grinderman. And with “DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!!” the new Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album set for release on March 3, Australia and the rest of the sane world are digging their heels into the ground barely able to control their excitement! (Enough with the “dig” puns now, I promise).
If you were told any ordinary rock band like Nickelback (if you can call that rock) or Franz Ferdinand were going to produce thirteen (count it, thir-teen) studio albums you’d probably be running to the door scratching at the handle screaming “LET ME OUT BEFORE MY EARS COMBUST AND TURN INTO NOVELTY EAR-SHAPED ERASERS”, but instead Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have us hoping that thirteen goes on fourteen, goes on fifteen… and so on. You can sample the delectable first single on the band’s official website or check out the video on youtube. The aesthetics of the clip are a cross between that music video you made in Year 11 Media that you filmed in your mate’s garage and some kind of low budget eighties movie that went straight to VHS, but my god Cave can make anything look cool.

DIG IT!