• The Guardian's Sam Wollaston says of No Direction Home, the Bob Dylan documentary, "it's wonderful, a remarkable knitting together of a lot of tangled strands into a thing of sense and beauty." Hard to argue.

• Pharrel Williams (Neptunes, N.E.R.D.) will release a solo album under the name Skate Board P. (Pause) Sales potential dropped 56% from the beginning of that sentence to its end.

• World Leader Pretend, a New Orleans band who released an album on Warner Bros. earlier this year, will perform on NBC News' Today Show as part of the "Make a Difference Today" hurricane relief program. On Thursday the 29th the band will perform at noon at Rockefeller Plaza. On Friday the 30th they'll have an 8:30am interview and performance on The Today Show. This is one helluva young band. Keep an eye on them.

• For whatever reason, the announcement of a track listing passes for news these days. So here you go, have fun: Madonna has finalized her track listing for her upcoming album Confessions on a Dancefloor.

• Mile Davis was a featured article at Wikipedia yesterday. It's a fine entry. Nice that Wiki broke it up into his various period (early life, bebop and the birth of the cool, first quintet and sextet, etc.).