• Greg Dulli is forgoing record labels and going direct to indie retail for his next record, Amber Headlights, reports Billboard.com today. The initial run of 5,000 units will be sold via his web store, Junketboy (the distribution arm of CIMS) and online stores like Amazon.com. Dulli's manager describe self-distribution as "multi-faceted." The arrangement goes to show how times have changed in the music supply chain. A relatively established indie artist can cut out middlemen and work directly with retailers and distribution agents like Junketboy. Is this another signal of labels' impeding demise? Not just yet. Dulli and others who take this route are cashing in on long careers, industry knowledge and a dedicated, predictable fanbase. Labels, I know you're not worried but don't fret just yet. New, green, inexperienced artists still need to be found and cultivated.

• The Charlotte Observer has a profile of the String Cheese Incident and its Sci Fidelity Records (home to Keller Williams, Umphrey's McGee and New Monsoon).

• Has a music critic ever been so stalked by a blogger? Vinyl Mine Clip Shack has a thing for FoC Josh du Lac of the Washington Post. Coolfer suggests a restraining order or a wedding ring. Pretty funny, Josh called Coldplay listeners "medium dull" in an article. Is that a take on Medium Cool?

• Vice Records' Death From Above 1979 are on tour with Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age. The band has a remix album, Romance Bloody Romance, coming out November 22nd. Yes, Vice just put out a Bloc Party remix album, and it's doing fairly well. It's pretty high on the electronic music album chart -- although it doesn't take a whole helluva lot to achieve that feat these days. Here, have a free download of DFA1979's song "Romantic Rights" from their album You're A Woman, I'm A Machine. Happy Friday.