• Here's a fun thread for you: Terrible band names that affected sales. Some of the mentioned: Huffamoose, Dixie Dregs, The Dayglo Abortions, Endaswap, Fannypack, Treadmill Trackstar. (The Velvet Rope)

• In Coolfer's honest opinion, eMusic's catalog lags in the electronic department. So it's nice to see this month's electronic column, Minimal Techno by Philip Sherburne. The weekly email highlights new electronic albums, and they're all by great artists: Gas, Milosh, Stewert Walker, Dntel, Thomas Fehlmann and Solvent. This month's featured album: Basic Channel's incredible BCD.

• In an email from Ulrich Schnauss, the electronic artist/producer says he appears on a song on the new album by French singer Celine. Also, his next album is "mostly finished" and he will "continue to look for a suitable record label."

• Looks like Billboard.com started a blog called the Jaded Insider last month. Coolfer happened across it today. It definitely has that "corporate blog" look and feel.