Aa'aand we're back! Today is my first day back at work - the wedding/honeymoon/opening presents was great. It's good to be back, and stay tuned for the Zune news as I have it. Thanks to everybody for the kind words, too. You rock.

Yesterday we announced that we'll be releasing a military exclusive Zune - available exclusively at military retailers. These will be available to military personnel and their families at a special discounted price. Yesterday we partnered with the USO (Microsoft and the USO have a long-standing partnership) for an event at the Baltimore Washington International airport. We gave away 300 devices at BWI,part of a cool care package that we put together for soldiers there. The idea, in large part, came...

Hope everybody had a phenomenal weekend! This is one of my last posts before I'm OTG . It's getting very exciting! So we went three for three with the BBQs - the one in NYC rocked. We had some amazing performances - and I got to see two of my favorite acts of all time: Brand Nubian and LL Cool J: (photo credit Jamie Macias) Blender has a great writeup ; Nah Right has some LL video ; SOHH Latino has a good bit about Joell Ortiz, and our friends at 'Thoughts have a great writeup, too !

Is it still Friday somewhere? Probably not; my bad. But New Music Saturday Friday lives on. Ready for more free music for your Zune? Okletsgo: First up, Aquarium Drunkard has a couple of Thurston Moore tracks . Stereogum has a great premiere this week: soul singer Bettye LaVette featuring Drive By Truckers . Moving onto some indie hip hop, Arjan Writes this week has a new single from Lady Tigra . Check out this John Vanderslice track, over at Chromewaves . Ooh, this right here is sweet: you know...