Welcome, the internet, to another exciting edition of New Music Friday. Ready for more free music in your Zune? First up this week, Dodge at MOKB has an interview and 4 MP3s from Grizzly Bear Next up, The Big Sleep Rock Cleveland Buzz-worthy band The Warlocks have an MP3 at 3Hive . Head over to Chromewaves for a pair of Dog Day MP3s Aquarium Drunkard has an MP3 by Irish Rock Legends The Pogues . For fans of Hip Hop, check out the new mixtape: R.O.C. All-Stars: The Street Leak at Different Kitchen...

As part of the expanded Zune 80 availability plan we’ve set in place, we’re featuring Zune 80 in the Zune Originals site starting today. I'm told the first order was placed at 3:38 AM PST. In case you need it here’s a quick refresher on Zune Originals : Zune worked with 18 accomplished artists from all over the world to create a collection of 27 different designs, called the Artist Series. A separate Tattoo Series will feature 20 graphics that you can have laser-engraved on their your Zune with up...

Kudos to the Zune community for taking the idea of “you make it you” to the next level – folks in the community have found a way to customize the Zune background on the Zune software. Get the details at I Have a Zune dot com or at ‘ thoughts . <Edit Thursday AM> - There's some back and forth in the comments as to where this trick came from, but I think it's safe to give credit to 'Boards for this one.

I had meant to post about this a few weeks back but with all the launching, posting, and Turkey I’m just getting around to it now. You may have noticed that we’re able to feature the Jay-Z record American Gangster (both for purchase or for subscription download). To get the album, we had to respect the artist’s choice to offer only the full album (vs selling individual tracks). In the case of American Gangster , the album stands as a unified piece of art, with all tracks weaving a cohesive narrative...