One of my buddies on the Zune team, Hoop , dishes details on what it's like to work on the Zune team - check the interview here . ( Hoop, holding the special employee Zune we all got )

. . . it's still Friday somewhere, right? Anyone? Ok, maybe not. Well, let's just get to the music then, I suppose. Click through to the blog link and get the track, and if you want to learn more about the artist, click the page in the Social: First up this week 'tracks has a track by Faith No More And for fans of indie rock, My Old Kentucky Blog has a few Beach House mp3s. Enjoy! Put on your dancing shoes and head over to Arjan Writes to pick up a track that Steve Aoki remixes Head over to Stereogum...

Check out Zune Marketplace this week for an eclectic pairing of free tracks. The first is a dance track "Crimewave" by Crystal Castles . And for fans of African music, check out "méRua," part of the Garifuna Women's Project . From the description on their Social page: "Garifuna music has elements of African, Caribbean, and Native American music, in particular the soca of Trinidad, the reggae of Jamaica, and the rhythms of Cuba." Both tracks are free and available for download now.

Go behind the scenes on Piece of Me, Piece of You , an upcoming Zune-Arts film in the latest Zune Arts podcast. In the podcast, Greg, Reza and Casey of Three Legged Legs show how it takes "collaboration, innovation and copious amounts of felt to turn near life-sized puppets, created by artist Adam Parker Smith , into mad, pop-locking zombies." The podcast features music by Chromeo