* Flavorpill’s Winter Music Conference Guide gives you inside peeks to the WMC and what to watch for, here’s a great event that gets our seal as well , Stones Throw presenting Hella International with DJs Madlib, PB Wolf and more..

* There’s a new posthumous J Dilla album out and Spencer Owen from Mog has a review.

* A new (?) Bonde de Role track on Batteria Ricaricabile and an awesome complete show on Lullabyes

* Chez Lubacov has an Aloe Blacc 7″ (Stones Throw artist) called About Love online

* 2 Amy Winehouse songs on The Passion of the Weiss.

* Lots of Nouvelle Vague covers on Blank Forever.

* National Geographic has a 4 page Hiphop history feature called Hiphop Planet (thanx to Wozniak @ MOG)

* Efterklang on Music is Art.

* Arabic musician Hasna El Becharia on Man Behind Electronica.

* A few tracks from an odd Electronic pop album by Komeda on Comfort Music.