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Less than a year since Animal Collective

It has to be said that Labrador Records founder and Club 8 member Johan Angergård has an ear for taking the twee melancholia that bleeds from his homeland of Sweden and finding bands that offer intriguing, gorgeous filters through which to pour this anguish. Be it the shoegaze indie of the Radio Dept, the Belle & Sebastian-influenced story-telling of the Acid House Kings (to which Johan also contributes) or, in this case, the Robyn strutting electro pop of Club 8, anyone with a hungry heart must surely have held hands with a Labrador release at some point.

But this is not a one-trick stable or a Robyn homage, not at all. Above the City could be a lost Robyn album but it would be her side step. The moment she went twee electro, as opposed to S&M, leather and Adidas funk. Lead by Karolina Komstedt

Julian House, the man behind those beautifully retro Ghost Box sleeves, is back as The Focus Group with more broken melodies, distorted children

During promo for his forthcoming sci-fi flick After Earth, the long-abdicated Fresh Prince offered some unexpected insights into his current musical endeavours.

“We went in the studio a couple times, so I might get the bug. I’m not going to do it unless I’m truly inspired, but Ye’s been pushing me a little bit”

Watch the chat below in question below. Photos of the pair in the studio previously hit the web back in February; here’s hoping for a return to Smith’s witch house days. West will drop new album Yeezus on June 18 [via Complex]

Things have got ugly between Eminem and social networking megacorp Facebook – and Dr. Dre’s been unwittingly dragged into the mess too.  

As Billboard report, Eminem’s publishing company, Eight Mile Style LLC, has launched a lawsuit against Facebook over alleged copyright infringement. Eight Mile Style is claiming that the social networking site unlawfully copied a vintage Eminem track in an advert for its Facebook Home application. The advert, produced by ad agency Wieden + Kennedy in April, featured music with more than a passing resemblance to The Marshall Mathers LP track ‘Under The Influence’.

The lawsuit states that viewers of the video were quick to comment on the similarities, leading Facebook to hastily re-edit the advert – something the Eight Mile Style team holds up as an implicit admission of guilt. Despite removing the track, Facebook were still issued with a cease and desist order on the grounds that the company had no right to “alter the Eminem/D12 composition.”

The tone of the lawsuit gets increasingly vigorous from here on in, with Eight Mile Style alleging that Facebook and Wieden + Kennedy responded to their cease and desist with some flagrantly false counter-arguments, including the erroneous claim that Dr. Dre had produced the track – something the lawsuit claims is swiftly disproved by a “simple internet search&#822...