The Zincs on tour (Jan. '06)

The Zincs, aka James Elkington who's a former member of Sophia, will be doing a European tour in support of Freakwater. The Zincs recently released a new album on Thrill Jockey called Dimmer. The tour will take them to the UK, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Serbia and Switzerland. Kazachstan seems to have been overlooked again.
Anyway, check out all the tour dates right here.

Alexperimental

Some French guy, who writes music under the Alexperimental alias, wrote a new track in which he samples the drum part of Sophia's 'If Only' (a track from The Infinite Circle). He wrote a blog entry about the track right here.
If you want to listen to the track itself, you can check out his radioblog here. It's not bad at all, I must say.