More than their prettified chillwave peers, Neon Indian sound like they recorded their particular brand of hazy, jittery synthpop after an all-night bender on Sega Genesis and Mountain Dew. So it kind of makes sense that Mountain Dew's internet record label Green Label Sound is set to release a new Neon Indian jam into the world.

The label announced on their site yesterday that they'll release an exclusive Neon Indian single as a free download next month. It'll be the first new Neon Indian material we've heard this year. Green Label Sound has already released free mp3s from artists like Matt and Kim, the Cool Kids, and Chromeo.

Related: Have you guys tried that Mountain Dew Game Fuel stuff yet? Terrible name, but that shit is really good. Best New Sodas.

Add Wilco to the list of artists pitching in to help raise money for Haitian earthquake relief. Recently, the band took to their website to post recordings of two live shows (including the show from last July at Brooklyn's Keyspan Park that included live collaborations with Feist, Yo La Tengo, and Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste). You can download the shows for free, but the band is asking that you donate at least $15 to Oxfam or Doctors Without Borders in return. Check it out right here.

After the jump, we've got more news of musicians raising money for Haiti.

-- Drowned in Sound reports that Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth is auctioning off a glockenspiel and donating the money to Haitian relief efforts. Gareth's got a funny rant about why he wants to get rid of the thing.

-- On February 9, the Minnesota rap label Rhymesayers Entertainment will hold a benefit show at the Minneapolis club First Avenue. Slug of Atmosphere will host, and performers will include Brother Ali, Freeway and Jake One, Sage Francis and B. Dolan,...

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-- Artists such as Clinic, Four Tet, Pram, and Can's Damo Suzuki have contributed rare and unreleased material to Music for a Good Home, a benefit compilation for anti-homelessness charity Shelter. It's limited to 300 CD copies, but you can also buy it digitally.

-- The Voodoo Experience festival will go down in New Orleans this weekend, October 30-November 1. The list of artists playing is pretty huge and insane: Eminem and D12, KISS, Jane's Addiction, Justice, the Flaming Lips, Ween, the Black Keys, Drive-By Truckers, Black Lips, Cool Kids, and the Pogues will all be on hand, as well as a whole lot of others.

-- The Performa 09 art festival will come to various New York venues November 1-22. The series of inter-disciplinary events will feature performances from a vast spectrum of avant garde types, including Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Mike Patton, Pauline Oliveros, Fischerspooner, Genesis P-Orridge, Arto Lindsay, Jad Fair, and John Zorn.

-- On November 10, scuzzed-up Jesus and Mary Chain disciples Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will release Live, their imaginatively titled one-CD/two-DVD live set. BRMC will release Live on their own Abstract Dragon label, via Vagrant.

Clipse may prefer rapping about moving vast quantities of white powder and the Cool Kids may care more about their bikes, but these two duos have a few things in common. They both rap in flat, affectless voices, like they could not possibly be impressed by anything you might tell them. The both like stark, apocalyptic beats. They both seem to play a lot of shows with shoe company sponsors. And, most importantly for this particular news story, they both get it done onstage, Clipse especially.

This August and September, Malice, Pusha T, Mikey Rocks, and Chuck Inglish will play a quick run of North American dates together. And both groups also have shows booked on their own. Click below for everyone's dates.

Clipse / Cool Kids:

08-12 Dallas, TX - Granada
08-15 Las Vegas , NV - LAX
08-16 Pomona, CA - Glass House
08-17 Los Angeles, CA - House Of Blues
08-18 San Diego, CA - Canes
08-23 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews
08-25 Grand Rapids, MI - Intersection
08-26 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
08-27 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
08-28 Boston, MA - Paradise
08-31 Richmond, VA - National
09-01 Norfolk, VA - Norva
09-03 Oxford, OH - Brick Street Bar

Clipse:

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-- Ever wonder what James Mercer of the Shins dreams about at night? The blog Mimi and Honey has the answer. And before you ask, yes, it does involve Mercer fighting a giant gorilla.

-- NME reports that the British producer Jonny Dollar, who manned the boards on Massive Attack's classic Blue Lines album, died of cancer this past weekend in London. He was 45.

--On June 15, Drag City will reissue remastered versions of three out-of-print 70s albums from Pentangle guitarist and Scottish folk legend Bert Jansch. L.A. Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon, and A Rare Conundrum will all be available on CD for the first time, and Jansch himself picked the bonus tracks for all three. Jansch will also tour the U.S. this summer. The dates are up here.

-- NXNE, Canada's slightly colder answer to SXSW, will take over venues all around Toronto June 17-21. No Age, Black Lips, Matt and Kim, Cool Kids, GZA, HEALTH, King Khan and BBQ Show, These Are Powers, and Crystal Antlers are among those taking part.