Yes, that's will.i.am, Yoko Ono, Natasha Bedingfield, and the guy from Train. Supergroup! And after the jump, we've got a preview of the bizarre benefit single they've cut to raise awareness of the importance of musical education.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that later today, MTV Networks will announce that it's merging its digital-music store into a joint venture with RealNetworks, the company that runs Rhapsody; the venture will also have mobile content, which will be distributed by Verizon Wireless. This move probably spells the end for Urge, MTV's blog-filled partnership with Microsoft that launched last year to great fanfare, only to be promptly forgotten about once Bill Gates and comapny got distracted by a shiny 
As you might expect, the guy who posted his Zune tattoo on the Internet has been getting no shortage of crap all day. But never fear—one of the members of the Zune team is going to give him something for his troubles!
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Today's Wall Street Journal takes a look at musicians who use that concert-going scourge—the mobile phone—in their pieces, thus making the prospect of leaving the "ringer on" switch at shows at least a little bit less embarrassing for rude concertgoers. One of the composers profiled by the Journal is Bora Yoon, whose delicate cellphone-voice-handclap piece "Plinko" is currently streaming from her MySpace page. As it turns out, Yoon's creative juices only really get flowing around a particular brand of cell phone:
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