Last Christmas Eve, singer Amanda Palmer posted a message on her blog: "If you hadn't noticed, all of the Dresden Dolls and Amanda Palmer official videos have been taken off YouTube. I loved my videos. Now they are gone...Did I mention that being on a major label is starting to seem like...not such a grand idea?"

As SPIN.com readers know, Christina Aguilera has recruited Aussie solo artist and Zero 7 singer Sia Furler for her next album.

They say that actions speak louder than words, and judging from the video for Zero 7 vocalist-gone-solo Sia's "Soon We'll Be Found," she takes that maxim quite literally: Her action is to sign all the lyrics as she sings them.

Ladies of the World Unite!

With lively sets from the Killers, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, the Whigs, Man Man, and many others, this past weekend at Philadelphia's Download 2008 event was certainly stirring.

Like Tim Armstrong and Pink, Gwen Stefani and the Neptunes, and many other seemingly mismatched musical pairings, Sia and Christina Aguilera will join forces, with Sia lending her songwriting skills -- and buckets of much-needed depth, humanity, and indie cred -- to the soulful pop diva's forthcoming record.