It’s a reg’lar Björk-a-palooza over here!

In an attempt to consolidate all of the new information pouring in from press releases (okay, mostly just one whopper of a press release), I’ve put together all of the latest information on Björk’s forthcoming album, Biophilia.

To begin, the Biophilia campaign will roll out in five pieces:

(A) The album, a 10-track collection which will be released later this year in physical and digital form.

(B) The apps, a set of 10 individual apps to be released in July that were created by the industry’s leading developers (including the guy behind Sim City!) for users to individually manipulate every Biophilia track for “educational and game purposes.”

Since I couldn’t possibly summarize this, please enjoy this in-depth explanation of each of the apps:

Every app has its own theme (in connection with its corresponding song) and combines a natural element with a musicological feature. The layers of content in each app include: an interactive game based on the song’s scientific and musical subject matter, a musical animation of the song, an animated score, lyrics, and an academic essay. The game enables the user to interact with musical elements of the song and to learn about different musical features while creating their own version; the musical animation and animated music score bring together conventional and innovative ways of representing music visually; and the academic essay explores the ideas behind each song and app and how they are realized musically.

The Biophilia Apps have been developed with a team chosen by Björk, comprising ten of the most groundbreaking and commercially successful app developers working today. The team is lead by Scott Snibbe Studio, creator of the bestselling apps Gravilux and Bubble Harp, and includes the creator of Sim City, TouchPress (pioneering designers behind the two top grossing apps Elements and Solar System), and a host of award winning designers, animators and leading experts in coding and encryption.

(C) The live performances, which will carry out as “a three-year world tour of six-week residencies in eight different cities” (!!!) in which the Icelandic superstar performs Biophilia in its entirety twice a week to a crowd of less than 2,000 per venue (which will be “specially chosen spaces and museums, rather than traditional music venues”).

The performances will employ such custom-made new instruments as “a 10-foot pin barrel harp called the Sharpsichord, a midi-controlled pipe organ and celeste (re-fitted with bronze gamelan bars), twin musical tesla coils, a hang player and an award-winning 24-piece Icelandic female choir.” When she’s not performing, she’ll be giving regular educational workshops at local schools.

Above is the aforementioned “midi-controlled pipe organ,” The Gameleste, which will be used during the upcoming live shows. I’m also nearly positive this is the crystal-like instrument being used on lead single, “Crystalline.”

From the video’s description:

Björk commissioned several custom instruments for the shows surrounding the release of ‘Biophilia’ – one is a hybrid gamelan celeste; the original steel bars of a vintage orchestral celeste were replaced with bronze tonebars hand-made by UK cymbalsmith Matt Nolan, and the instrument was rebuilt and MIDIfied by Iceland’s top organ-maker, Björgvin Tòmasson.

(D) The documentary, a 90-minute feature that will track the creative process and evolution of the Biophilia era is due to air later into the campaign.

(E) The new official website, which has been designed as “a unique immersive 3D galaxy with versions that can be enjoyed on almost all devices.”

The campaign’s lead single “Crystalline” (which I Muused about earlier this week) is officially available on iTunes worldwide today, and will soon be accompanied by a Michel Gondry-directed clip. The acclaimed French director is one of Björk’s most frequent collaborators, responsible for videos including “Army of Me,” “Jóga” and “Declare Independence.”

Tonight, Björk will be premiering the first of her live shows in support of Biophilia during her residency at the Manchester International Festival for the next three weeks.

Frankly, I’m exhausted just reading about this campaign. It’s a MONSTER! After planning out all the venues, instrument designs and app developers, it’s a wonder she even had the time to step into a studio–let alone write a song!

All that being said: Good luck tonight, Lady B! I can’t wait to see/hear/experience/love it up!

“Crystalline” was released worldwide this week. (iTunes)

Behold: The official DJ Frank E & Alex Dreamz remix video for Godney‘s third Femme Fatale single, “I Wanna Go”!

According to JustJared, this is one of the two official remixes commissioned for “I Wanna Go” which will be released later this month. (I say: Release the damn remixes already!)

The remix is good–not amazing, and there’s hardly anything different about the video apart from a few scene mix ‘n’ matches and a yellowish hue.

That being said…any excuse to re-watch the clip and listen to “I Wanna Go” again, right?

2011: YEAR OF THE SPEARS.

Wutchu know about Eric Saade?

Saade is the adorkable Swede who represented his home country in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, placing 3rd overall (Sweden’s highest placing since ’99!) with the gleefully campy synth-pop fest, “Popular”.

Now, the “Manboy” (don’t ask, just click) is back for more with “Hearts In The Air (feat. J-Son).”

The single–which just smashed into the Sweden charts at #2 two weeks ago–is Saade’s first from his second studio album, Saade Vol. 1, which was just released yesterday.

“Hearts In The Air” kind of sounds like everything Top 40 electro-R&B/pop right now, from Taio Cruz to fellow Swede Darin. It’s also a self-empowerment anthem (“Put your hearts in the air / You gotta love being you!”), which is kind of like everything that Top 40 is all about right now, from Katy Perry‘s “Firework” to Ke$ha‘s “We R Who We R.”

Still, there’s a distinctly Swedish, Kleerup-ian kind of electronica undercurrent within “Hearts In The Air” that makes Saade’s new single just a cut above the rest of the radio riffraff.

So don’t be a fool…put your hearts in the air!

“Hearts In The Air (feat. J-Son)” was released on June 3. (iTunes Sweden)

CLUTCH YOUR PEARLS, DARLING.

The legendary Countess LuAnn de Lesseps is back.

The 46-year old chanteuse of Real Housewives of New York fame (a personal favorite on the show, along with Kelly Bensimon) first burst onto the dance music scene with the impossibly amazing “Money Can’t Buy You Class” in 2010: A dragulicious, Auto-Tune-tastic speak-sung cautionary tale dedicated to every horrid hostess and humorless bore who dared to cross the Countess–the definition of classy sassy, if you will.

Yesterday, the Countless released the “Chic C’Est La Vie” EP to iTunes, which includes a Moroccan mix (ya habibi, bitches!) and a big fat club mix by L Fontana and G Newman.

“Beauty, class and elegance lie within the soul / Money, power and romance are waiting for us all,” the legendary LuAnn enunciates; the sweet trill of crisp Bravo dollars being stuffed into a Gucci clutch ringing out after each over-emphasized syllable on top of the bouncing beat (which doesn’t sound too far from Katy Perry‘s “California Gurls.”)

Note: I don’t mean to compare the Countess LuAnn to Katy Perry. “Money Can’t Buy You Class” alone literally shits on Perry’s entire discography. (Pardon my French, Countess! Still learning to control mon elegahnce.)

Earlier this morning, the video premiered on AOL’s PopEater–just in time for the song’s release to iTunes. Watch as LuAnn, Kelly and Jill Zarin (and none of the other Housewives because they are jealous haters) get positively nutty at The Borgata in Atlantic City, gallivanting ’round the casino, toasting to life at the pool and just generally getting funky in a hip (read: desolate) club!

Fierce, flawless dance moves. Unparalleled energy. Your favorites could literally NEVER!!!

ALL HAIL QUEEN COUNTESS LUANN.

“Chic C’Est La Vie” was released on June 28. (iTunes)

If you’re anything like me (God help your soul), you kept it tuned in on the weekly for the latest nail-biting season of RuPaul’s Drag Race on LOGO as Raja eagerly snatched the crown for Queen of Season 3.

So what’s a girl to do once the fairy dust settles and the pageantry officially begins? Why, release a dance single of course!

“Diamond Crowned Queen” is Raja’s debut single, which was released on May 3.

While the original mix of the song always played a little bit too, err…erratic for my taste (yes, erratic–let’s go with that), the newly released remix by MuuMuse friend Prince Vince is nothing but pure sweat and sex (for dinner!)

Prince Vince’s take on the track will have you sweating off your falsies and fanning yourself with your chicken cutlets in five seconds flat, featuring a slew of deep, throbbing beats and sexy stabs of electronica–a delish club dish for certain!

So come with me all you thunder-breathing dragons and get into the mix!

OFFICIAL Raja – Diamond Crowned Queen (Prince Vince Remix) by Prince Vince

“Diamond Crowned Queen” was released on May 3. (iTunes)

The legend, the superstar, the icon that is CHER took to Twitter to answer some fan questions last night.

And although most of her tweets are unintelligible combinations of exclamation marks, excessive spaces, and a dialect of internet speak known only by Cher, she tweeted loud and clear in regards to upcoming music:

New album ( So Old school) is WAY DANCE !

She went on to doubly confirm that she is recording both a new single and album, as well as a duet with her mother. (!)

Cher’s tweet Q&A negates prior rumors of a country or rock-tinged album (thank you baby Jesus), clearing the way for a brand new takeover of the dance floor.

Are you ready? Because I’m literally not. I mean, “Believe.” “A Song For The Lonely.” “The Music’s No Good Without You.” Nope. Not even slightly emotionally prepared.

FOLLOW THIS, YOU BITCHES.

Today, my bloody valentine Natalia Kills releases the third single off of her forthcoming debut album Perfectionist: “Free.”

Produced by Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West) and co-penned by Kills, Kid Cudi and No I.D., “Free” is one of the most fun, breezy songs off of Kills’ long awaited debut that, most importantly, contains the objectively perfect pop line: “I can look fresh in a potato sack.”

Natalia Kills – Free (feat will.i.am) by CherrytreeRecords

The single version also contains an opening verse by Will.I.Cannot.. It’s nothing too grating, but…you know. I just can’t.

“Free” was released on June 28. (iTunes)