Digital Digest: Pink Floyd, Dot to Dot, Twitter and more

Pink Floyd’sDark Side of the Moon is the greatest album cover of all time according to a Music Radar poll. Some other sites have met the news by announcing their alternative results – Gigwise being one. They rated Pink Floyd’s in 13th place, and had a top three comprising of the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the B****cks, Uriah HeepVery Eavy Very Umble, with the winner being Nirvana’sNevermind.

Off the back of The Great Escape, Dot to Dot is the next big festival in the diary pushing new talent – and Clash have just launched their partnership with the event. Taking place in Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol over the second May Bank Holiday weekend, Road To Dot To Dot will provide you with interviews, free songs, DJ mixes and videos from some of the bands and artists who'll be performing including Guillemots, The Naked And Famous, Dananananaykroyd and more. 



Later with Jools Holland continues to be a big hit within the online community. Last week it was James Blake, while this week all the chat is about the original internet hypesters – Arctic Monkeys. The band performed four new tracks on the programme, and The NJ Underground again had their view on the new material. 



Berlin based producer Siriusmo is to release a double CD of B-sides, rarities and previously vinyl-only tracks on Monkeytown Records. Called Pearls and Embarrassments, Moritz Friedrich has just had his second album released on Modeselektor and Data Transmission have the details.



Karl Lagerfeld has made a new short film available to stream on Vevo. Following up from 2010’s Remember Now, the fashion icon again delves into the annual Chanel Cruise starring a host of models, in The Tale of a Fairy. 



After The Quietus’ fantastic guest blog last week, which gave an insight into the amazing ways Twitter can be used as a tool in music, two other stories have surfaced to its alternative uses. Firstly, Lady Gaga has accrued her 10-millionth follower, making her more influential on the social networking site than Barack Obama, who has a mere 8-million.

And Rihanna has re-followed ex-lover Chris Brown. After a highly publicised break up, one of the Umbrella singer’s fans asked if the two were an item again, at which point she lashed back saying: “It’s Twitter, not the alter.”