We still find it a bit disconcerting to see Jack White wearing regular colors. Thank goodness the new video for "Salute Your Solution," from the band's Consolers of the Lonely (out today), is in black and white. Check out the riff-tastic tune below:

Also of note: Brit rock mag NME just announced plans to hold its annual awards in the U.S. for the first time. Chances are the acceptance speeches will remain just as unintelligible.

XM and Sirius may be getting today's biggest headlines, but even their merger won't give them the reach of a little Paris-based Web outfit that dropped a passkey into our inbox this a.m. Awdio.com offers live streaming broadcasts from clubs and venues across the world, from San Francisco to Bangkok, Munich to Melbourne. Already today we've sampled the house soundtrack blaring in Paris fashion boutique Colette and a little laid-back Latin groove from a London bossa nova lounge. The site is in well-deserved beta phase (i.e., it don't work 100 percent right) and the English it eez a little bit comique, but hearing concerts and parties in São Paulo (and in real time) is just too damn cool. Now if only you could get it in your car.

Customized Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers aren't exactly an original concept, but these new models from ArtGuitar certainly turn it up to 11. They sport thrasher-friendly hand-painted designs—featured bands include Pantera, Skynyrd, and Megadeth—and they're built from actual Peaveys. They also cost 400 bucks, which means they're either a top-of-the-line video game accessory or a waste of a decent guitar.

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Sometimes, Hotmail (or Facebook, or any other outage-prone site) just won't load. For those occasions, there's the new Downforeveryoneorjustme.com, which is devoted to answering its titular question. One obvious question: What do you do if it goes down? Well, they thought of that, too.

In the new documentary Garbage Warrior, Taos-based architect Michael Reynolds—who'd been stripped of his license in the U.S. for building off-the-grid Earthship communities out of recycled tires, bottles, and beer cans—asks the New Mexico state legislature to donate a bit of land for testing sustainable housing methods. Their response: Much filibustering, and even a little sleeping, all of which is deftly juxtaposed with Reynolds taking his team to India's Andaman and Nicobar islands to teach tsunami victims how to build eco-friendly (and storm-resistant) homes of their own. Provocative stuff, and New Yorkers can check it out tonight at Lincoln Center. Everyone else will have to be patient: The film kicks off the second season of the Sundance Channel's The Green series April 1.
Garbage Warrior premieres March 25, 6:30 p.m., at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, filmlinc.com, and April 1 on the Sundance Channel, 9:35 p.m., garbagewarrior.com.

Chuck Close usually works on a grand scale, but his latest project required a canvas exponentially smaller: a wine label, to be exact. The artist produced the label for Musée, a new limited-edition bottling by Bedell Cellars, the Long Island winery owned by New Line Cinema cofounder Michael Lynne. (Oh, and if you actually care about the contents, the vintage is a heady blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Petit Verdot, all harvested from Bedell's estate-grown vineyards on the North Fork.) For the label, Close made an old-fashioned daguerreotype of a grape cluster. If it seems a little beneath an artist of his stature, consider that he's in good company—Eric Fischl, Barbara Kruger, and Ross Bleckner have all designed labels for the brand. He also lives (ahem) close by in Bridgehampton.
Bedell Cellars Musée, $65, bedellcellars.com