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-- You know this whole Twitter thing is getting out of hand when artists are using the text-speak social-messaging thing to report show cancellations. Credit Lady Sovereign with breaking that particular barrier; Visa complications have forced the tiny Brit rapper to push back her quick run of small-venue U.S. shows. (Via Brooklyn Vegan.) Not announced via Twitter: the rescheduled dates, which are on her MySpace.

-- Freak-folk freak James Jackson Toth apparently takes his stage-name cues from Diddy these days, if not ODB. After making about a billion records under his Wooden Wand name, Toth switched to his actual government title for last year's Waiting in Vain. Toth now has a new handle, WAND, and he'll release two new records under that name before summer hits. On March 31, Toth's Mad Monk label, in association with the Olympia label People in a Position to Know, will drop the vinyl-only Born Bad LP. And he'll also release the elaborately titled Hard Knox or "Are You Sure Hank Jr. Done It This Way?": Home Recordings and Demos 1999-2007 via Ecstatic Peace on May 21. Toth's also working hard on the official Waiting in Vain follow-up with Big Star producer Jon Tiven.

-- Now that the ridiculously catchy single "That's Not My Name" is all over basically every show on TV, wiry British dance-poppers the Ting Tings have planned out a pretty big U.S. tour that'll run through March and April.

-- Hard-to-Google Scottish post-punkers 1990s will release Kicks, their sophomore album, on March 24 (March 23 in the UK) via Rough Trade. Ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler serves as producer, and ex-Long Blondes singer Kate Jackson guests on one song.