Found a dead animal on the side of the road and want to prepare its mangled flesh for dinner? Just pick up B.R. Peterson’s “The Original Roadkill Cookbook.” Want to base your entire diet around a condiment? Check out Paul Hartley’s “Heinz Tomato Ketchup Cookbook.” Bonus: It also contains marmite-centric recipes. Mm, marmite.

Shockingly, one rich niche of cookery was miraculously unplundered–until now. Conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann wisely noted that a book of recipes written to evoke the experience of listening to a symphony did not yet exist.

“Cooking and putting together an orchestra are not all that dissimilar,” Breckenridge Music Festival Maestro and author Zimmermann told “The Summit Daily News.”

“In both, you need a basic ingredient–in the main dinner dish, it could be beef, chicken or fish. Or perhaps just pasta. For the orchestra, that main ingredient or foundation would be the string section. After the all-important decision of the main ingredient, we need to decide on the sauce: white sauce, flute; red sauce, oboe; cream sauce, clarinet; verde sauce, bassoon. You thicken the sauce with butter–lots of butter: piano.”

The zany “Entertaining Summit Style” was printed on a limited run and is only available at shows in Colorado (for now). I find it difficult to accept a universe in which a book that likens the ukulele to broccoli and bells to basil can fail to find a major publisher. Anyone?

Known for her musical experimentation, the English-born, American-bred artist will play select dates across the U.S. over the next few months, including the Monterrey Jazz Fest and SF Jazz.

And if her reggae roots are any sort of surprise to you, rest assured knowing she’s been on that tip for quite some time.

Hip-hop and rap go with gin and juice. Or Cristal. Or Cristal boycotts.

Generally, the rule of thumb is whatever is impossibly glamorous, effervescent, recherché and good going down but bad 12 hours later goes with hip-hop. And you probably can’t afford it, son.

Leave it to a gentleman saddled with the inauspicious nom de guerre Belchie (Branson Belchie, or Branson B.) to make his, er, name, providing hip-hop’s elite and the hordes of hoi palloi that emulate them with the choicest quaffs. It was Branson B. who ushered in the era of Cristal, Taittinger, Clicquot and Dom Perignon, turning the likes of Sean “Diddy” Combs and the Notorious B.I.G. onto the stuff back in the early ’90s.

Now Branson has introduced his own champagne to the world, a heady brew that is as much a product of his Midas marketing touch as his uber-palate. He’s started small, rolling out 100 cases of a blanc de blanc, a brut rosé and a vintage Grand Cru under the label Guy Charlemagne Selected By Branson B. All three earned high marks from “Wine Spectator.”

Branson’s timing couldn’t be better.

After Roederer’s managing director infamously sputtered about hip-hop’s negative effect on Cristal’s reputation as a luxe brand, the scene has sought out a new bubbly to shower its always-hefty payload on. Branson’s vino, moderately priced at $40 a bottle and up, may even be accessible to poseurs.

“I’m not just out for the hype, for 15 minutes of fame,” he told “Imbibe Magazine.” “The champagne needs to stand the test of time; I want the name to be around for 100 years, to create a legacy for my family. I could have high-balled it, but I want every consumer to try it.”

Produced by Sigur Rós’ Kjartan Sveinsson, the album features fellow Icelander and Blonde Redhead contributor Skúli Sverrisson, in addition to Björk. There’s a new video for the first single “Crazy Car” here.

Next month Arnalds begins a month long European tour before heading Stateside, where she’ll eventually team up with Blonde Redhead for West coast dates. Maybe she’ll run into this guy again.

Music purists side with the Academy, and for reasons fair enough. But even if music supervision is the red-headed step child of the Nielsen family, there’s no denying the lucrative exchange between music and television.

So which shows score high with music fans? “Treme” leads the way for showcasing New Orleans jazz and cajun music–as well as musicians–naturally weaving them into the storyline. Steve Earle (Justin Townes Earle’s dad) was nominated this year for “This City,” a song written for his character, though the show was otherwise ineligible for an Emmy.

“Gossip Girl,” “Weeds” and “True Blood” are also favorites for introducing indie acts like the Mountain Goats, Grizzly Bear, Beach House and White Rabbits to the mainstream. And “Glee,” well, you’ve heard about “Glee.”

From the artist’s perspective, no one talks about selling out anymore. Licensing is arguably the best way to make a living these days, and several talented bands from our roster have licensed their music to television shows. Hear Jace Everett, Fanfarlo and The Pierces explain the impact of television on their careers, and we’ve also included a blooper from Mugison on showcasing your talents the way Dolly Parton does.

Commercial cross promotions are generally as awesome and helpful as that time your dad, in a ham-fisted attempt to score you a prom date, stood on a corner and yelled about how nice, old-fashioned and pretty you are. (Don’t ask me how I know this.)

Leave it to the Cracker Barrel to team up with country singer Rodney “Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)” Atkins to promote each other’s all-American, artery-clogging cheese. In return for Rodney’s  promotion of the interstate-highway huggin’, rockin’ chair sportin’ sad family dining chain, the Barrel will unleash a compendium of his hits (including one previously unreleased song) on an unsuspecting, innocent world.

According to Cracker Barrel’s press release, Rodney likes nothing more than rollin’ his tour bus up to the ol’ Barrel.

“Menu favorites for Rodney include the open roast beef sandwich, biscuits n’ gravy, hash brown casserole (WTF is that? It sounds like deep fried carb bliss on crack with a side of bacon and I think I may need to hit that shit up), chicken n’ dumplins [sic] and of course a ‘big ol’ glass of sweet tea with lemon.

“Like millions of Americans, Rodney enjoys stopping at Cracker Barrel when he’s on the road, sitting for awhile on the front porch, and having a great meal,” the release squawks. “‘I love seeing a ‘Cracker Barrel Up Ahead’ sign on the road ’cause we all know that whenever you stop by, you are guaranteed to get a great meal–just like home,’ said Rodney.”

The crack team of marketing folks at the Barrel clearly know their audience–and that audience loves them some country. They’ve previously teamed up with Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers, Dolly Parton, Alan Jackson and Montgomery Gentry.

Can a Paris Hilton/Carl’s Jr. cross promo be far off? Oh, wait…

Pixtape is a round up of the best new tracks you may have missed from the month of August.

1. Teams vs Star Slinger “Say Please”
Dig if you will this easy breezy throwback soul collaboration between Teams and Star Slinger. We want more.
Download track via Gorilla vs Bear

2. Cee Lo “Fuck You”
The embodiment of smiling through gritted teeth, though Cee Lo reassures it’ll be alright after all.
Download track via Kick Kick Snare

3. Spoek Mathambo “Mshini Wam”
Crank this up and enjoy the last days of summer to the fullest.
Download track via the FADER

4. Jaill “The Stroller”
Riff-based straightforward rock from the latest Sub Pop acquisition (they’re working on that whole world domination thing).
Download track via Indie Rock Cafe

5. Slow Trucks “Gota Move Away”
Honest to goodness indie rock reminiscent of the days before we knew what to call it.
Download track via Tympanogram

6. Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs “For the Summer”
The real standout on the singer-songwriter’s new album God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise is opener “Repo Man,” but since it’s not available as a free download, check this track out from a little deeper into the album.
Download track via From Go to Whoa

7. How to Dress Well “You Won’t Need Me Where I’m Goin’”
One of the most talked-about acts this month, the man behind How to Dress Well releases his debut Love Remains out September 21 via Lefse.
Download track via Neon Musical Insight

8. Black Mountain “The Hair Song”
If you like rock ‘n’ roll Black Mountain is always a safe bet. From their new album Wilderness Heart out September 14.
Download track via One Thirty BPM

9. My Sick Uncle “500 Days of Weezy”
Yes, the latest in amusing hip-hop mashups mixes the indie flick “500 Days of Summer” with Weezy raps.
Download track via Pretty Much Amazing

10. Gold Panda “Snow and Taxis”
While it’s hard to imagine snow at this time of year, this track puts you in that earnest state of mind and reminds that winter will be here before long. There’s also a free mix of previous work on his website.
Download track via the FADER

They released their debut full-length, Nothing Hurts, in May via Sub Pop to positive reviews. Clocking in at a mere 30 minutes, the album was described by critics as “joyful, guile-free surf-grunge” by a band “racing from hook to hook, plowing happily through breakdowns and guitar blasts.”

Starting next month Male Bonding will tour across the States and Canada, playing select shows with Titus Andronicus, Free Energy and Best Coast. Then it’s back to Europe for dates alongside No Age, Crystal Castles, Abe Vigoda, Frankie and the Outs and Blood Red Shoes.

And should you catch them at a show, why not suggest a new tattoo?

Some people seem to spring from their mama’s wombs with briefcase, toque or tuba in hand. For the rest of us, destiny doesn’t manifest itself so specifically.

Take my favorite dairy purveyor, Douglas Quint. For 20 years, the man tirelessly (and thanklessly!) devoted himself to the grubby life of an itinerant musician, sans the street cred. A bassoonist trained at the hoity Manhattan School of Music and the toity Juilliard School, Douglas tooted away with the likes of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the woodwind quintet, Zephyros Winds.

Until he stumbled upon a Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.

Armed with little more than a dream, a wacky palate and an affinity for “slinging the chilly,” he came out of his soft serve closet in June 2009 at Brooklyn Pride. Since then, he and his partner Bryan Petroff dispense dewy, edible dreams topped with toasted curried coconut, wasabi pea dust, Trix cereal, pumpkin butter or olive oil and sea salt, just to name a few. Plain old vanilla is anything but.

A man who goes from tooting in quintets named after what sounds like a Greek God’s gassy blast and spends his days inventing bizarre things to put in your mouth probably just wants wants to have a good time. But there is only one self-expression zone that will never be open for discussion: truck jingles.

Quint told the Village Voice that he simply had to excise the “psychotic” truck bells from his life. And so, Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s came to his rescue, writing a jingle that doesn’t make him want to commit hari kari, or do anything else that would prevent him from slinging my chilly for years to come.

After touring with MGMT, Grizzly Bear, and Deerhunter, the guys are hitting the road on a tour of their own playing dates in the U.K. They also have a few shows in New York City, including CMJ.

We caught up with the guys long before they set a release date, and they told us about their contemporaries and finding their sound.