Jesca Hoop and organic lentil soup

Whole Foods have a pretty good programme (ripped off from Starbucks, naturally) whereby they select an artists they deem up and coming and promote the butt out of them in their organicish-at-premium-prices US supermarkets.

They've just signed up the wonderful Jesca Hoop for this boost.

It's a place in the US that sells Haloumi, and you'll hear Jesca Hoop while shopping. How good is that?

Here's a live version of Enemy. Go shopping for more:

Organic pop sales

Following on from the success - or, perhaps, not quite so much success - of Starbucks' CD sales, now the US supermarket chain Whole Foods is launching a 'discover new artists' campaign, flogging CDs from acts starting with Greg Laswell.

Laswell does, at least, have the beard-and-sweater of the type of person who happily shops at Whole Foods, paying the shocking mark-up on produce accounted for by some sort of woolly-lovely idea that driving to one massive store is, somehow, more kind to the planet than driving to your nearest supermarket and buying the same stuff at lower prices.