The Warp Records online store has closed, Warner Music forces its own artist’s videos offline and Obama is ready to nominate a new FCC Chairman, all in today’s round up!

• WarpMart, the Warp Records webshop, is finished. Users have been notified that all purchases, digital and physical, will now be made through a new version of the Bleep.com website. The site is still in its beta version, however, the change is helpful, as there will now be a single source for the music of Warp Records and related labels. [Electronic Music World]
• Death Cab For Cutie’s official hompage videos, embedded from Youtube, have been taken offline with the message “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG”. The incredible thing is that Warner Music is the band’s own label. This ironic turn symbolizes perfectly the conflict between the major labels’ protectionism and the free-sharing culture. [Mashable]

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Arcade Fire was tapped by Obama to play at the Staff Ball on Wednesday, and they gladly accepted it for this was not the first time the band as performed in support of our new president. To honor Obama, they played a few appropriate Springsteen tunes such as “Born in the U.S.A”and “Intervention.”

Watch the performances after the jump!

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Earlier this morning, I was reading the New York Times and decided it would be interesting to count exactly how many times the word ‘Obama’ was printed on the front page… I got dizzy before the fold. True, our new commander-in-chief is receiving massive amounts of exposure from media that’s saturated with Obama-this and Obama-that, but countless musicians across the globe are working even harder to get the word out about the new Prez.

Some of them are genuinely well-written songs; some are just so absurd it’s hilarious. Out of the many tributes, here are my top ten Obama songs:

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Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland – “Aer OBAMA” from Gold Greendot on Vimeo.