We mentioned earlier this year that Chuck D had stepped up as Ambassador for music crowd-funding site, Sellaband.

Today, Techcrunch are reporting that he's gone a step further and now Public Enemy will fund their next album through their fans on Sellaband.

This'll be a great test of our own hypothesis that crowd-funding can work for creative businesses at any level of their career - not just those trying to establish themselves.

In other news, yesterday the New York Times covered the Catwalk Genius Back a Designer scheme - and hinted at some of the changes we have up our sleeves for the next few months.