Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but with new albums on the way from Arcade Fire (likely), LCD Soundsystem (def.), Spoon (yup), Leonard Cohen (?), and M.I.A. next year, it’s shaping up to be an epic ‘10. The anticipation for M.I.A.’s upcoming third LP is particularly high, as it will have been three years since her last album and the post-Pineapple Express explosion of “Paper Planes” (among other feats) has brought her into another realm of notoriety.

Pedstrian.tv got Diplo, a producer on both of M.I.A.’s previous albums, on the phone recently and we have our first quote about what Ms. Arulpragasam has in store:

When the trailer for Beyond Ipanema, an upcoming documentary about the history and influence of Brazilian music, which features interviews with M.I.A., David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, and Seu Jorge, came out last month, little was known beyond what I just mentioned (watch the trailer at The Daily Swarm). A lot more details have been revealed, however, and it appears that the recently reunited Os Mutantes play a starring role in the flick.

“The story of the 70’s psychedelic band from São Paulo is one of the highlights of Beyond Ipanema,” a description on the film’s site reads. “When production started, they had been retired for almost 30 years… The film’s crew witnessed their 2006 American tour, which culminated with a show for 30,000 people in Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival.”

In another chance encounter while filming, the crew managed to capture the sale of the most expensive Brazilian record: “An extremely rare 45” copy of a 1966 recording by the band O’Seis,” an early formation of—you guessed it—Os Mutantes. The record sold for $5,000, which isn’t quite what that dude got for his rare Velvet Underground vinyl, but maybe the seller in the film had a crap eBay rating or something.

The film’s still making the festival rounds and doesn’t have a wide release date yet, but P4K’s got the first track “Teclar” here, from Os Mutantes’ Haih, due out next week.

It’s been a busy year for M.I.A. (performing 9 months pregnant at the Grammys, having a child, Coachella, making the Time 100, getting an Oscar nod, etc.), so it’s a perfect time for the singer to step out of the limelight for a bit and do what normal folks do, like going to the Apple Store. Maya Arulpragasam may have been incognito when she ventured out into the world of computer retail, but that just opened the door to some random criticism.

In a Q&A with Spinner’s Benjy Eisen, M.I.A. said that she could’ve written songs like “Paper Planes” for her first album, Arular, but “the kids” wanted her to make a dance album. “And when I made Kala,” she added. “I remember going to an Apple Store and I was trying to get my computer fixed. There was a guy who didn’t know who I was, but I had an M.I.A. sticker on my laptop and he said, ‘Oh, you listen to M.I.A?’ and I went, ‘Yeah.’ And he goes, ‘The first album is so much better because it was dancey and the second album wasn’t.’ So I was just like, ‘All right. Well, I didn’t mind it. I thought it was all right.’”

This wouldn’t be a big deal, but M.I.A. went on to imply that she takes anonymous public opinion to heart when considering her next musical direction. “Paper Planes” may have won a Grammy, rocked this year’s charts, and made M.I.A. a household name, but “the kids” still just want to dance.

When we announced that multiple sources reported M.I.A. gave her baby the most googleable name ever, the singer took to her blog, saying reports that her baby’s name is “Ickitt” were false. Well it turns out the original source (Latina magazine) probably overheard the actually name and just spelled it wrong. Anyway, here’s it is: Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman.

In other M.I.A. news, she is replacing Amy Winehouse in the Saturday night (April 18) timeslot for Coachella after Winehouse was denied a U.S. work permit after being charged with assaulting a fan in the U.K.