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Pitchfork:

Although Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo don’t seem to have been there in person, that certainly didn’t deter revellers. The town itself only has a population of about 2,000, but 4,000 tickets were sold for the event, reports Gigwise.

The Daily Dot:

The TPP is likely to export some of the worst features of U.S. copyright law to Pacific Rim countries: a broad ban on breaking digital locks on devices and creative works (even for legal purposes), a minimum copyright term of the lifetime of the creator plus seventy years (the current international norm is the lifetime plus fifty years), privatization of enforcement for copyright infringement, ruinous statutory damages with no proof of actual harm, and government seizures of computers and equipment involved in alleged infringement. Moreover, the TPP is worse than U.S. copyright rules: it does not export the many balances and exceptions that favor the public interest and act as safety valves in limiting rightsholders

PSFK:

As reported in Arch Daily, the facilities include performance spaces, private workshops, production, broadcasting, recording studios, rehearsal rooms, the RBMA radio station and 8 collaborative music studio pods which also have large floor-to-ceiling windows looking out onto the workspace. The areas vary in size in order to accommodate different types of collaboration. Wide open areas were created for the benefit of performances and other large gatherings, while smaller rooms and studios allow for a more intimate exchange of ideas.

We doubt this will stop people from recording shitty videos of the shows they attend — when you see a group of professional photographers elbowing each other near the front of the stage, did everyone put their smartphones away? Yeah, that’s what we thought. Full story at The Guardian:

Following their album award win at the Ivor Novellos on Thursday, the band became the first act to utilise the Soundhalo video app at their Brixton Academy show, allowing fans to download tracks to their smartphones immediately after they were performed. It’s hoped the new app will deter audiences from holding their phones in the air to record tracks at gigs

Guardian:

When Steve Wynn moved back to Los Angeles in 1980 after finishing college, he looked at the music being made in his home city and realised he was out of step. “The idea that you’d make music with long, unscripted and unstructured jams. The idea that you were into 60s garage bands. The idea that you’d play one chord until your arm fell off. All the things that we thought were exciting and cool couldn’t have been less fashionable.”

The curious thing is that what Wynn wanted to do with his band the Dream Syndicate turned out to be, albeit briefly, intensely fashionable. Fashionable enough that Prince named his Paisley Park song and label and studio after the psychedelic LA band scene that was known as the “Paisley Underground”, and for it to be a big influence on his album Around the World In a Day.

There aren’t a lot of “rock dudes” to outright respect these days — so many seem nervous of their posture or twee in their headbang or electronic in their riffage — but king Queen Josh Homme is one that deserves a nod of your head when you cross paths on the sidewalk. Queens of the Stone Age’s new song “If I Had a Tail” (off the forthcoming ... Like Clockwork) is just tailgate enough, just doom enough, just danceable enough for everyone to hush up and rock out.