More Music Industry News For Tues. 7/28: Tenenbaum Trial, Ticketmaster Probe, Topspin Goes Country & More

• The Tenenbaum trial began yesterday with "tortured" jury selection: The trial of accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum finally got underway just eight hours after the judge tossed dendied his "fair use" defense. But Harvard Law Proffessor Charles Nesson kept things interesting, asking prospective jurors questions like what they thought of his turtleneck and of decriminalizing pot. (ars)
• Lawmakers Want Ticketmaster/Live Nation Probe (Reuters) Today is opening arguments.
• Music Bloggers Roundtable Redux: The music industry’s devil and savior bear the same name: the web. Five years later, the Morning News reconvenes a panel of Music Blogfathers for a look into the future.
• Topspin comes to Nashville with heavy hitter partners. (Nashville Post)
• The Blue Scholars are staying independent with a vengeance, in part, "through a unique partnership formed with Duck Down Records, and Seattle's Caffe Vita Coffee Co." for their upcoming releases OOF! and Bayani Redux. (ProHipHop)
• SXSW online debuts a 10-minute film titled “Remix…A New Way to Engage Fans.”  The team behind the video, MixMatchMusic shows how artists and fans are turning to remixing to connect in a dramatically changed music landscape.  The vidoe goes live today at Noon CDT here.
• Virgin Mobile USA Asks Music Fans to "Book the Band" for the 2009 Virgin Mobile FreeFest. (press release)
• Editorial: In praise of… Spotify (Guardian)