More Music News Mon. 8/10/09: Spiral Frog, Slight Of Guy Hands, Team Tennenbaum & More

• Inside the short, troubled life of music start-up Spiral Frog. (CNet) After an in depth look at the failed startup, writer Greg Sandoval then goes beyond Spiral Frog with other examples that ad supported music is a troubled revenue model.
• Guy Hands, the head of Terra Firma which owns EMI, is coming under scrutiny for using a tax haven to avoid payments to the UK government. (NY Times)
• Team Tenenbaum to fight on for those "RIAA has screwed over". Ars Technica talks to the Joel Tenenbaum defense team about their plans to keep fighting the case, why they refused to settle, and their hope to file a class-action lawsuit against the RIAA in the future.
• Digital Audio Insider shares his band's latest Last.fm royalty statement.
• Interview: Tablo talks digital music in South Korea (Music Ally)
• Falling values are poison for venture capital. (NY Times)
• Some interesting editorial letters from the RIAA, A2IM and just plan fans reacting to "Swan Songs", a recent NY Times piece on the demise of the music industry.
• Denzyl Feigelson: Living in the Application Age (MidemNet)
• YouTube Music Community Manager’s Favorite Videos of All Time (Epicenter)
• Why MySpace Is Launching So Much Original Studio Content (paidContent)