– Why isn’t there more jazz at jazz festivals? (San Jose Mercury News)
– A look inside the new Irv Gotti label deal with Universal. (NY Times)

– Bob Dylan tells Rolling Stone that the quality of modern sound recordings are "atrocious". "I don’t know anybody who’s made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really." (Reuters)
– The RIAA is pioneering almost automated lawsuits dubbed "spamigation" that according to one source could lead to for example lawsuits against almost everyone who every used Kaaza. (Boing Boing)
R.II.P. – Dave Nives Koch VP of Production and Catalog