Shouldn't Cat Stevens sue Joe Satriani then? ;)

Quoted: Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens agreed on Monday that the Coldplay song, "Viva La Vida" sounds like one of his 1973 songs, but he stopped short of saying he would sue for plagiarism.
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U.S. guitarist Joe Satriani has sued Coldplay, accusing the British band of copyright infringement. He claims substantial original portions of his song "If I Could Fly" are recycled in "Viva La Vida" and is seeking damages.

It's stunts like this that make PETA just seem like a bunch of mental cases. They are never going to be taken truly seriously until they stop acting like hyper-critical loons.

Quoted: Just because they named their new CD "Yes," does not mean that British electro-pop duo, the Pet Shop Boys, will agree to just about anything.
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The band has turned down a request from an animal rights group to rename itself the Rescue Shelter Boys.
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The organization, the People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA), sent a letter to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe acknowledging that its request, at first blush, might appear "bizarre."
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But, by changing its name, the band could raise awareness at every tour stop of the "cramped, filthy conditions" that breeders keep animals in before selling them to pet stores, PETA said in its letter.

T and I got together just 1 year before Kurt died ... now I'm feeling old! I remember seeing this news on MTV and just being shocked. When we first moved here two years later, we enjoyed the cable access show "Kurt Cobain was Murdered".

Quoted: The park bench facing Lake Washington is covered with flowers, poems, a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and graffiti.

I can't wait for the song list to come out!

Quoted: Fans of The Beatles who have always wanted to sing alongside John and Paul, or rock with George and Ringo, will finally get their chance on September 9 when the band's much-anticipated videogame hits the shelves.

I just can't believe this guy is 35 ... he seemed like such a kid a few years ago on Rock Star.

Quoted: The lead singer of Australian rock band INXS, J.D. Fortune, who was picked to replace the late Michael Hutchence in a contest on a reality TV show, said he has been fired without warning from the band.

Quoted: U.S. cult hit television show "Flight of the Conchords" follows the travails of a marginally talented musical duo from New Zealand trying to make it in New York City, but in reality the pair are far from struggling.
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Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie already have one Grammy, have been nominated for another and the second series of their Emmy-nominated show returned to HBO cable network this month after an absence of more than a year.
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James Bobin, co-creator and executive producer, said the second series was delayed by the 14-week writers strike, which ended in February last year, and "the boat to New Zealand," chimed in McKenzie at the show's red carpet launch this week.
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The duo's debut has been nominated for a Grammy for best comedy album, but McKenzie joked -- in the deadpan way the band are known for -- that they don't really need another award.
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"We've already got one now, we're pretty happy with that," he said. "It's a great statue."

I'm not sure if music and books can really go together for me. I always just end up with strange associations.

Quoted: Listening to music and reading fiction seem to me to be almost mutually exclusive activities nowadays, but the two didn't always have such a distant relationship. Bards are normally depicted with lyres for a reason, while Homer's famous request in the first line of the Iliad that the Muse should "sing" to him of Achilles's wrath wasn't just meant figuratively. Plenty of classics scholars are convinced that those who performed the poem sang it, with musical accompaniment. This belief has prompted quite a few attempts to recreate early bardic performances, which – in their inadvertent hilarity - show just how alien the idea of a poem sung to non-specific music is to us today. (As well as the folly of trying to sing the pitch accent.
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As for novels, forget it. Even music that doesn't ask too much – or can at least be enjoyed in the background – can cause problems. Brian Eno's haunting Music For Airports has ruined PG Wodehouse for me in the past. Almost as much as the noise it was supposed to neuter: a woman (old, I might add) yelling down her mobile about the weather. The happy tinkling of Chopin has rendered absurd grisly scenes in Cain's Book and tragedy in A Farewell To Arms. At the other extreme, I defy anyone to listen to Blonde On Blonde and read Pynchon at the same time without feeling weird.

Just read it.

Quoted: What Frank Sinatra taught me about art, innocence and experience.
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Once upon a couple of weeks ago ...

I like the idea that rap and golf both started in Scotland ... j/k.

Quoted: The theory, argued by Prof. Ferenc Szasz of the University of New Mexico, is that modern rap music derives from the ancient Caledonian art of "flyting", in which rival poets hurled obscene rhyming insults at each other. From the Telegraph:
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Scottish slave owners took the tradition with them to the United States, where it was adopted and developed by slaves, emerging many years later as rap. Professor Szasz is convinced there is a clear link between this tradition for settling scores in Scotland and rap battles, which were famously portrayed in Eminem's 2002 movie 8 Mile.
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The more conventional theory is that the roots of rap music trace back to ancient West African poets called "griots".