Jack knew it the whole time!!

With the Chrysler news hitting Detroit hard, it makes me think that The White Stripes had it right the whole time.

Pirates Going To Jail

Via Billboard.com
A Swedish court has found four men behind the BitTorrent tracker the Pirate Bay guilty of assisting in making copyrighted material available and sentenced each of them to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay damages of 30 million kronor ($3.54 million) to the film and music industries by Stockholm district court.

The Swedish and international music industry has welcomed today's (April 17) verdict against Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde. The Pirate Bay is the most notorious site used for searching P2P downloads of music and films, claiming 22 million users in February.

The court found the defendants guilty of making 33 specific files accessible for illegal P2P file-sharing. It ordered that damages must be paid to companies including all the majors and film studios MGM and 20th Century Fox.

"The trial of the operators of the Pirate Bay was about defending the rights of creators, confirming the illegality of the service and creating a fair environment for legal music services that respect the rights of the creative community," said IFPI chairman and CEO John Kennedy in a statement. "Today's verdict is the right outcome on all three counts. The court has also handed down a strong deterrent sentence that reflects the seriousness of the crimes committed. This is good news for everyone, in Sweden and internationally, who is making a living or a business from creative activity and who needs to know their rights will protected by law."

Helen Smith, executive chair of independent labels body IMPALA, added: "This is music to the ears of the thousands of small independents and artists who produce the majority of new releases today. It demonstrates a real understanding of the dilemma that if no one pays for music today who will make the exciting new music of tomorrow?"

"This may be the verdict of a Swedish court, but it is a great outcome for British music," said Geoff Taylor, chief executive of U.K. trade body the BPI. "Criminal sites like Pirate Bay seriously undermine investment in music and in legal online services and do nothing to reward artists or creators. We hope that this decision will encourage British music fans to steer clear of these parasitic illegal download services and support the future of British music by downloading legally."

However, in a statement on its Web site, the Pirate Bay made clear it will appeal the ruling. "It will not be the final decision," said the statement. "It will have no real effect on anything besides setting the tone for the debate."

In a Twitter posting, Sunde claimed that "nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theater for the media."

"It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release," he added, claiming that he received a leak of the verdict last night.

Sunde took part in an online press conference at 1pm CET, so it appears the defendants' prison sentence is pending their appeal. They all denied the charges on the basis that the Pirate Bay did not actually host copyrighted content.

Carl Lundstrom's attorney Per Samuelson said he was shocked by the verdict and the severity of the sentence.

"That's outrageous, in my point of view. Of course we will appeal," he said. "This is the first word, not the last. The last word will be ours."

Swedish Web site the Local reports that public prosecutor Håkan Roswall stated that the Pirate Bay produced annual earnings of around 10 million kronor ($1.2 million) from advertising on the site.

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50 Years of the WB

So Warner Brothers have dug through the vaults and pulled out some classics and had some of their active roster rework them in Covered, A Revolution In Sound:Warner Bros. Records. The album is not really a new concept but there are some great highlights include Mastodon covering Just Got Paid, The Black Keys doing justice to Captain Beefheart's Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles, and The Flaming Lips psych'in out Borderline.

Check the The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs

The flaming lips Borderline
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Wavves Live 2-06-09

"With his voice cracked and his hair looking like a trailer trash experiment gone hideously right, Wavves leader Nathan Williams offers 18 minutes of soft-to-loud noise-pop live from Brooklyn's Market Hotel."
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The Pitchfork live series is actually pretty solid including full shows from Janes Addiction, Bon Iver, Titus Andronicus, King Khan, Jay Reatard, Black Mountain, Cut Copy, and many more.

F13 Mix Tape

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With the Night

The Hold Steady - Chips Ayoy!

Lovage - Book of the Month

Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul

The Gories - Thunderbird ESQ

Love - Little Red Book

Love - My Little Red Book
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Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire

Jay Reatard - Oh It's Such a Shame

The Dead Weather

• Third Man Records, the imprint on which Jack White releases all of his music including The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, now has a physical location in downtown Nashville. White's new Third Man Records building serves as the company HQ and houses the label's offices plus a vinyl record store, photo studio, dark room and performance stage.
• In celebration of the building's opening, the label’s newest rock outfit, The Dead Weather, delivered their first public performance with a set including songs from their forthcoming album, Horehound. The band, fronted by Alison Mosshart (known to music fans as one half of The Kills) includes The Raconteurs' Jack Lawrence on bass, Dean Fertita from Queens Of The Stone Age on guitar and Jack White on drums and vocals. In addition to playing, White also served as producer on Horehound. Recording took place earlier this year in just three weeks at the newly constructed Third Man Studio, designed from the ground up by White. Third Man plans a June release for the album.
• Around 150 fans, family and friends attended the Third Man Records grand opening event and exchanged their letter-pressed invitations for limited edition 7" vinyl pressings of The Dead Weather's debut single "Hang You From The Heavens" (b/w a stealth cover of Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?"). The Dead Weather hand painted each of the 150 7" records that also included a different photo booth strip of the band members. Downloads of these two songs are now available exclusively through iTunes.
• http://www.thedeadweather.com/