» About ten hours of raw video which features John Lennon smoking pot, playing with his children, and working on songs has sparked a fight between Yoko Ono and a video company, World Wide Video, which claims that it owns the video. Ono claimed she bought the tapes, and so does World Wide Video, somehow.

» Napster has gone DRM-free, becoming the largest online store to do so. Where iTunes only offers DRM-free tracks from EMI artists and some on smaller labels, all of Napster's 6 million tracks are unrestricted. However, Ars reports that a bunch of the tracks have a "MP3 button" but return the error: "Sorry, at the copyright owners' request, the following track(s) are not currently available for purchase." It does look like Napster's unlimited subscription will continue to be available.

» T-Bone Burnett and friends are fighting the good fight for better sound quality. Burnett has started a project called CODE, which looks to put out CD's with better sound quality, the first of which is John Mellencamp's Life, Death, Love and Freedom. The Mellencamp record will come with an audio DVD, a normal audio CD, and iPod-friendly AAC files straight from the master, which should provide a better listening experience than ripped-from-CD's MP3's.

» Word on the street is that Aerosmith's Steven Tyler (I personally love him for his beautiful work in Armageddon) is headed over to rehab, after being thought to be clean for 20 years.

» The Rest, in short: Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh goes on tour with his postcard-sized art; Creepasaurus R. Kelly's trial starts; Boy band manager Lou Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a Florida judge for getting money in all the wrong ways; Steven Curtis Chapman's youngest daughter is killed by car; Genesis releases big fucking 3 disc DVD somethingorother through Wal-Mart alone; Red Hot Chili Peppers disband for at least a year; Madonna shows her documentary at Cannes (and plans to play a two-song private gig); Sonic Youth reveals Starbucks-only compilation; Bob Dylan songs get translated and played in Gaelic; American Eagle plans festival with smaller ticket prices; Blur member to compete on some American-Idol-for-conductors show; My Chemical Romance plan march against their misrepresentation in the Daily Mail; Miley Cyrus preps her first record to be released under her own name; David Bowie says he has not in fact given permission to use his songs in a musical (as was reported here); UK summer festival cancelled because of credit problems; "Rock Revolution" set to challenge "Rock Band"; Kanye and co. get sued for jazz samples; Scorcesse ditches Marley biopic.