• Piggy D'Amour of pioneering metal band Voivod died on Saturday at the age of 45.

• Wikipedia's feature article of the day yesterday was this lengthy entry on Iron Maiden.

• Sticking with the English but getting quite a bit older, here's a profile on Mick Jagger at The Guardian. One thing in this article jumped out at me, and it's something that Lessig's crowd should note: The Stones "were outraged to learn that Germany's Christian Democrat leader, Angela Merkel, had appropriated their Seventies hit 'Angie' for her election campaign rallies." This isn't a fair use issue -- Merkel's camp insists it got permission from the German music distribution rights agency to use the song -- but it foreshadows a day in which fair use could be used in many ways the authors and rights owners would hate. Can you think of any artists who would like to hear their songs played at a David Duke rally? Me neither.

• New at eMusic is an album that's exactly the kind of thing you want when you've got a set number of songs to download each month. Faust's 1971 self-titled album comes it at over 44 minutes of incredible krautrock -- and it's only three tracks. After I downloaded those I got 46 minute of John Cage and David Tudor -- two tracks.

• Great feuds in music. (Blogcritics)

• Dylan looks back with PBS documentary, CDs, books. (Reuters)

• N.Y. Hands Garfunkel Another Pot Charge. (Billboard.com) Joint in the ashtray. I'm surprised Billboard didn't take this opportunity to throw us a pun. The Boston Globe couldn't pass up the opportunity. "Another Work Of Art" says its headline. E! Online's pun was better: "Troubled Waters For Garfunkel." The Arizona Republic had a funny headline: "Garfunkel suffers Woodstock flashback."